Dr. John DeLoney (49:01)
I'm tired of treading water. And every time I try to pull myself up, you just. There's Your boot right there. Push me back under. I'm not doing that anymore. And if he's. I don't know where those papers are, then. What's the name of your attorney? I'm gonna call your attorney. I'm gonna call right now because I gotta get this thing. We got to get going. My every day of my life, every minute of my life, ticking away, and I'm not doing this anymore. I'm gonna go live a reckless, fun, exciting, adventurous life. I'm done living a reduced life. I hate this for you, Gail. I hate you've been having to live like this for so long. And part of me is so excited for Gail Part 2. Here's what happens when Gail's fully unleashed. And no, you're not gonna be able to go frolicking through a field. And probably with your back and your knees, you're not being able to hike the Grand Canyon. You're right, you didn't ask for this, and here it is. But you could still have somebody who will ride or die and love you till the end of time. You still have somebody that will laugh and play and be goofy, and you can still go on trips. Is it going to be more inconvenient? Yes. When they say, is anybody in a wheelchair getting out of this plane? You're gonna have to raise your hand. Say, yes, I do. Great. Then we're going on to the next. We're going on to the next. And I'm telling you what, my buddy who's paraplegic of my oldest friends on planet Earth, when me and him and his brother and one of our other closest Ride or Die friends and all four of us went to an 80s metal concert reunion and we sang our lungs out, you could still go make it happen. You just have to decide. And the people around you have to decide. You're not the worst least thing. You're Gail from Knoxville, Tennessee, worthy of a life of adventure and fun. And whatever we're anxious about, we're going right through the middle of it because we can. Thank you so much for the call, sister. Hang on the line. I'm going to send you a copy of Building a Non Anxious Life. Actually, I'm going to send you two copies. One for you and one for your daughter. I want you to live that book and I want you all to head right through it. Thank you for the call. Call anytime. We'll be right back. This show is sponsored by Better Help. This month is all about gratitude. And most of us have a person or two we'd like to shout out for helping us out somewhere along our life's journey. I'd like to take a moment to thank two people who have transformed my life. One is the great Marilyn Fannin, and two is the great and powerful Dr. Jean Will Thompson. Marilyn gave me a chance when no one should have. She brought me along and taught me poise and professionalism, and she challenged me when I needed help. And Jean Noel taught me how to be a dad, a husband, a professional, and how to balance the seemingly impossible weight of caring for a whole bunch of people all at the same time. Big time. Thanks to Marilyn and Jean Noel and for all you listeners. I know you have people in your own life that you're grateful for, and hopefully you stop and thank them. But there's one person that we often don't take time to think enough ourselves. We don't always acknowledge that we're surviving or moving forward. We're grinding towards a better life, better relationships, and a better world. And in a world where everything's gone bonkers, this isn't easy. So here's my reminder to thank the people in your life, including you. And sometimes we need more than just a thank you. We need some professional and personal help. We need to talk to someone who is trained to help us discover true gratitude for ourselves and others, especially during the holiday seasons. That's why I recommend my friends a better help. BetterHelp is 100% online therapy. You can talk with your therapist anytime, so it's convenient for your schedule. Just fill out a short online survey to get matched with a licensed therapist. Plus, you can switch therapists at any time for no extra cost. This holiday season, let the gratitude flow with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com deloney all right, we are back. All right, Kelly, can I interrupt whatever thing you have thinged here? Because, like, a thing just happened in the hallway and it's important. A lot of things happening. I know. My wife always says, john, you just are speaking. Not in. In actual nouns. No. You speak in ideas. That's. That's exactly right. Yeah. Yes, but sure, you know, your name's back there. So there we go. Go for it. Oh, that's never been a thing. Never been a thing. I'm trying to be nice for the people. Oh, thanks. It's all a ruse, everybody. Hey, listen, I always want to just. If I. If I have a moment. I don't always want to, but occasionally I want to. When I have a moment, when somebody stops me and says, hey, thank you for pointing me towards a Particular thing. Earlier today, one of my. I'll just. I'll speak in generalities. One of the people I work with very, very closely. No, nobody direct reached out, and they told me, hey, I had my first therapy appointment with BetterHelp. And I was like, yeah, tell me about it. And they said, it was incredible. I said, really? Tell me about it. Not from a surprise, but, like, man, somebody came and found me and said, thank you for pointing me to this. They said they called a better help therapist. And the therapist said, all right, tell me. Tell me why you're calling. Tell us. Let's go through it. And they said, well, I'm just gonna start my pitch because you're like the whatever therapist I've talked to. And the therapist heard the story and then said, hey, I want you to hear some homework assignments. And what was awesome is they were the exact homework assignments I would have given somebody who had told me those same things. And as we started talking through it, I said, was, your findings this and this. And they're like, oh, my goodness. Anyway, when somebody stops me, somebody writes me, somebody calls in and says, hey, I just need you to know I've reached out in my local community trying to get a hold of a therapist. And there's 15 therapists here that are all worthy of being called. And their waitlist is seven months each or four months each. They don't take my insurance or their only new cash or whatever. And so I finally just went back to your show and I got the code and I called BetterHelp. And my goodness, thank you for that. I'm always like, who? Don't think me. Think Better help for setting up this whole thing where you can do counseling in your car, you can. You can do therapy in your car, you can do therapy at your desk, you can do therapy, you know, from your bathroom on your laptop. Don't do it in, like. You know what I mean? Y'all know what I mean? You know what I mean? Don't be weird. But, like, if you're on the fence, as we're entering into the holiday season, and for many people, it's like, holidays, holidays, pumpkin spice, blah, blah, blah. For millions and millions of people, heading into the holiday season is not a great time. It's not an exciting time. It's a. I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to feel about this. This is my first holiday without dad. This is my first holiday without my spouse. This is my first holiday as an empty nester. My kids aren't coming home because they want to go visit their boyfriend or girlfriend, whatever, whatever it is, if it's time to reach out and call, betterhelp get a therapist. Make the call. Make the call. And I know this sounds like a spiel, just make the call. And it's just a good reminder from a. From somebody on the team who stopped me and just said, hey, I finally, finally just did it. And session one was awesome. That's just my encouragement. You're worth it. You're worth being well, you're worth calling somebody and you're worth not heading into yet another holiday season dreading it. There's too much else to dread in the world right now. If you need to make the call, make the call. Thank you so much for joining us today on the show. There's some hard calls about how do you get someone to go to rehab? You can't. How do you find self worth when for 30 years someone's told you don't have any? How do you deal with in laws that come over and get you don't. And I hope through all these calls you heard one thread and that is this. You have the power to change your life. You're worth it. Thank you so much. We'll see you soon. Love you guys. Bye.
