Dr. John Delony

I didn't have social media or anything when I started doing this.

And then all of a sudden it took off out from under me, right?

In this wild way.

And suddenly I'm all over the place.

My big dirty secret after having a top five mental health and wellness show was, and it was mostly on parenting and relationships, is my own little daughter wouldn't hug me.

She wouldn't be in my presence.

I made her feel unsafe.

And I remember going in to hug my daughter when she was probably five or six and she was like, no, she ran off.

And I just started crying.

I was sitting at the kitchen table and my wife who was Dr. Deloney long before me, she's way smarter than me.

She said, have you ever considered that her little tiny body, her tiny little five or six year old body has identified you as not safe?

And I got pretty upset and I said, I don't yell.

I don't hit anybody.

I don't swear in front of these kids.

Like I'm a good dad.

And she goes, no, no, no, no.

You're the best dad I've ever seen.

And you have a nuclear reactor in your chest and we can all feel it.

And that was what ultimately drove me to see a therapist here in Nashville.

And I sat down on her couch and I was like, all right, here we go.