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Redefining Anxiety What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Get Your Life Back

John Delony

Anxiety is real—but it isn’t the end of your story. Dr. John Delony knows what anxiety feels like. He’s walked that dark road himself, but he found light and hope on the other side of it. Bringing together his own journey and two decades of counseling and research, he walks you through:

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The Dr. John Delony Show

The host highlighted the book as a brief, practical guide that demystified anxiety and offered actionable tools, noting its popularity among professionals and callers. They repeatedly offered copies to listeners, describing it as a helpful resource for both individual and team mental‑health awareness. Listeners reported that it clarified misconceptions about medication and provided a roadmap to managing anxiety. Overall, the book was presented as a highly recommended resource.

Highly Recommended

Episode: How Do I Stop Relapsing Into Destructive Habits?

The book was mentioned as a resource to help with short-term and long-term anxiety management, and was to be sent to a caller.

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I'm going to send you my book, redefining anxiety.

Episode: I Had a Baby With My Brother-in-Law

The book was sent to a caller to help her and her husband work through their marital challenges and improve communication.

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I'm going to send you a copy of both Redefining Anxiety and Own Your Past, Change Your Future, which are my two best-selling books.

Episode: I’ve Been Cut Off From My Grandkids and It Breaks...

This book was referenced as providing helpful information about anxiety, challenging the notion that it can only be cured with medication. A listener found it particularly helpful.

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Also your anxiety book is helping me. I'm on the myth of anxiety can be cured only with medication. But this is really special.

Episode: I’m Stressed Out, Scared and Anxious All the Time

The host mentioned sending two copies of this book to a caller and her husband so they could read it together and discuss it. It was described as having three points about connection, being scared, and autonomy.

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I'm sending you two copies of redefining anxiety, my book on anxiety and you and your husband can read through it together.

Episode: Talking About Mental Health at Work

It was described as a simple mental health awareness book with tools to help people deal with anxiety; it's not overly complicated and provides practical advice. The host offered to send copies to a construction worker to share with his team.

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I'm going to mail you 10 copies for free of redefining anxiety. I'm just going to ship them through in a box. You can hand out like tic-tacs to people. Okay, and it's really thin. It's like 70 or 80 pages, it's really thin. And it's about dealing with anxiety and what it is, what it's not and how to get your life back. That's the subtitle, okay? But it's not, you don't have to have a Ph.D. to get through it. It's a very simple mental health awareness book for folks and then it gives them some tools.

Episode: My Boyfriend Wants Me To Lose Weight So I’m More A...

Many more copies of this book were sold than initially anticipated.

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we sold so many tens and tens and so many more books of redefining anxiety than we ever imagined.

Episode: I Was Just Fired from My Job & Feel Worthless

The caller mentioned having read this book and learning to identify sources of anxiety and resolve them, but was still struggling with the lingering physical sensations of anxiety even after resolving the problem. The book was referenced positively for its helpful information.

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So I read your book, Creed of Finding and Sady. And I really like it. There is a lot of really good stuff in there.

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