My brain and my business: What setting up a psychology private practice taught me about my brain

Welcome to the Business of Psychology podcast, the show that helps you to reach more people, help more people and build the life you want to live by doing more than therapy. 

Hello. And before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to give you a little update on what's going to happen with this podcast over my maternity leave, because if you've been listening for a while, then you'll know that from October 14 I'm going to be on maternity leave, probably coming back at some point in January, but no specified date yet. 

But fear not! This podcast is one of my favourite things to do, and I really value you guys as listeners, I don't think I tell you enough. I'm often told by people in my life that I'm not very good at giving compliments, and I think that has translated into my podcasting. And I don't tell you guys how much I appreciate you as much as other podcasters do, and I really do though. And as I said, I love recording this podcast, I love writing the content for the podcast, and I love doing the interviews. So the podcast shall continue. We've already recorded, in fact, most of the episodes that are going to go out across my maternity leave. However, there will be some breaks. So in order to make sure we're giving you content consistently, we've planned to take a few breaks of just a week or two weeks here and there, where we're going to have a little pause in the content, just so that we can keep up with ourselves and make sure it keeps going through the whole maternity leave period. So the best thing you can do to make sure that that doesn't disrupt you and that you don't miss any of the episodes we put out there is to make sure that you subscribe to this podcast. So whatever podcast app you use, whether it's Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts, or we're on Amazon now as well, you can click the subscribe button, and this podcast will be delivered to you every week, every week that we put one out. So please do make sure that you're subscribed so that you don't miss any of the episodes that we do put out there. 

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Hello, and welcome to a slightly different episode of the Business of Psychology podcast.

So this episode is a bit different, it's a little bit more personal. And that is because I'm recording this in September, but it's going to be going out at the beginning of October, and October is ADHD Awareness Month. 

Now a lot of you won't know this about me, but a couple of years ago, I realised that I'm probably not the most neurotypical person. And although I don't really relate to the label ADHD, mostly because I don't consider myself to have deficit and I don't consider myself to be disordered, and I don't like giving other people that label either, I have found it really, really helpful to think about the ways in which I might be neurodiverse. And maybe some strategies that I've been taught that should work for me, in business particularly, don't work for me, and that that's okay. And letting go of some of the shame I've always felt around certain things that I'm not very good at has been very, very powerful for me. 

So, I've been approached...