About

Bao-Van Du - Artist, Author, Underwolf

I write to heal myself. I author to heal others.

I was born in a refugee camp, raised in Western Australia, and shaped by the kind of loss that doesn’t discriminate.
My mother died when I was four.
My father passed in April 2025, a rapid and catastrophic battle with cancer.

With both foundational roots severed in this lifetime, every root fibre that once held me broke. I could never be the person I was prior. From this point forward, as I have done at critical junctures in my life, I rebuilt from primordial roots, lived experiences, and pure instinct.

For over 20 years, I worked in enterprise technology across multinational organisations. Data infrastructure, systems thinking, and industry engagement became second nature. It was never first.

But when the systems stopped making sense — when my learned tendencies had been hyperdeveloped to the point of distortion, when my instincts were bypassed and overridden until my mind felt hollow and my body broke under immune dysregulation. I knew I was operating counter to my every being. I felt it. I was morally corrupt. And so I stopped feeding them.

And thus began my steep descent to my undoing. I started honouring my body, my soul, and finally my spirit. In 2023, I walked away from roles and anything that no longer aligned with my values.

The Underwolf is my surfacing. It is breathing in fresh air to expel all the stagnant mould that built up and intoxicated my natural state.
It is where I mark movement through authorship, nourishment, and instinct.
It is where wealth is cultivated only through the primary sources of being in body, soul, and spirit, each restored by healing.

It is also home to the Healing Den, a space for atoms, essence, and light: the body restored, the soul remembered, the spirit freed.
Here, systems soften, truth is embodied, and people return to their natural rhythm.

Born from loss. Built by instinct. Nourished by healing.
Everything I do here is signal.

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