The Inner Child Journal - Heal the Past, Create the Future
David Deane HaskellEssays on inner child healing, AI futures, and creative sovereignty. I write about staying human—whole, creative, and free—in a world designed to keep us wounded and dependent. Author of Wounded Angels. Fiction at daviddeanehaskellstories.substack.com
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 68 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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I Thought Quitting Was the Hard Part. Then the Deeper Work Began.
In this conversation with Michel Charles on Sobertown, I talk about the second stage of my recovery—the part that came after I had already addressed substance addiction.
For me, that meant codependency, shame, childhood trauma, and eventua...
I lost half a novel, and I’m kind of okay with it.
Wounded Angels is the book I didn’t delete.
The book that had to be written, despite all my reservations about climbing back down into the chaos, the vulnerability, and the pain.
Wounded Angels is a guidemap through the terrain of ex...
The Real Work of Living (and we just hit #5!)
Hey everyone,
We spend so much time in the trenches of healing—unpacking the past, doing the inner child work, and navigating the heavy intersections of trauma and identity. But lately, I’ve been thinking about what comes next. What happen...
Wounded Angels (audiobook version)
I’m in the thick of voicing my own audiobook version of Wounded Angels for you all, and it’s a labor of love, lemme tell you. The perfectionist in me is losing his mind, all that cutting and stopping, and re-doing a paragraph that sounded...
I Thought I Had Survived My Childhood. I Hadn’t.
Some podcast conversations stay politely near the surface.
This one didn’t.
Andrea Ashley took me all the way back: my mother dying when I was four, being told years later that she had died by suicide, the strange silence surrounding her...
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Essays on healing trauma, navigating AI futures, and staying sovereign in a world that wants you dependent. No gurus. No how-to. Just a wandering novelist sharing revelations in real-time.
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