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IT's HARD TO BE A PERSON: defeating anxiety, surviving the world and having more fun.​

MINI SYNOPSIS:
Blending humor with mental health struggles, alternative songwriter/illustrator/podcaster Brett Newski makes fun of his own anxieties by offering mental health boosts in his first book " It's Hard to be a Person: defeating anxiety, surviving the world, and having more fun." 
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“It’s Hard to be a Person” BOOK SYNOPSIS:
Years ago, somewhere on the Internet, I posted a few dumb drawings making fun of my own anxiety and depression.
The response to them was warmer than anticipated. So I kept going, and after about three years of drawing, I had enough drawings for a book called It's Hard to be a Person: defeating anxiety, surviving the world, and having more fun.

Humor has always been a primary mode of therapy for me. I still make fun of my own anxiety and depression as catharsis. I sing about it on tour, talk about it on my podcast, and draw pictures of it here in this book. Putting my formerly-private-feelings out into the world has been tremendous therapy for me, and I wish I would’ve done it sooner.

Over the span of many years, I’ve been illustrating the “hacks”, “strategies”, or “exercises” that have worked best for me in combating the struggles in my head. More than anything I want this book to be useful for people.

I’m not a doctor, just a person who spends too much time in my head. The objective of It’s Hard to Be a Person is not to give unsolicited advice, but to hopefully save you some headaches on the long n’ winding road of life in your brain.

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BRETT NEWSKI is an alternative songwriter, illustrator and podcaster based in Milwaukee, WI, USA. He has been featured on Rolling Stone, NPR, American Songwriter, SiriusXM, Boston Globe, and Paste. 

Newski has played alongside acts like Pixies, Violent Femmes, Courtney Barnett, Manchester Orchestra, Better than Ezra & New Pornographers. He continues to tour over 100 dates per year. 

​Newski's podcast Dirt from the Road also dives into mental health boosts. Guests include The Lumineers, All American Rejects, Dashboard Confessional, Guster, Heartless Bastards, Verve Pipe, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Frank Turner. Hear here: https://brettnewski.biglink.to/dirtfromtheRoad

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flower
​house and
feral sun
​is a collection of poems written over the past two years by La Crosse, WI poet Peter Engen. Like his literary inspirations Bukowski, Fante and Robert Bly, he draws pictures of everyday life with gusto and insightfulness. These musings are part darkness and part sublime, reveling in the seasons painted by the natural world and the world inside.

Grateful acknowledgements to the editors of the following magazines, where some of these poems first appeared:
Halfway Down the Stairs, La Piccioletta Barca, High Shelf, Steam Ticket, Avocet, and Contours
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​Peter Engen grew up in the oldest Norwegian settlement West of the Mississippi. He has lived most of his life in the hills and unglaciated valleys of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Some of his deepest poet yearnings were sought and quenched in the megalopolis cities of New York and Los Angeles before returning to his roots in the Upper Midwest.

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I Only
Asked
​For Blue
Herein lies the ineffable power of an experience born of living a life of loves and lives lost and found, and ultimately, redeemed.

Tim Eddy writes poetry and songs from his rural home in the heart of the driftless region of Wisconsin. 

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