Quick Cut: S2E265 Myths About Anxiety and the Life-Changing Truth - an Interview with Dr. John Delony
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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Anxiety is like an alarm – it’s our body’s way of telling us something is wrong. In this episode, Dr. John Delony shares how, instead of allowing anxiety to consume us, we can learn to stop and listen, calm the alarm and move forward into healing and hope.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· The life-changing truth about anxiety.
· Practical steps to take to start getting your life back.
· Long-term strategies for healing.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“Redefining Anxiety,” by Dr. John Delony
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“All of it starts with the decision that ‘I don't want to live like this anymore.’” – Dr. John Delony
“Anxiety becomes an identity for us.” – Dr. John Delony
“You’ve got to take ownership.” – Dr. John Delony
“You cannot think your way to better mental health.” – Dr. John Delony
“This is a word that changed it all for me: practice.” – Dr. John Delony
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.4 | Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:19.4 | Well, the top of the morning to you, welcome to It's a Good Life. I'm your host, Brian Bafini, |
| 0:23.8 | and I am excited for you today. One of the little books I picked up was called, and if you're |
| 0:29.3 | watching on the YouTube, you'll see it right here. It's redefining anxiety, and it's Dr. John |
| 0:34.3 | Deloney. And we actually invited the author onto the show. He's a best-selling author. |
| 0:39.1 | He's a mental health expert, which I think it's, I don't need to stress too much how much |
| 0:44.0 | that's all needed today. He has two PhDs, which means between us, we have two PhDs on this |
| 0:49.8 | broadcast this morning, two decades of experience in counseling, crisis response, and higher education. |
| 0:55.7 | And John has a goal to help people navigate through tough decisions, improve relationships, |
| 1:00.3 | and help people believe that they're worthy of being well. The word I keep hearing is anxiety. |
| 1:06.5 | It's everywhere we go. And I just think this is profound stuff and the perfect message at the right time. |
| 1:12.7 | What are some of the things you learned on your journey that helped you go from paranoid |
| 1:16.9 | to kind of being where you're at today? |
| 1:18.6 | If I could distill it down into one simple statement, it's that anxiety is not the problem. |
| 1:25.1 | It is simply an alarm system letting us know that one of three things, |
| 1:30.9 | we're disconnected. Our bodies have found ourselves alone. And if you think back 2,000 years ago, |
| 1:36.5 | if we were to open our eyes on the plains of North America and our tribe had left us, |
| 1:41.6 | we were probably going to die. We got wired into us that we have to have other people. |
| 1:47.4 | And so that's number one. |
| 1:48.3 | If you find yourself lonely, and by the way, we live in a world now. |
| 1:51.7 | We've outsourced all of our human connection to these dumb little digital boxes. |
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