Get This Skin Off Me — A Faith-Based Companion for Living with Eczema

If you feel unseen... you need to read this.

Get This Skin Off Me is an insightful, refreshing booknal — a must-read on the journey to be seen. Not just the skin. The person inside it — the anxiety, the shame, the exhaustion, the faith, the hiding, the showing up anyway, and the long, honest journey toward something better. 

JC Love has lived with severe eczema for over forty years. She knows the nights where the sheets stuck to the skin. The midnight A&E visit, the prescription she couldn't fill, the closed pharmacy, the street at 1am — and the weeping. The meeting room she had to leave because the carpet triggered a flare. The boots worn all summer because nothing else would fit over the swelling. The invitations declined. The invisible tax of appearing fine while the body was quietly in crisis.

She's writing this from the other side of all of it. And this is the book she needed then.

Who this book is for

Adults living with eczema — if you have spent years managing this condition in silence, hiding your skin at work and calculating which clothes won't hurt, this is the companion that tells the whole truth and holds you through it.

Teenagers and young people — the original 2012 account of growing up with severe eczema speaks directly to young people in the middle of that journey right now. Parents, teachers, youth workers: give it to them with a note. They will know what it means.

People hiding their skin — the boots no one asks about, the long sleeves in summer, the constant calculation of what to cover and what to risk. This book names that experience in full, without shame, and with warmth.

Those living with eczema-related anxiety and low mood — honest about the psychological weight the medical system routinely underestimates: the hypervigilance about triggers, the shame spiral after a flare, the toll of a condition with no predictable end.

Christians with chronic illness — the Spiritual Warfare section is unlike anything else in the eczema literature. Honest about praying for healing and not receiving it immediately, about the militancy faith sometimes requires and the submission it always requires — with full testimony of what healing eventually looked like.

Therapists, counsellors and mental health practitioners — the lived interior of the experience that no clinical paper provides.

Carers, parents and family members — for everyone who has shared the eczema journey and not always had words. It helps the people who love someone with eczema understand what that person is carrying.

Organisations working with women — a powerful resource for women managing chronic skin conditions, addressing professional life, self-image, mental health and faith. Available in bulk for organisational orders.

What's inside

Part One: The Beginning — The original, unedited 2012 account of a childhood with severe eczema: hospitalisations, bandages, school, adolescence. Raw, honest, preserved exactly as written.

Between the Parts: The Young Woman — The doctor who stepped back. The wig. The shout across the road. What held her through it.

Part Two: The Middle Years — The professional years. The meeting room. The gowns and boots. The hotel sheets. The invisible tax of appearing functional whilst privately managing a body in crisis.

Part Three: The Spiritual Warfare — Naaman in the Jordan. The Ten Lepers. What faith in the middle of chronic suffering actually looks like — loud, broken, militant, submitted. And what it produced.

Part Four: The Testimony — Healed. What she knows now. What she would tell younger her. The brilliance birthed from pain.

Appendix: Forty Years of Practical Wisdom — Triggers and how to track them. Clothing and fabrics. The home environment. Food and the skin. What worked. A note for carers and medical practitioners.

Pause Here reflection sections and Your Page journal spaces throughout — prompts, prayer starters, declarations, trigger logs and skin-tracking, embedded where they're needed most.

"I need you to know: there is another side. I am living there."
— JC Love

Paperback: £9.99 | eBook: £7.99

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