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David Deane Haskell
📚 Author of Wounded Angels (Out Now!)
✍️ Exploring inner child work, healing, and creative truth
🌍 Digital nomad, storyteller, deep thinker
💡 Writing to connect, not just to be read

Reach out. Connect. Resonate.
Pinned
Finally did my first podcast. 🎙 Months of “not ready yet” turned out to be fear of being seen.

Said yes anyway—loved it. A warm, honest talk with Suzy Rowlands about healing, fear, and showing up anyway.

Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/innerchi...
The Conversation I Was Afraid to Have—Until Now
A rare, unfiltered exchange with Suzy Rowlands that went places I never planned to go.
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Gamer's End

"I haven’t eaten in days. Over the weekend I stopped and scarfed a bag of burgers, but that only happened because my phone died."

My new short story 'Gamer’s End' explores the terrifying bottom of digital addiction. Read it free here:

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Gamer's End
The Game Didn’t Kill Him — It Only Took His Life
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January 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
My latest story is a dark dive into the "game" that doesn't end until it drains you dry. For those who know what it’s like to be lost in the blue light.

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Gamer's End
The Game Didn’t Kill Him — It Only Took His Life
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January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Took a detour in Chiang Mai while hunting for housing and ended up jamming with some locals. Shot a quick clip, tossed it online, & wow.

Wild how the stuff that feels “off-track” is usually where the good stories start.

Here’s the video if you want a smile today.

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The Day I Got Lost in Chiang Mai… and Found 25,000 People Watching
A wrong turn, a last-minute hotel, and a street full of drummers reminded me how healing sneaks up on us when we least expect it.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Spiritual teachers blamed and discarded me for challenging them.

That's when I learned: toxic positivity isn't just annoying—it's dangerous.

I broke free from that mindset, integrated my actual trauma (not just 'thought positive'), and achieved something real.

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Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing - Kindle edition by Haskell, David Deane. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing - Kindle edition by Haskell, David Deane. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features lik...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Just published: I Tried to Let It Go — But My Body Said No

A story about what happens when your mind understands peace…
…but your body still remembers fear.

“Just let it go” can sometimes do more harm than help.

👉 open.substack.com/pub/innerchi...

#innerchild #mindfulness #writingcommunity
🫀I Tried to Let It Go—But My Body Said No
When mindfulness isn’t enough to stop the fight-or-flight storm
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October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Most healing books feel like theory. Wounded Angels is lived experience—months of raw inner child work that actually shifted me. 📖✨

Paperback coming soon. Who else is ready for healing that actually sticks?

#WoundedAngels #InnerChild
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I was born, I was shattered. I was born again, I was shattered again. I went to the edge to make sense of it all — and came back carrying a record of the whole thing. Now I'm sharing it with you, so you can make sense of your own.

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Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing
Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing - Kindle edition by Haskell, David Deane. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“Write this first. Tell your truth. Be free. Take pride in your gifts. Love this book, your wounded angels, and the connections they will bring.”

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Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing
Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing - Kindle edition by Haskell, David Deane. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wounded Angels: A Journey to Wholeness Through Inner Child Healing.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Ever feel gaslit by the loudest voices, drowning in nonstop politicized agendas?
It’s not just noise—it’s nervous-system sabotage. I had to learn the hard way what happens when you keep absorbing it… and what shifts the moment you switch it off.

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What I learned from a 9.1 megaquake
...words of wisdom from the inner child in times of instability and uncertainty
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September 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Second podcast, same nerves.

But Julia Anchorhaven’s Mystical Wellness Podcast opened doors I didn’t expect—inner child, fear, story, and the relief of finally being heard.

🎧 Full episode here →

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Facing the Mystical — My Second Podcast Appearance
Watch now | A conversation with Julia Anchorhaven on the Mystical Wellness Podcast that opened doors I didn’t expect.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Stopped trying to “look professional.”

Turns out the messy mix of healing + writing + drumming is the brand.

Kanye said it best: “My life is dope, & I do dope $h!t.”

I finally get it.

Dope Life, No Filter →

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...because My Life is Dope, & I Do Dope $h!t
Kanye’s words. My journey. Your chance to stop copying and start flowing.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
✨ New article: What Success Costs an Introvert

Jakarta gave me the dream—big stage, sponsors, dinners, all eyes on me.
It also gave me the crash.

Full reflection here →

The Hidden Cost of Living the Dream

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The Hidden Cost of Living the Dream
Nobody tells you how draining ‘success’ feels when you’re an introvert
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August 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Author of Wounded Angels (inner child healing) & The Technoquatics (serialized mystery exploring change, societal pressures, and what it means to be human).

Follow for fiction and nonfiction that digs deep and keeps you turning pages.

📖 Start here →

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📘 The Technoquatics: Table of Contents
A serialized dive into the deep, where evolution follows its own currents. New chapters surfacing often.
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August 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I’ve been quietly releasing a serialized novel, The Technoquatics—an exploration of change, societal pressures, and what it means to be human.

Six new chapters drop between now and the end of September, and the story’s about to erupt.

Start here →

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📘 The Technoquatics: Table of Contents
A serialized dive into the deep, where evolution follows its own currents. New chapters surfacing often.
open.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Finally did my first podcast. 🎙 Months of “not ready yet” turned out to be fear of being seen.

Said yes anyway—loved it. A warm, honest talk with Suzy Rowlands about healing, fear, and showing up anyway.

Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/innerchi...
The Conversation I Was Afraid to Have—Until Now
A rare, unfiltered exchange with Suzy Rowlands that went places I never planned to go.
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Someone who works with trauma read this & called it “one of the most psychologically honest and emotionally complex” things he’s seen in a long time.

That meant a lot.

I’m writing from the inside these days—not answers, just real-time reckoning.

🧡 Read it here:

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The Fantasy That Nearly Killed Me: When Love Isn’t Really Love
How Idealization Becomes Abandonment
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August 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just a little reminder! If you enjoy what I create, you can support me at ko-fi.com/daviddeaneha...
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July 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
New fiction drop: a holding cell, 8 strangers, no shoelaces, no way out.

Thanks to everyone who keeps showing up for my stories—it means everything.

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Two Hours, Tops
Time slows to a crawl when the prison bars slam shut.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Just published a new short story. This one’s fiction—but rooted in very real emotion: despondency.

A cell. Eight strangers. No answers. No control.

It’s not a personal account, but it taps into something many of us have felt—being stuck, powerless, and unraveling.

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Two Hours, Tops
Time slows to a crawl when the prison bars slam shut.
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July 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
💭 walked into sunset.
found a cliff, some monkeys, and my old emergency mode.

my brain spun disaster stories the whole way down to a perfect beach.

no danger. just fire drills.
again.

wrote about it here if you know the feeling: open.substack.com/pub/innerchi...
I Thought I Was Just Watching a Sunset—Then My Brain Staged an Emergency
An evening hike turned into a mental disaster scenario, complete with monkeys, cliffs, and imaginary cops. Trauma brain is wild.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“People kept telling me I was extroverted. I wanted to believe them—until I spent 8 hours without a door to close.”

What if your real strength isn’t flexibility—but finally refusing to abandon yourself?

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When You’re 80% Introvert, Even a Hotel Checkout Can Leave You Feeling Dangerously Exposed
No safe room. No closed door. Just me, my bags, and a wave of old survival patterns.
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June 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Fifth floor. Triple locks. Steel security gate.
He finally felt like he could relax.
But not everything locked is secure.
Read this if you’ve ever trusted the wrong place at the wrong time.

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What a Score!
The Price Was Too Good to Be True. And It Was.
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June 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM