Meet Your Emotional Support Duck.

Self-help for humans barely holding it together.

Life’s messy. Your ducks are everywhere.
These books won’t fix you,  they’ll just remind you you’re not broken, just tired, overcaffeinated, and doing your best.

Waddle Forward Shop the Series

The Waddle Forward Collection

Four books. One goal: help you laugh through the mess and waddle forward anyway.
Because enlightenment’s overrated, laughter works just fine.

Readers Are Losing Their Quack (over these books)

Finally, a Self-Help Book That Gets Real About Wanting More

Permission to want more, without guilt or hustle-culture crap. Feels like advice from a witty friend who gets it.
— Jerry S. Hu

An Existential Crisis Wrapped in Snacks, Sarcasm, and Surprisingly Good Advice

Doesn’t fix the mess, sits in it with you and somehow makes it feel okay.
— The Truth Teller

DUCKS EVERYWHERE!

Kicks ‘enoughness’ to the curb and makes change feel doable (and hilarious).”
— Tamar

You Can’t Paddle Toward a Dream You’re Too Scared to Admit You Have

Best line in a book ever. And the advice sticks.
— Travis

Equal Parts Hilarious and Healing

Laugh-out-loud funny and real as hell.
— Sienna

Like Getting Advice From a Brutally Honest Best Friend

Laugh-out-loud funny, surprisingly moving, and packed with practical tips that actually work. A must-read if you’re feeling stuck.
— Ruoqi

Emotional Education Author of the Year 2025: Scotty Boxa

Scotty Boxa is the human behind the ducks, writer, creator, and professional chaos wrangler from the Sunshine Coast.
He writes self-help that doesn’t pretend to have it all together, just enough humor to survive it.
Winner of the 2025 Emotional Education Author of the Year, he believes in laughter as medicine, honesty as therapy, and naps as spiritual practice.

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