Hi, I’m Alena!
Ctrl Create is all about creativity without barriers — a place where ideas, experiments, and inspiration come together. It’s where we explore how to live and work more creatively and intentionally. I take your attention and trust seriously, and I’m so excited to create a space where we can grow, learn, and make things together.
By subscribing to Ctrl Create, you’ll get longer essays that go deeper than a caption ever could, recipes, tips, obsessively researched guides that reflect my curiosity, and curated recommendations that bring together culture, mysticism, books, art, and ideas worth sharing. Motherhood is also part of this new chapter. Writing has always been the thread running through my life, but becoming a mother adds new dimensions. Ctrl Create will hold space for that too: the intersection of creativity and care, identity and change, the way life’s biggest shifts shape our art and our stories.
You can also find me on Instagram.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Twice-weekly newsletters
Expect thoughtful, idea-packed newsletters arriving twice a week. Each one brings you curated insights on creativity, writing, mysticism, motherhood, food, wellness, and culture—plus practical tools to help you make space for your own projects. Always with the goal of sparking something new in you.
On Wednesdays: essays on creativity, motherhood, wellness, culture, literature, food, etc.
On Sundays: Sunday Digest—recommendation for the week ahead + useful tips, guides, recipes, listicles, how-tos, etc.
With Substack you have the option to subscribe to Ctrl Create for free, but there’s also a paid option for $5/month or $30/year. While I want everyone to have access to my work, by being a paying subscriber, you’re giving me the ability to keep creating. Using this button, you can get 50% discount ($2.50/month or $15/year).
Full access to Archive for paid subscribers
I’ve been writing, collecting, and experimenting for years. Think essays, creative exercises, workshop prompts, behind-the-scenes notes, and more. As a paying subscriber you will get access to full archive.
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