God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

by Hannah Brown
God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

by Hannah Brown

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Overview

A New York Times bestseller.

“My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it’s in the messes where we learn the most—as long as we slow down enough to realize what God is trying to show us.”

Suddenly in the spotlight, twenty-four-year-old Hannah Brown realized that she wasn’t sure what she wanted. After years of competing in beauty pageants, and then starring on The Bachelorette and Dancing with the Stars, she had become incredibly visible. There she was, in her early twenties, with millions around the world examining and weighing in on her every decision. She found herself wondering what it would mean to live on her terms. What it would mean to stop seeking approval from others and decide—for the first time—what it was she wanted from her own life.

An honest and earnest examination of her own mid-twenties, God Bless This Mess is a memoir that doesn’t claim to have all the answers. Hannah knows she doesn’t have all the answers. What she does have is the insight of someone who has spent critical years of her youth under public scrutiny. Thus what emerges is a quarter-life memoir that speaks to the set of difficulties young women face, and how to move through them with grace. By pushing against her engrained need to seek approval, and learning how to think critically about her own goals and desires, Hannah inspires others to do the same—and to embrace the messiness that comes hand-in-hand with self-discovery (even if that sometimes means falling flat on your face).

Using her time on The Bachelorette as a launching pad, Hannah doesn’t shy away from the most painful experiences of her life: moments when her faith was tested, when she feared it was lost, and the moments when she reclaimed it on national television. “And Jesus still loves me.” Fans will be inspired by the never-before-told stories: the ones about facing depression and anxiety during her pageant years, the ways in which therapy and journaling have proven to be a saving grace, and the previously private moments—both at home and on television—that have shaped the star’s outlook.

Honest and emotionally urgent, God Bless This Mess is a reminder that true growth doesn’t come without strife—and it’s through those dark, messy moments that self-acceptance and love can bloom.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798200746750
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/23/2021
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author
HANNAH BROWN starred on season 15 of ABC’s hit reality series The Bachelorette and went on to win season 28 of Dancing with the Stars. The beauty pageant titleholder and winner of Miss Alabama USA 2018 is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Say What You Feel 9

2 Put a Smile on Your Face 19

3 Stay Inside the Lines 31

4 Sweet Home Alabama 37

5 The Man at the Door 53

6 Something Big 65

7 Guard Your Heart 77

8 Dreaming of Miss America 89

9 Legs 97

10 Little Miss Everything 103

11 Boundaries Matter 113

12 Breakup Skinny 129

13 What You Don't Know Might Hurt You 141

14 Welcome to Bachelor Nation 155

15 Skrrrrrip! 169

16 What Happens in Windmills 177

17 Losing Trust 191

18 Losing Faith 205

19 Dancing with the Scars 213

20 Heels in My Hands 231

21 Everything Changes 241

22 Day by Day 259

23 New Beginnings 267

Author's Note 275

Acknowledgments 283

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