Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by

18 reviews

bibliobekka's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

mxbenjaminrose's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Dementia

just_nefariousness's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, and Dysphoria

victoria_lyle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Death of parent

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

It feels wrong to give this a rating. This memoir is raw and at times confronting as well as being the bright, inspiring JVN you might have seen on Gay of Thrones or Queer Eye. This is a truly vulnerable vision of his life and all its trauma and triumph. 
The audiobook experience was lovely, it sort of feels like you're having a chat. I love that when faced with sharing a particularly difficult part of his life story there is an interlude consisting of a report he wrote as a child. It is an incredible book but there is a lot of pain in here so I'm sure JVN would be ok with me saying, if the discussions of childhood sexual abuse, addiction, self-destructive behaviour or disordered eating are triggering for you it is not just ok but important that you practice self-love and don't retraumatise yourself through this story. 

It is fantastic and well worth the read. Thank you Jonathan Van Ness for sharing your story and I hope that it proved that yes, your fans will still love you if they see all your parts.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Medical content

rosalind's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

rebeckareads's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Rape

brittstagram's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death