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 and refreshing booknal 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.

In another exceptional book by Giddymoose...

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 floor-length gowns. 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, calculating which clothes won't hurt, explaining (or refusing to explain) why you can't come to things — this book was written for you. JC Love has been that person, in every version of it, for four decades. This is the companion that tells the whole truth and holds you through it.

Teenagers and young people with eczema

The original 2012 account of growing up with severe eczema — childhood hospitalisations, school, adolescence, the shame of it — speaks directly to young people who are in the middle of that journey right now. Parents, teachers, and youth workers: this book is for the young person in your life who needs to know someone else has been through this and made it. 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. If any part of your life is organised around managing what other people see — this book names that experience in full, without shame, and with warmth. You are not behind. You are not failing. You are allowed to be exactly where you are.

Those living with eczema-related anxiety and depression

Chronic skin conditions carry a psychological and emotional weight that the medical system routinely underestimates. This book addresses eczema anxiety directly — the hypervigilance about triggers, the shame spiral after a flare, the creeping depression of a condition with no predictable end. If your skin condition is affecting your mental health, this is one of the most honest books available about that intersection.

Christians with chronic illness

The Spiritual Warfare section is unlike anything else in the eczema literature. Not composed, not tidy. Honest about what it is to pray for healing and not receive it immediately. Honest about the militancy faith sometimes requires — and the submission it always requires. This book speaks directly to Christians who are asking why, who are tired, and who are still in the room with God anyway. It also speaks, with full testimony, about what healing eventually looked like.

Therapists, counsellors, and mental health practitioners

If you work with clients who have eczema or chronic skin conditions, this book offers what no clinical paper provides: the lived interior of the experience. The cognitive load of managing a flare in a professional setting. The invisibility problem. The emotional cost of being stared at, stepped back from, reduced to a visible condition by people who mean well. Get This Skin Off Me is a resource for practitioners who want to understand before they respond.

Organisations working with women

Healthcare providers, women's wellbeing organisations, community health teams, and social care settings: this book is a powerful resource for women managing chronic skin conditions. It addresses the intersection of eczema with professional life, social participation, self-image, mental health, and faith with frankness and depth. Available in bulk — contact us at giddymoose.com for organisational orders.

Carers, parents, and family members

As JC Love writes: when someone goes to prison, their family goes to prison too. This book is for everyone who has shared the eczema journey — who has lifted a child from sheets stuck to their skin, who has watched and felt helpless, who has not always had words. It helps the people who love someone with eczema understand, from the inside, what that person is carrying.

What's inside

Part One: The Beginning — The original, unedited 2012 account of a childhood with severe eczema: hospitalisations, bandages, school, adolescence, and the early adult years. Raw, honest, and 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 the accumulation of other people's responses to her skin.

Part Two: The Middle Years — The professional years. The meeting room. The gowns and shoes. The boots. The sauna. The hotel sheets. The invitations declined. 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 you. 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 specifically for carers and medical practitioners.

Pause Here reflection sections throughout — honest journal prompts, prayer starters, and space to process.

Your Page sections throughout — declarations, trigger logs, and skin-tracking spaces 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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