I had never felt like visceral attraction to someone before.

Of course I thought my only options were guys.

So I just thought, again, I was coming from the church.

I thought, wow, I must be like really pure and wholly because nothing tempts me until she

walked in the room. She walked in the room. Hey all, welcome back to Made it out.

Today I am here with the artist and icon that we all know and love, Allison Stoner.

And I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but they are also the CEO of a wellness platform and

community movement genius. and one of the practical

tools available through movement genius is a seven-step guide to deepening

your mind and body connection. And I absolutely love it because it just so

correlates with my queer experience of being

disconnected from my body and then coming out and everything coming back online.

So I'm so honored and so grateful that I get to have this conversation today and be able to share it all with you and make sure you stay

tuned until the end of the episode to find out about the very generous gift that Allison and

Movement Genius is sharing with the made-out listeners.

Can we start with you telling us what inspired this work?

So I can share a little bit about my personal health journey which was after working for many years my body just kind of shut down and I had to go through a lot of different types of therapy and like rehabilitation and I wasn't able to connect to what I was feeling.

There's a condition, I don't know if it's called a condition, but the label is

Alexithymia, and it's the inability to name the sensations in your body to identify what you're experiencing and obviously

that makes it harder to not only recognize okay what does my body need right

now is it safe is it unsafe but also like how do I communicate if I

myself can't figure out what's going on so after I went through my healing

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