So who is David Dean Haskell?

That's a question that I still can't even answer to this day.

I know myself a lot better than I did about seven and a half, eight years ago.

I'm 55 years old.

As a kid, I just went through a lot.

We'll talk some about that and it's in the book that I wrote.

And then, so by the time I got to 18, 19 years old, I had completely given up on being normal or okay.

How do you define healing now compared to when you first started?

For you, when you're doing nonfiction, when you're talking about your healing, and I know a lot of people do this, have you fully dealt with the healing aspect of it? for yourself and have you been able to grow from sharing it with the public?

I don't think we ever fully get there until we, until we're done with this lifetime.

And I think that's an, I'm sorry to hear about the MS diagnosis as well.

I'm sure that's going to be a process for you as well, which is, you know, it'll come and go.

This is all, I talk about this four different types of health, physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional.

And like, where are we at? And I did a lot of work on my emotional and spiritual health.

And so this is a forever journey for me.

How did you discover drumming as a creative outlet for yourself? And what does it do for you that maybe other forms of art don't do for you?

Um,

I am always available.

I'll always take a phone call.

Um, And that's just kind of like the basic thing.

I've done service over the years.

I think my writing, the nonfiction writing has to do with that too.

It's not directly recovery.

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