The Road I Never Meant to Take with Alanna J. Bell
About this episode
Alanna J. Bell shares her journey of recovery and healing as a trauma-informed therapist.
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…
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