If you’re new here, welcome.
If you landed here because someone sent you a link and said, “this feels like you,” I promise that was both a compliment and a warning.
About Alanna is where I write about family, systems, psychology, and the parts of life that don’t fit neatly into captions or conversations before coffee. It’s informed by lived experience, developmental psychology, and raising kids while quietly questioning everything I thought I knew.
There’s humour here. Mostly because without it, this would all be a bit much.
I write about:
- Parenting without pretending it’s a personality contest
- Blended family life without forcing a matching-pyjamas narrative
- Why structure, routine, and activities are less about achievement and more about regulation
- Systems that don’t always work, and the families filling the gaps anyway
- The long, awkward space between surviving and actually healing
This is not advice. It’s perspective. Take what works. Leave the rest.
Where to begin (so you don’t just scroll and panic)
If you’re not sure where to start, these pieces give a good sense of how my brain works:
• The Kids, the Chaos, and the Brady Bunch Reality Check
A love story without fireworks. Just calm, consistency, and a magic marker that changed everything.
• Making Peace With Being the Villain in Someone Else’s Story
The freedom that comes with being misunderstood.
• What My 12 Year Old Son Taught Me About Entrepreneurship Today
An honest look at blended family life, boundaries, and choosing respect over perfection.
• 2025: No One Asked, But Here’s What Actually Happened
Loud kids, big growth, wrong snacks, right life.
You don’t need to read them in order. This isn’t homework.
A quick note before you wander off
I don’t write to go viral.
I write to make sense of things. Sometimes that includes humour. Sometimes it includes research. Often it includes both, because that’s how life tends to work.
Some posts are light. Some are heavy. Most live somewhere in the middle, much like the people reading them.
If something here resonates, stay.
If not, no hard feelings. There’s a lot on the internet.
I’m glad you found your way here either way.
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