God Bless This Mess Quotes

“Talking about trauma matters. Talking about trauma heals.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“I am enough. I am loved. No more, no less. That’s all that matters.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“Body image haunts so many of us. I am learning to love the feeling I get when I know I’m healthy, and being grateful for that, and being comfortable in the body I have. I’m proud of my athleticism.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“Where were the women who made big dreams come true, but who were also moms and nurturers? The fact that I didn’t see them in my own world made me wonder if thinking big wasn’t something I should do.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“The more time I’ve spent thinking and reading about it, the more I’ve come to discover that lots of people dream of a purpose in life that doesn’t fit into a certain box. And I think we need to start talking about that. A passion or a purpose can be so much more abstract and different than we think. Feeling a call to some purpose doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be a preacher. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be a teacher or a doctor or a lawyer or a banker.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“Because of the image I projected, I was expected to do good. When I messed up, I never heard, “It’s okay, we all make mistakes.” It was, “Hannah! You know better!” At least, that’s how I heard it—no matter what they said.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“How much easier would all the difficult periods and circumstances of my life have been if I had walked into them with the simplicity of knowing that Jesus had me?”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments