Chelsea Leyland... on "Sisters Interrupted," advocating for fair access to medical cannabis, motherhood, and the importance of period literacy
The Gurls Talk Podcast
Gurls Talk
4.8 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Inspired by my own journey with mental health, I founded Girls Talk, our own safe space where we share, listen and support each other. |
| 0:09.9 | So get cozy and join me. Adjua Burr for some much-needed girls' talk. |
| 0:16.8 | Today I'm thrilled to have my dear friend Chelsea Layland on the podcast. Chelsea is a DJ, cannabis and |
| 0:24.5 | epilepsy activist, filmmaker and the co-founder of Women's Health Platform Looney. Chelsea and I have had a |
| 0:31.9 | wide-ranging conversation about her new documentary Sisters Interrupted, her pregnancy journey and so much more. |
| 0:40.7 | I don't even know where to begin, babe. |
| 0:42.9 | I watched your incredible, moving and powerful documentary sisters interrupted. |
| 0:49.0 | For anyone who hasn't watched the documentary, can you tell our amazing community a bit about the film? |
| 0:56.2 | Oh, well, thank you for saying that. So it's really a tale of two sisters. And I think, |
| 1:02.7 | you know, the narrative became more of a love story between myself and my sister Tamzin. |
| 1:08.8 | And the focus is on epilepsy and I think how that condition can |
| 1:15.6 | affect people differently and I have epilepsy and my sister has a more severe form of the |
| 1:21.3 | condition and I've been really fortunate in that about six years ago well actually longer now |
| 1:27.4 | eight years ago was introduced to |
| 1:29.3 | medical cannabis and cannabinoids and started using it as an anti-convulsant medicine and it |
| 1:35.9 | allowed me to wean off all of my pharmaceuticals and I'm still seizure-free as a result. |
| 1:43.7 | And not to say that medical cannabis is a solution for everyone with epilepsy, |
| 1:48.7 | because it's not, but my family's been fighting for many, many years |
| 1:53.7 | to try and gain access for my sister, Tamzin, |
| 1:57.0 | but because of the policies in the UK and the fact that she lives in full-time care, which is |
| 2:03.1 | run by the NHS, our public healthcare system, we aren't able to even get her the opportunity |
| 2:09.3 | to trial this medicine. So it's obviously been a really long journey and so much has happened |
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