Own Your Past Change Your Future Quotes

“You Cannot Be Well Alone The third step on the path to healing and wellness is to get connected to other people.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“With careful planning, honest communication, and the right help and care around you, your different tomorrow can be meaningful and extraordinary.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Here’s the truth: There is no going back. The past is over. The old days are gone.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“We always want to get back to the way things used to be.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“After means there is no going back. Only moving forward. Grieving is about acknowledging, owning, learning, and practicing remembrance that everything is different now.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Grief is feeling like you can’t tread water for one more second.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Grief is acknowledging reality and feeling the difference in what you hoped for or expected and what actually happened. Grief is ownership. Grief is truth.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Point is, people aren’t machines to fix. They are not problems to solve. We need healing and relationships. Learning is not downloading. Synapse growth and pruning new neural growth is not rewiring.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“It’s almost never too late to start something new.65 You’re never too old to start over again. And you’re never too young to get started. Wasting time on trivial or nonsensical things is a tragedy.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“The stories we tell ourselves about time often end up in two different camps: either It’s too late and I’m already out of time! or I have all the time in the world . . . so what’s the rush?”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“When we have thoughts and feelings, we assume they’re right. We feel like we’re telling ourselves the truth. When we don’t believe in ourselves or we don’t think we’re good at something, we believe we’re right about those beliefs as well.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“In this new century, most of our friends have been shoved into fancy digital boxes with 3- or 4-inch screens. We’ve traded quality for quantity, and we’re drowning in shallow water.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Our kids became our reason for being. Parents now prove their worth to the world by having successful kids. Worth shows up in a son or daughter’s grades, athletic performance, music or theater performance, church attendance (and behavior), and 4-H.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“more than one in four American adults—and more than one in twenty American children—takes a psychiatric drug on a daily basis.”46”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“The story is that the more we avoid death, the happier we will be. Sadly, that story is competing with a single stark truth: Death is coming for me, you, and everyone we love and care about. None of us gets out alive—and we know it.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“communication is not connection. Communication is the transfer of information. Connection is the mutual weight-bearing of one another’s burdens and the celebrating of one another’s joys.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“loneliness has been associated with personality disorders and psychoses, suicide, impaired cognitive performance and cognitive decline over time, increased risk of Alzheimer’s . . . , and increases in depressive symptoms.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“owing people is crippling. Anxiety and depression are about a lack of control and autonomy over your future.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“So now we live less and try to accomplish and respond more. All of a sudden the technology that was supposed to free our schedules ended up taking our souls.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“We’re trying to jam an electric car charger into the backside of the mule pulling our buggy. It’s not working.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“The stories told me my self-worth was based on accomplishment. That my value was found in expertise and how much money I made.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“The internet would tell me anything I wanted to hear.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Time is like spending from a bank account, and we don’t know how much money is in it. It’s best to be wise with our purchases.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“If you are like most people, then like most people, you don’t know you’re like most people. The average person doesn’t see herself as average. . . . Most students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student, most business managers see themselves as more competent than the average business manager, and most football players see themselves as having better “football sense” than their teammates. Ninety percent of motorists consider themselves to be safer-than-average drivers, and 94 percent of college professors consider themselves to be better-than-average teachers. Ironically, the bias toward seeing ourselves as better than average causes us to see ourselves as less biased than average too. As one research team concluded, “Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, fair-minded, and healthy—not to mention more attractive—than the average person.”61 So when we tell ourselves stories, we hear a voice we trust—our own. And our voice is smart and honest. Or at least smarter and more honest than most people we know. And this way of looking at ourselves is powerful and compelling. When we have thoughts and feelings, we assume they’re right. We feel like we’re telling ourselves the truth.”
― John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

“Finding someone new to hate has never solved anything. It just ends in piles of bodies.”
― Dr. John Delony, Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness