Alejandro Betancourt
Writing / 03

Writing is how I process, question, and create.

Thinking Through It is where I stay with questions about identity, relationships, parenting, belief, and the choices that shape a life.

“We are not the same in every room because every room asks something different of us.”

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Thinking Through It

Stay with the questions.

A weekly publication about identity, relationships, parenting, belief, and the choices that shape a life—written to understand, not to perform or preach.

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Selected essays

Questions worth returning to.

Each introduction unfolds as it enters the reading line.

IdentityThe Person You Think I Am

On the versions of us that live in other people—and what happens when we outgrow the role a relationship expects.

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PerceptionThe Person I Thought You Were

How the stories we build about other people can become more familiar than the people themselves.

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FriendshipLike a Brother

On friendship, loyalty, and the pain that follows when an unspoken bond stops meaning the same thing to both people.

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ExpectationsThe Contracts Nobody Signed

We often live by agreements no one discussed—and feel betrayed when someone else breaks rules they never knew existed.

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BeliefThe Emotional Infrastructure We Think We Need

What happens when the structures that once made us feel safe begin limiting the life we are trying to build.

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Publication

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Books / Published writing

Some questions ask for more room.

The books make room for ideas that need more than an essay.

Cover of Thinking Through Parenting: A Different Conversation About Money — With Kids Series · Book One
Current series · 2025

Thinking Through Parenting

A Different Conversation About Money — With Kids

Money is never only about money.

The first book in an expanding series looks beyond allowances and saving rules to the beliefs children form about security, worth, freedom, power, and enough.

The series will continue with the conversations that shape how children understand themselves and the world they are inheriting.

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Selected practical books

Made to be used.

Front cover of Pequeños Foodies
Parenting · Food · English / Español · 2023

Pequeños Foodies / Little Foodies

Created to solve a practical problem at home: making nutritious food easier and more appealing for his twin boys. A private solution became a book others could use.

Reached #1 · Amazon Mexico Children’s Cooking · Jul 2025
Cover of Our Parents’ Lives: A Journal in Their Own Words
Memory · Guided journal · 2023

Our Parents’ Lives

Created while Alejandro was recording his own parents’ stories. The bilingual journal helps families preserve memories in their own words.

Cover of VisionMap Workbook: Crafting Your Trail to Success Part I
Reflection · Workbook · 2024

VisionMap Workbook

An 18-week framework for reflection, goals, resilience, relationships, and balance. Its underlying question—how growth becomes actionable—is now being revisited through HumanOS™.

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Earlier fiction & stories

Earlier experiments in fiction.

Stories about protection, emotion, and learning to live with uncertainty.

Front cover of Echoes of the Blast: A Nuclear Reckoning
Speculative fiction · 2023

Echoes of the Blast

Written during a period of global anxiety, this speculative novel became a way to think through fear, survival, responsibility, and the instinct to protect one’s family.

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Cover of Alex the Dragon: The Quest to Tame Its Fire
Children’s story · Emotional regulation

Alex the Dragon

A story about a young dragon learning that taming his fire does not mean losing it.

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