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The reality is that LGBTQ+ people face challenges at disproportionally higher rates than their straight counterparts - drug use, sex work, and financial instability can be an unfortunate result. My privilege as a young cis white man whose parents weren't going to let me drown afforded me the ability to make those mistakes and live to talk about it.

— Jonathan Van Ness Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

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Life is so much a daily exercise in learning to love yourself and forgive yourself, over and over.

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

Being normal is being completely unique, because nobody's the same.

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There are a million ways to reach recovery. Don't let anyone tell you you can't find a way that works for you.

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Just because we mess up doesn't mean all the lessons we learned are undone. Healing can be imperfect.

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My philosophy was very much to embrace yourself and love what you are, instead of making you something you're not. Refine what you already have - don't change it at its core. That's always been my whole ethos.

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