In Defense of Poor Choices

Jessalyn Jackson
Invisible Illness
Published in
3 min readJan 22, 2019

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You’ve heard it a million times I’m sure. The saying that induces a flurry of emotions and none of them satisfying. The phrase meant to encourage and inspire us, “you must learn from your mistakes”, and it certainly does just that.

But what if there is more to it than learning that next time you should fuck up less or in a different way. It’s the trial and error thing that gets me. As inescapable as it may be, I…

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Jessalyn Jackson
Invisible Illness

Jessalyn is a psychotherapist who works primarily with adolescents in the greater Seattle area on anxiety, trauma, and depression.