Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity

Name: Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity
Rating: 4.869565010070801 (46 reviews)

Campbell Walker

Oct 2021 · Hardie Grant Publishing

46 reviews

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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

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 houseb...

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46 reviews

Mistress Cutie

March 25, 2026

I loved the metaphor just wish the formating was better on the phone. been a fan of struthless for a long time so glad I final read his book.

Tom

January 26, 2025

it's a no BS reflection of your mind through wack AF metaphors that take the edge off being real with yourself basically a book written for people who say menty bee instead of mental breakdown because it adds humor into dealing with your own thoughts

Chris Mills

October 7, 2022

A useful book that makes the mundane subject of self-reflection and self-improvement more enjoyable with it's silly and vivid metaphors.

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.

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...

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