Are you a late-night scroller who swears it “helps you relax”? Yeah… this episode is for you. Landis sits down with neurologist and sleep specialist Dr. Chris Allen to break down how to actually build better sleep habits with epilepsy — not just why sleep matters, but what to do when your brain won’t shut off.

Tune in for realistic tools that can help protect your sleep — and your seizure threshold — without turning into a monk or throwing your phone across the room.

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Check out more from Sleep Dr. Chris here: https://www.sleepdrchris.com/

Shout out to the folks who help keep hope alive in the epilepsy community! Thank you sponsors SK life science & Neurelis AND community partners Epilepsy Foundation of America, Danny Did Foundation, and Epilepsy Alliance America!

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Teaching high school is hard. Teaching high school with epilepsy? Next level. Charlie joins Landis to talk about navigating the classroom with epilepsy — including student teaching, when seizures required using a wheelchair.

They share what it’s taken to advocate for safety at work, why being friends with the school nurse is basically a survival skill, and why explaining epilepsy to new students every year feels a lot like coming out: vulnerable, emotional, and rooted in the hope of being accepted.

Because sometimes the hardest part isn’t the seizures — it’s explaining them, repeatedly, forever.

Be sure to follow the podcast on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok! @whattheefpodcast

Shout out to the folks who help keep hope alive in the epilepsy community! Thank you sponsors Neurelis & SK life science AND community partners Epilepsy Foundation of America, the Danny Did Foundation, & Epilepsy Alliance America!

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This week, Landis sits down with Jason — a longtime nurse and fellow person with epilepsy — to talk about what seizure action plans really look like in real life. Not the perfect-on-paper version. The messy, human, constantly evolving one.

Jason shares his own epilepsy journey, what it’s like as a school nurse, caring for hundreds of kids while managing seizures himself, and why seizure action plans matter more than most of us realize.

They unpack what should actually be included, how plans change over time, and why not having one (yes, even as an advocate 👀) is way more common than we admit. Note: Landis openly admits she didn’t have one at the time of recording… but swore she would by the time this episode came out. Accountability, baby.

👉 Want help creating your own seizure action plan?

Copy & paste into your phone: https://www.whattheefpodcast.com/resources

More templates: https://seizureactionplans.org/sap-examples/

Shout out to sponsors Neurelis & SK life science AND community partners Epilepsy Foundation of America, Danny Did Foundation, and Epilepsy Alliance America! Thank you for supporting “What the Ef?!” podcast!

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