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Your Head is a Houseboat

A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity
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Your Head is a Houseboat by Campbell Walker is a humourous and insightful guide to understanding the mind. Using quirky illustrations and quirky metaphors, it explores brain functions, mental health, emotions, mindfulness, and psychology without complex jargon. The author likens your mind to a houseboat that requires maintenance and decluttering, governed by competing 'bosses' and a 'zoo' of animalistic desires, inviting readers on a journey to better mental clarity and wellbeing.
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This book suits readers interested in mental health, mindfulness, and psychology who appreciate humour and visual storytelling. It is ideal for anyone looking for approachable, creative ways to explore their emotions and personal growth, especially those who find traditional self-help books too dense or clinical.

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Your Head is a Houseboat is a uniquely hilarious guide to what goes on in your brain, from illustration sensation Campbell Walker, aka Struthless.

The only truth we really know is that we're going to spend the rest of our lives in our own houseboat (our head), so it makes sense to make that houseboat as good as possible. The houseboat needs cleaning and maintenance, and it shouldn't be weighed down by junk (our own thoughts and other people's opinions). There's a bunch of bosses with different ideas about where you should be heading in the ocean of life, and a zoo of animalistic desires below the deck who are really steering. But it's your houseboat, so it's probably time for you to cast away and set sail (is that even how houseboats work?) on a journey to understanding it.

In Your Head is a Houseboat, Cam demystifies brain functions, mental health, emotions, mindfulness, and psychology – but with less complex terminology and more bizarre metaphors. It's a book filled with illustrations, journal exercises, and words that will probably hit too close to home. At its core, this is a funny, accessible approach to understanding your head and making it a nicer place to live.

'The most important and accessible mental health book in a generation. Truly life-changing.' – Osher Günsberg

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Praised as an accessible and life-changing mental health book, it is lauded for distilling complex self-help concepts into simple, entertaining illustrations and relatable metaphors. Reviewers highlight its honest, laid-back tone and innovative approach to personal development, distinguishing it from typical self-help material. It is recommended for those seeking to understand their minds with curiosity and practical insight.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781743797495

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books

Illustration: Full colour illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 372g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Campbell Walker is an illustrator, animator and content creator better known as Struthless. Cam has built a combined following of over 750,000 people, and worked with clients like Comedy Central, Spotify, Vice, Pedestrian TV, GQ, The Betoota Advocate, Tinder, Samsung, Gatorade and Universal Music. He has a line of apparel, and a podcast with Triple J’s Bryce Mills. Before drawing, Cam worked as an advertising creative director, a tattooist and (for one very strange week) a golf-cart taxi driver at an Arizonan country music festival.

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