![]() ![]() Our inventory is made up of publishers’ excess books, which are all unread and guaranteed to be in excellent condition. ![]() 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. “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. 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. By pushing against her ingrained 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). 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. What she does have is the insight of someone who has spent critical years of her youth under public scrutiny. Hannah knows she doesn’t have all the answers. 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.Īn 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. She found herself wondering what it would mean to live on her terms. There she was, in her early twenties, with millions around the world examining and weighing in on her every decision. After years of competing in beauty pageants, and then starring on The Bachelorette and Dancing with the Stars, she had become incredibly visible. Suddenly in the spotlight, twenty-four-year-old Hannah Brown realized that she wasn’t sure what she wanted. 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.” Off the dance floor, we were not compatible people.“My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Our chemistry on the stage led to the press speculating that we had something more going on between us, but we didn’t. “As a dance partner, standing strong, I came to trust Alan more and more every week. “Alan kept saying, ‘You have to trust me if we’re going to do this.’ But trust was the last thing I was prepared to give a man I’d just met,” she wrote. She also described her relationship with Bersten as the most volatile of the season. In her book, Brown described rehearsals for the ABC series as “brutal,” citing trust issues from The Bachelorette and her pageant past as roadblocks. It’s always been for entertainment,” the 27-year-old former Miss īrown won the 2019 season of DWTS with partner Alan Bersten. “My life has been shared very openly vulnerably through a lens of a television show. I felt like I was the Bachelorette that didn’t even finish her season with somebody then kind of got burned after that again.”īachelor Nation viewers looking for answers should look no further than Hannah Brown’s new book, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life’s Best (and Worst) Moments. I felt so much pressure on myself because I felt like I needed that win because I felt like a loser. But I wish I could do it again and just have fun. “I’m like, ‘Wow, that was a really incredible experience and I will always be thankful for it.’ And there were moments of really living in it. I’ve gotten farther away from it now, it also makes me sad ,” the 28-year-old former Miss Alabama exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the book’s Tuesday, November 23, release. ![]() “I desperately needed a distraction because I wasn’t going to deal with, you know, how I was really feeling. In God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life’s Best (and Worst) Moments, the former Bachelorette gets real about her childhood, Dancing With the Stars journey and N-word scandal. ![]() Hannah Brown’s book didn’t just cover her Bachelor Nation journey. ![]()
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