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

A New York Times bestseller. "My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the messes where&nbsp;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.

Brown, Hannah

Arts & Photography

Harper

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 thatdoesn’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.

Parenting & Relationships

Harper Paperbacks

"My life was a complete a 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." A life-long journaler, Hannah Brown knows the value of writing down her thoughts every day. Journaling has helped her process the events of her life, cope with adversity and depression, and endure living in the spotlight of international fame. It is, in large part, how she learned to embrace her imperfections, cherish her mistakes, and become stronger and more independent--even as millions around the world scrutinized and criticized her every decision. By leaning into her journaling practice, Hannah found peace, remained grounded, and not only came to accept but to love the messy parts of herself and her life. Hannah knows intimately that journaling is a powerful spiritual tool to process, reflect, and find perspective in the toughest of times. In the companion to her memoir God Bless This Mess, she encourages you to chronicle your own journey to self-discovery. Hannah provides guided prompts to help you develop a daily practice and shares excerpts from her own personal journals, questions from her own therapist, activities and crafts to cultivate self-care, quotes, lyrics, bible verses, full-color photos, and more. Beautifully designed and portable, God Bless This Messy Journal is your unique private space to record your intentions, find your truths, honor your feelings, and learn to cherish your whole being, especially the messy parts.&nbsp;

God Bless This Messy Journal: A Guide to Embracing the Beautiful, Messy You

Self-Help

Journal Writing

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Air Fryer Cookbook: 100 Simple Delicious Recipes and Golden Tips to Success - Frying, Baking, Grilling and Roasting (Cookbook Recipes, Food, Healthy, Gourmet, Beginners Guide)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Independently published

This book is an exploration of how this remarkably efficient and familiar form of gathering operates, in different times and places, and how it comes to be recognised by those who experience or deploy it. 
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<li>Throws the spotlight on the epistemological and ontological basis of coming together through formal meetings of different kinds</li> <li>Demonstrates how meetings - socially and institutionally prescribed spaces for coming together - are important and ubiquitous organisational forms in various political, religious and economic settings </li> <li>Shows how meetings feature prominently in classic anthropological accounts, and in more contemporary ethnography, particularly in relation to studies of documents, organizations, policy, development, politics, and science and technology</li> </ul>

Meetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy and Assembly (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Yarrow, Thomas

Reed, Adam

Anthropology

Wiley/Blackwell

If I Could Tell You

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Mistakes We Never Made

<div> From The Bachelorette star and New York Times bestselling author Hannah Brown comes an irrepressibly funny romantic comedy about two frenemies on the verge of making the biggest mistake of all . . . Emma Townsend can sum up her situationship with hot-as-hell romantic red flag Finn Hughes in one word: almost. They almost dated in high school. They almost hooked up after college. They almost took things too far one magical night. Their whole story is one series of "almosts" and "nearlys," and now they just kind of can't stand each other. Like, at all. But this weekend, one of their mutuals is getting married . . . and Emma and Finn will have to pretend they don't remember how disastrous it was the last time they were in a room together. Emma's doing a stellar job of playing it cool--until the bride goes missing. Now, with two days before the wedding, Emma and Finn are hitting the road in a sweet vintage sports car in hopes of salvaging someone else's happily-ever-after. Yet somewhere between Emma's breakfast burrito throw down, a high-stakes kayak chase (it can happen), and an outrageous Vegas detour, these sworn enemies are crossing more than just state lines. As old feelings spark once more, Emma begins to question whether risking your heart is ever really a mistake. </div>

Genre Fiction

Forever

The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain

Finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indie Award for General Fiction. Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent-- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we are to another human being, even a beloved sister, that's what we are: close-- we all have our own secrets to keep.

Look After Her (Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series)

Inanna Publications

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