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Own Your Past, Change Your Future

Disciplines:
psychology
self-help

Summary

John Delony's practical guide to mental health and relationships — drawing on neuroscience, attachment theory, and clinical experience for a popular Christian audience.

Core Contribution

Accessible integration of neuroscience, attachment theory, and practical psychology for people dealing with anxiety, relational pain, and trauma. The 'four rules': connect with your body, choose behaviors aligned with your values, recount your story honestly, seek help. Practical and direct in a way that academic psychology rarely is.

Historical Influences

Bessel van der Kolk John Bowlby

Intellectual Lineage

Self-Help Psychology Christian Counseling

Allied Works

Building a Non-Anxious Life The Body Keeps the Score

Contemporaries & Peers

Building a Non-Anxious Life

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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