Stop Letting Everything Affect You: How to break free from overthinking, emotional chaos, and self-sabotage

Daniel Chidiac is an Australian writer whose work sits squarely in the popular self-development and relationships genre. He began as a self-published author and later reached wider distribution through traditional publishing, positioning his advice as the product of personal experimentation, persistence, and mindset-driven habit change rather than clinical training. Across titles such as Who Says You Can’t? You Do (2018) and The Modern Break-Up (2019), he emphasizes personal responsibility, emotional resilience, and practical routines for shifting thought patterns—themes that culminate in Stop Letting Everything Affect You.

Chidiac’s literary output is supported by a substantial online audience and media-facing work (e.g., coaching/consulting with public-facing professionals). This background makes him well-suited to write a skills-oriented, motivational manual. His strengths are accessibility and a practical focus on self-regulation, boundaries, and agency. However, his profile also indicates limitations. Chidiac is not a clinician, although his arguments often draw on the research of clinical psychologists such as Elaine Aron’s Highly Sensitive Person framework. Readers should therefore treat his neuroscientific and therapeutic claims as “psychology-informed” rather than clinically authoritative. His worldview tends toward individual agency, failing to address structural constraints (poverty, discrimination, coercive workplaces, etc.), severe mental illness, complex trauma, and situations where “leaving,” or boundary-setting, is not straightforward or safe.