This is part two of a 2-part interview.
Hayley Roy is an Interior Designer and Entrepreneur, withexperience of running several businesses.
She has a son, aged 8 at the time of recording, and two adultstepdaughters.
Hayley is currently awaiting ADHD assessment after her son was diagnosed earlier this year with traits she recognises within herself.
She has experience of studying NLP and has a Diploma in Business Management.
Hayley has come onto the pod to talk about her experiences of parenting a neurodivergent child, her own journey to ADHD diagnosis as an adult and how she’s managed relationships, trauma, running businesses and mental health.
These two episodes with Hayley will explore:
-Hayley’s current journey through ADHD assessment and potential late diagnosis.
-How Hayley managed being a single parent of a neurodivergent child alongside her own potential ADHD traits.
-The internal debate as a parent about whether to ADHD medicate her child or not.
-Hayley’s experience of parenting neurodivergent children, as a lone parent, co-parent and with a new partner as a blended family.
-How she runs and maintain a business despite the ADHD traits and symptoms that she has to manage, which are further increasing in her forties.
-Ways Hayley manages anxiety, perimenopause and ADHD symptoms within work, parenting and relationships.
*Trigger warning*
Contains conversation about ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression, Emotional Dysregulation, Domestic Violence and Single Parenting.
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Hayley Roy can be found on Instagram as @adhdinteriordesigner and her podcast is @interiordesign.podcast
To find out more about Hayley’s business, find her at HarpDesign.co.uk