Episode Description
Alanna Bell has spent over two decades as a trauma-informed therapist, school counselor, and healing arts practitioner. But her most powerful credentials weren’t earned in classrooms—they were shaped in the quiet, painful spaces of her own recovery.Like so many helpers, Alanna was trained to listen, hold, and guide others toward healing. What she wasn’t trained for was how to fall apart.
Years into her career, she found herself facing the very thing she’d helped others navigate: addiction, shame, and the unraveling of a carefully held-together life.What followed was not a clean or linear redemption story—but a raw, deeply human journey back to wholeness. Through treatment, truth-telling, and long-term recovery, Alanna discovered what she now shares with others: healing is possible, but it doesn’t come through perfection. It comes through honesty, community, and grace.Today, she blends clinical insight, lived experience, and spiritual depth to support others—especially those in helping professions—who find themselves on roads they never meant to take.
The Road I Never Meant to Take is her first book, and the beginning of many overdue conversations.The Road I Never Meant to Take, unfolds through a series of deeply personal letters written by a character known only as L—a therapist in recovery whose voice carries the lived experiences of Alanna and countless others she has worked with along the way. Through L, readers are invited into the quiet truths that often go unspoken in the lives of helpers and healers. The result is a memoir that is both intimately personal and universally relatable.
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Years into her career, she found herself facing the very thing she’d helped others navigate: addiction, shame, and the unraveling of a carefully held-together life.What followed was not a clean or linear redemption story—but a raw, deeply human journey back to wholeness. Through treatment, truth-telling, and long-term recovery, Alanna discovered what she now shares with others: healing is possible, but it doesn’t come through perfection. It comes through honesty, community, and grace.Today, she blends clinical insight, lived experience, and spiritual depth to support others—especially those in helping professions—who find themselves on roads they never meant to take.
The Road I Never Meant to Take is her first book, and the beginning of many overdue conversations.The Road I Never Meant to Take, unfolds through a series of deeply personal letters written by a character known only as L—a therapist in recovery whose voice carries the lived experiences of Alanna and countless others she has worked with along the way. Through L, readers are invited into the quiet truths that often go unspoken in the lives of helpers and healers. The result is a memoir that is both intimately personal and universally relatable.
Links
- Allana Writes
- www.AlannaBellWrites.com
- www.SoulWiseInstitute.com
- alannajbell@gmailcom
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