I realised all those external things I'd placed worth in, my job, my home, I didn't have. This was the first time I couldn't run away".
One of the things I've learned in the six months I've known Alison is that she believes in fate, and all these factors point to paths towards a destination, while Alison is still involved with modelling and the industry, from that moment on the changes started to happen, she'd been involved with wellness and mindfulness for a while but in those days and hours of her recovery they wouldn't just be tools to beat something, they were building blocks to her true self.
Perhaps it is causing a separation between herself and most of her fashion work, maybe it's the fate that she believes in but she got to a place where she can say with deep conviction "I like myself", a far cry from the 31 year old that left America on a trans-Atlantic flight and had no self-esteem or place any value on herself. Now as the thousands of people that watch her on Instagram know Alison has become self-assured, accepting of her emotions and the concept of self-worth, each day she's live talking about dealing with her emotions, her new life and the adjustments she keeps making to progress and move forward, "it's like getting addicted to feeling this good" she says.
"I wouldn't risk going back, predominantly I've started to have fun with life, I made a decision I wanted to hold on to this feeling, it was a game changer" as it would turn out to be for the people who now take part in the interactive sessions she holds, guided meditations, how to eat properly, building tool kits for dealing with stress, anxiety, emotions and of course how to make almond milk matcha lattes.