Intimacy

A Love Letter to the Boy Who Broke Me

The moment I could see the cycle clearly and still chose to step back inside it.

Feb 19 • Alisa Sieber

The Loop Begins Here

A journal at fifteen, on repetition, self-editing, and the moment love started to feel like adjustment.

Feb 18 • 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 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

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

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