Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

by John Delony, Dave Ramsey (Foreword by)

Overview

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Your Mental Health Matters.

We’re the most technologically advanced society in history, but we’ve never been more stressed, medicated, or lonely. We have 1,000 Facebook friends but no one to help us move our couch. The pace of life is making us exhausted.

We’re all carrying the weight of our trauma based on the stories we were told by others and the ones we tell ourselves—and those stories are like bricks in a backpack that keep us from being happy and healthy. In his new book, national bestselling author Dr. John Delony provides a clear, five-step path to being well.

You’ll learn how to:

• Redefine what trauma is and how to identify it in your life.
• Grieve and heal from past hurt and trauma.
• Make friends as an adult—it’s not easy, but it is necessary.
• Change your thoughts—it’s possible.
• Assess and evaluate your actions—these can change too.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Your thoughts and actions will be challenged. And if you take the steps John outlines, you’ll learn how to leave the past where it belongs and get on the path to healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942121626
Publisher:	Ramsey Press
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	54,441
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dr. John Delony is a national bestselling author, mental health and wellness expert, and host of The Dr. John Delony Show. He holds two PhDs—one in counselor education and supervision, and another in higher education administration. Before joining Ramsey Solutions, John spent two decades working as a senior leader, researcher, and professor at multiple universities. He also spent years working in crisis and emergency response. Now, as a Ramsey Personality, he teaches people how to reclaim their lives from the madness of the modern world.

John and his family reside in Franklin, Tennessee.

Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business. He’s a #1 National bestselling author and host of The Ramsey Show, America’s 2nd largest radio show, The Ramsey Show Podcast, with over 1.5 billion downloads, and The Ramsey Show YouTube channel, with more than 1 billion views. Dave’s eight national bestselling books include The Total Money Makeover, Baby Steps Millionaires, and EntreLeadership. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Today, Fox News, CNN, Fox Business and many more. Since 1992, Dave has helped people take control of their money, build wealth, and enhance their lives. He also serves as CEO of Ramsey Solutions.

Dave and his family reside in Franklin, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Part 1 The Stories Are the Problem

Chapter 1 When Things Fall Apart 3

Chapter 2 Acknowledge Your Stories 15

Chapter 3 Stories About the World 31

Chapter 4 Stories About Ourselves 59

Chapter 5 Stories About Relationships 75

Chapter 6 Stories We're Told and That Happened 93

Chapter 7 Stories We Tell Ourselves 111

Part 2 The Stories Are the Solution

Chapter 8 Bricks in Your Backpack 133

Chapter 9 Acknowledge Reality: Good Grief 149

Chapter 10 Get Connected 165

Chapter 11 Change Your Thoughts 195

Chapter 12 Change Your Actions 223

Chapter 13 Redemption 249

For Further Reading 263

Editorial Reviews

Looking for a practical plan to begin living your best life—now? Look no further than Own Your Past, Change Your Future. No psychobabble. Just straight talk and proven wisdom. John Delony is a master communicator who shows all of us the way to wellness.

Dr. Les Parrott
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Healthy Me, Healthy Us

To say that this is an important book would be a colossal understatement. It is transformational—really. I want every person I know to read it right now!

Patrick Lencioni
President of The Table Group and New York Times Bestselling Author

An essential read for those seeking to help others as well as those needing a life change. The information is relatable from the first page to the last. It resonates with your soul in such a way that it reads more as a conversation than a book. Once I began reading, it was nearly impossible to put down.

Dr. Lynn Jennings
Jennings and Associates Counseling Services and UniversityProfessor

John Delony’s new book, Own Your Past, Change Your Future, takes you through a powerful journey of learning to look back, coming clean, being honest, and finding freedom in new beginnings. This book will help you discover new truths about your past so you can change your future.

Craig Groeschel
Founding and Senior Pastor of Life.Church, New York Times Bestselling Author, and Author of Winning the War in Your Mind

I have many words to describe this book—enlightening, profound, surprising, hilarious, accessible—but there are only three words I have, and have always had, to describe John: a good man. I envy you this first, but hopefully not last, experience with him.

Dr. Michael Gomez
Psychologist, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Universityand Texas Tech UniversityHealth Services Center

Each of us comes into parenting with a preload of joys, hurts, frustrations, and hard relationships. Nothing influences our parenting more than these. Dr. Delony parses these out in a razor-sharp manner that makes us see ourselves as we were and as we are now. This is an important book because it makes you better and a better you is always a better parent.

Dr. Meg Meeker
Author of National Bestseller Strong Fathers, Strong Daughter

Stories exert some very powerful forces on our psyches and our lives. They set up expectations and also the maps we live by. John reminds us that it is very important to examine what our own stories are, and to be a proactive participant in writing new ones.

Dr. Henry Cloud
Psychologist and New York Times Bestselling Author

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