Madeleine Stewart

So like I was trying to do all these things and I came to a realisation that no matter what I did, I would always be disabled.

And I think the part of me wanted to do those things so that people would like me.

if I could, you know, have straightened hair, if I could have looked the way that other girls did, that maybe I would be accepted despite my disability.

And then when I got older and I started having friends with disability and these wonderful, powerful disability advocates that became more educated, I realized that I shouldn't, I'm not beautiful despite my disability and I'm not proud of my body despite my disability.

I'm all one and this is who I am and I

will nurture and love me because there's only one of me and there's only one person that looks like me and that is my beautiful body and that is my body confidence.

And that wavers.

It wavers day to day, let's be real, but everyone's does.

And I think it's important to listen and change the narrative in your mind and the way that you view yourself.

That is powerful because you are who you hear in your head and that can be the loudest voice if you let it.

Oh girl, I learned so many new things.

Some of them I can say on air, some of them I can't.

I got a lot of tips.

I would say something that I learned generally is that when we think of sex holistically, not just, you know, the act of having sex,

when we think of it as connection, touch, like the humanity of it all, it's so, it can be really sexy and it can be so fulfilling.

And you see the difference in the relationships of people who invest holistically in their partner and this intimate experience.

I mean, I'm not yucking anyone's yum.

There is a time and a place just to like wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.

But there's also like wonderful joy that can come from like this intimacy.

Yeah.