Body Keeps the Score

Five to Ten Minutes

A mother lies down with her daughters every night. What she finds there is the love she never knew she was capable of giving. Or receiving.

Mar 13 • Alisa Sieber

How Don’t Leave Me High and Dry Came to Life

A behind-the-scenes look at writing, music, and performance

Jan 26 • Alisa Sieber

Christmas. A Love Hate Relationship. Part 2.

A decade of holidays spent performing, surviving, and holding it together. Motherhood, marriage, and the quiet unraveling no one saw.

Jan 1 • Alisa Sieber

Christmas. A Love Hate Relationship. Part 1.

A childhood moment shattered Christmas for me. This essay traces innocence lost, generational trauma, and how motherhood forced me to rebuild meaning…

Dec 29, 2025 • Alisa Sieber

I Was in Hell While Living a Fairytale

Over flat wine from France, I could finally be honest with my husband about the fairytale life I'd been performing. About the castle where I felt…

Nov 1, 2025 • Alisa Sieber

The Water at Fly Ranch

I learned my body knew how to surface. I didn't know yet that floating alone was only half the work.

Oct 9, 2025 • Alisa Sieber

I Did Something Bad

A visceral autofiction prologue about the American Dream, desire, self-betrayal, and the moment before everything finally breaks open.

Aug 5, 2021 • Alisa Sieber

Don't Leave Me High and Dry

A visceral postpartum autofiction chapter exploring motherhood, trauma, and survival through lived experience, memory, and music.

Jan 6, 2019 • Alisa Sieber

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