Breaking Cycles

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

Here Lies the Evidence

A story of first love, abandonment, and how tying self-worth to being chosen shaped everything that followed.

Feb 15 • Alisa Sieber

I Still Have a Dream, and It Lives in Our Children

I originally wrote a version of this piece for The 831, in the context of a community moment, an invitation outward.

Jan 18 • Alisa Sieber

Mom, You Look Happy

A mother reflects on joy, loss, and generational healing after a life-altering phone call. An intimate essay on presence, grief, and breaking cycles.

Jan 16 • Alisa Sieber

This Is Not Where the Story Starts

An origin story about survival, performance, motherhood, and memory. A memoir-in-progress tracing how truth, trauma, and identity collide.

Jan 5 • Alisa Sieber

The 3D Printed Rose

A mother reflects on presence, restraint, and hope while making art with her daughter, searching for a lost kitten, and learning when staying matters…

Jan 3 • Alisa Sieber

The Missing Kitten

A raw monologue about motherhood, generational trauma, and the moment when love means not ending someone else’s search too soon.

Jan 3 • Alisa Sieber

11:41

Christmas. A Love Hate Relationship. Part 3.

Christmas Future — The Gift of No Chaos

Jan 2 • 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

The Intimacy Paradox

I sang my truth to a room full of people in our newly built dome, but being witnessed by the one person who knows me best still feels impossible.

Oct 28, 2025 • Alisa Sieber

I've Been Running From Heartbreak My Entire Life

A stranger assumed a man broke me. I let him believe it. The truth is more complicated: I am both the heartbreaker and the heartbroken. On finally…

Oct 21, 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

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