Laura Dallison's on my podcast today.

She talks very openly about what it's like living with a physical disability

and also having hormonal changes.

Not being listened to, not being believed, not being understood

and how hard it was for her to access hormones,

which have made a real difference to both her mental health and her physical house.

So being an advocate for yourself is so

important and we unpick this during the episode today. So Laura, thank you so much for coming

into the studio today because we have done a podcast before but it's probably about three years ago

and we did it remotely and it actually looked quite different. You look very different now.

Maybe because hormones, who knows.

You've got a story that I think will resonate with a lot of people.

Well, there's lots of stories that you've got.

You haven't got just one story.

But you've got a journey.

And I really want to highlight the importance that nobody is left out when it comes to the conversation about hormones.

And there are still quite a few groups of women that are really marginalised.

And I do think people with a physical disability come into one of those groups, sadly.

So tell me a bit about you.

So I had a spinal cord injury in 2019.

I was 42 and prior to that I was working full time but I was also a part-time yoga teacher.

I used to run sort of 50K a week.

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