HeyJaredThe Inner Child Journal - Heal the Past, Create the Future
Essays 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
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I Betrayed My Inner Child, So He Had to Knock Some Sense Into Me (opens the original)
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I knew this was going to be a good conversation before we even hit record. Jesse Deal and I connected immediately around parts work, inner children, trauma, addiction and recovery. Then we hit record, and the conversation pretty much went wherever it wanted to go — which, appropriately enough, is kind of how inner child work works.We started with Wounde… Read more
Why do I crave something so painful? (opens the original)
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Listen to me read this passage—4 minutesWhy do I crave something so painful?My worst fear, that of having relationships disintegrate, becomes self-fulfilling prophecy — I have lost nearly all the people I ever dreaded losing.From where I sit now though, calmer and more introspective, a look back reveals the stark truth — I’m better off without them.That’s how Chapter 5 of Wounded Angels opens. It’s called Intensity.I
Eleven Years a Hermit, Now I Fit In (opens the original)
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I got to sit down with Greg Alan Jankowski — The Balance Professor — for IMAGiNE FiTTiNG IN, and after a bunch of emails back and forth, it was good to finally talk face to face.We covered a lot. Growing up outside Boston, the drumming that took me to Tokyo Disneyland for what was supposed to be six months in 1998 and turned into a life in Japan. Losing my mom when I was four, and the shame that landed on me at nine when I learned how she died — the kind of thing that follows a kid into every ro
I Thought Quitting Was the Hard Part. Then the Deeper Work Began. (opens the original)
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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 eventually inner-child and shadow work. I talk about the shame I carried after learning as a child that my mother had died by suicide, the way old wounds can show up years later as oversized reactions, and the idea that “if it’s hysterical, it’s historical.”We also get
I lost half a novel, and I’m kind of okay with it. (opens the original)
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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 exhaustion and despair—and one man’s way out of it. A way that just might be yours, too.👉 Get Wounded AngelsAuthor bio: David Deane Haskell is a <strong
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