Sue Stockdale talks to Brian Sachetta, software developer, author, and owner of “Get Out of Your Head,” a brand and book series that seeks to help folks overcome anxiety and depression. Brain explains how he combines his experiences in the tech world with previous mental health battles to draw parallels between computer systems and the human mind to offer practical strategies for evading your own psychological demons.

Brian currently has two books on the market, “Get Out of Your Head: A Toolkit for Living with and Overcoming Anxiety” and “Get Out of Your Head Vol. 2: Navigating the Abyss of Depression.” His mission is to help as many sufferers as possible through not only those books but also his blog and podcast appearances.

Key Quotes:

'I had always had an interest in doing things with technology'.

'I had so many pages of notes, 100 pages in Microsoft Word, I thought why don't I distill this down into something'?

'That's what happens with anxiety in general, our bodies go into a fight or flight state'.

'I have these tendencies to chew things over to ruminate, and that is not helpful as it only tends to magnify the fear that I'm feeling'.

'You can't really solve emotions, you can only let them flow through you'.

'I was going out and AB testing different strategies'.

'A lot of people have reached out to me. I had one reach out to me and said, this literally changed my life'.

'I think when you dig into it, art is sort of emotion'.

'In my books. I talk about the pain. I talk about the difficulty. I'm not smoothing things over and being everything's wonderful and happy. I give space for the darkness. I give space for the difficulty'.

Connect with Brian Sachetta:

Website: https://getoutofyourhead.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getoutofyourhead/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getoutofyourheadbooks

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