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Sunday Digest: How to Build a Creative Career
Authenticity is invaluable, even if originality is non-existent.
Sep 14
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Alena Falkengren
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An Heirloom Kind of Fall
Plus what to read and watch.
Sep 5
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Alena Falkengren
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August 2025
The End of Summer
It’s a dangerous game to rush the time, you blink, and it’s all gone in what feels like an instant, but I can’t help myself.
Aug 28
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Alena Falkengren
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One Month Postpartum: Cry When the Baby Cries
Transitions are rarely, if ever, easy. Our brains get used to things and it takes time to rewire them, even if we transition into something we…
Aug 23
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Alena Falkengren
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What I Wish I Knew About Having a Baby
You will still be you.
Published on Motherloved
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Aug 21
How I Make Time for Creative (or Any Other) Work with a Newborn
I’ve stopped measuring creativity by output and started noticing it in the little ways I’m still making, imagining, and expressing. Not everything has…
Aug 17
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Alena Falkengren
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Why Am I Obsessed with Ballerina Farm?
Hannah insists she’s not the queen of tradwives, just living her life. That denial keeps the whole thing slippery, which is perfect for the internet.
Aug 11
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Alena Falkengren
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Breastfeeding is a Bitch, Formula is Evil?
Just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Aug 10
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Alena Falkengren
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An Unfiltered Birth Story
I went into labor thinking I could manage it with calm breathing and mantras. That if I trusted my body enough, it would carry me gently across the…
Aug 5
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Alena Falkengren
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July 2025
"If You Are Reading This, I’m Dead"
On keeping journals and what happens to them once you die.
Jul 19
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Alena Falkengren
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Are We The Last to Make Human Art?
On AI and a loss of creativity.
Jul 2
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Alena Falkengren
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June 2025
On Motherhood, Mothering, and Creative Existence
Will I be able to write something of value now that my time no longer belongs to me even though I couldn’t do it when my time was entirely my own?
Jun 26
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Alena Falkengren
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