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   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Daumari | Dec 28, 2023 |   I enjoyed Hannah Brown's season of the Bachelorette. Girl was REAL and HONEST....or so it seemed. Let me put it this way, she had a personality (unlike many who are on the ABC reality dating show). However, often underneath the happy, bubbly exterior, Hannah was battling her demons. Demons that I could actually relate to. Sure, not the beauty pageant stuff and being told she was fat. (When sorry she is the furthest thing from fat). But anxiety and depression, wanting people's approval, struggles in her faith and relationship with God, desiring perfection of herself, not feeling good enough or deserving enough. THOSE are life experiences that I understand. Hannah talks bluntly. I don't know why other reviews on here think it's poorly written. I felt like Hannah was having her confessional moments. I also did the audiobook and hearing everything in her own words.....I felt in her living room with a glass of wine. I think these is a thing to be learned in the book. (Beyond JUST how many times she and Tyler did communicate after the Bachelorette [he had been my pick for her] OR how obsessed with her Pilot Pete seemed to be.....) Finding our center, finding grace to BE in Christ.... So very pleasantly surprised with this read. (  ) msgabbythelibrarian | Jun 11, 2023 | I'm a bachelor fan & will read just about anything put out by the participants at some point or another. I loved Hannah from the show & DWTS, but I was a little skeptical about the book primarily because of the whole religious aspect. Surprisingly, it didn't throw me off or make me lose interest, I really enjoyed reading Hannah's story, and it was fat more deep and complex that what the media has portrayed her life to be. Glad to have read it! ( ) Nlandwehr | Jan 6, 2023 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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 mostā??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 decideā??for the first timeā??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 sameā??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 momentsā??both at home and on televisionā??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 strifeā??and it's through those dark, messy moments that self-acceptance and No library descriptions found. |
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I generally feel a little suspicious when someone young writes a memoir, especially when they're younger than me. That's not to say young people can't do amazing things, but it feels a little weird for youth to impart wisdom from experience (even if it IS from the hot house environment of putting your feelings on display via national television).
I've read a few Bachelor-adjacent books but not all, and I did like this more than Andi Dorfman's tell-all/empowerment books, possibly a combination of familiarity (I've watched the seasons Hannah describes but Andi was before I started following the franchise) and the vulnerability on display by Hannah Brown. I don't generally read faith-based memoirs/self-help, so I couldn't tell you how well this holds up to the genre.
Mostly though, my main takeaway is that we should place as high a priority on mental health as we do physical, and instead of "toughing it out" or challenging yourself to prove something, it's 100% okay and even necessary to go to therapy to unpack trauma and anxiety with a trained professional. I feel like Rachel Lindsay's [b:Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths|57895042|Miss Me With That Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths|Rachel Lindsay|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1619725929l/57895042._SY75_.jpg|90699022] was a bit more self-reflective, especially thinking about the broader impacts of putting yourself on display and what you may represent, and Hannah's whoopsie with the N word gets a couple pages but ma'am, if you spent time doing the homework why did I not see MORE of it at the time and since?? Hannah interests me as a Bachelor Nation archetype of a lot of girls I knew in college- the GRITS (Girls Raised In The South) who had the space to figure out who they were for the first time in college but clung to the familiar because it was safe, whether that be the good ol' boys or the antebellum-soaked traditions they'd never thought to question before. The Bachelor-DWTS period was a harsh instructor, and I hope she gets the space and privacy to do discover herself and grow away from the camera. (