Welcome To BrainPassion

Whether you’re raising a neurodivergent child or healing your own nervous system — BrainPassion™ helps kids, teens, and women reconnect from the inside out using emotional tools, movement, and brain-based routines.

Who Do We Help?

  • Kids Support

    The BrainPassion Skool™ Membership gives you access to monthly emotional regulation tools, brain-body movement routines, and learning support based on The Regulationn Method™ — a system designed specifically for ADHD, autism, sensory struggles, and shutdown-prone learners.

  • Teen Support

    The Teen Stress Relief Kit™ gives you full access to the The Regulation Method™ — a brain-based system that helps you regulate emotions, reset your body, and feel more in control. Each month, you’ll get new tools to manage stress, build confidence, and support your mental health — your way.

  • Women Support

    The Women’s Retreat™ is a healing space for mothers, professionals, and neurodivergent women rebuilding nervous system safety. Using brain-body routines, emotional reparenting, and mindset tools, we help you shift long-standing patterns and return to your inner calm.

" I can say this course is the best thing I did for my overall health. My husband saw a huge difference in my daily outlook on life. My friends are always saying 'how can you be so happy all the time with all you are dealing with?' And the best part is I didn't require a single pill to get me past the trauma."

Marsha Jaramillo

Our Services

Healing Memberships

A 7-Day, One-Size-Fits-All Brain-Body Plan — designed for daily use and long-term support.

What’s Included:
✔️ Access to a growing library of brain-based regulation tools:
  • Affirmations
  • Brain exercises
  • Journal prompts
  • Acupressure & sensory resets
✔️ Weekly tips + tricks to support emotional balance
✔️ Private Mighty Network community for ongoing support
✔️ Discounts on 1:1 sessions and deeper reset plans

🧠 Built for busy humans who want simple, science-backed support without pressure or perfection.

Seven Day Plans

A custom-written, clinician-backed brain-body plan made just for you. Fast-track your emotional regulation and physical healing with targeted tools.

What’s Included:
✔️ One 1:1 intake consult to assess your brain-body symptoms
✔️ Personalized 7-day plan with:
  • Emotional rewiring tools
  • Brain exercises + detox support
  • Daily schedule with prompts and recovery tasks
✔️ Specific protocols: castor oil, acupressure, breathwork
✔️ Access to Mighty Network + check-in support

💥 Perfect if you’re in a flare, crash, or just need a reset that actually works.

Seven Week Plans

The most comprehensive path to healing trauma, rewiring your nervous system, and restoring emotional and physical regulation.

What’s Included:
✔️ Full intake assessment + brain-body decoding
✔️ Custom 7-week healing map using the Seven Essential Needs™
✔️ Weekly private coaching sessions (1:1 with Makayla)
✔️ Ongoing nurse support from Jenn Adams for clinical insight + symptom assistance
✔️ Weekly tools and routines tailored to your nervous system:
  • Brain exercises
  • Emotional processing (Amygdala Balance™)
  • Castor oil, red light, and breathwork protocols
✔️ Visual guides, tracking tools, and healing checklists

🌺 If you’re ready to stop surviving and finally stabilize, this is your full reset.

We work with people who are struggling with:

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Sensory overwhelm

  • Poor focus or coordination

  • Delayed development

  • “Invisible” behavior patterns that don’t respond to typical strategies

We regulate the brain systems that control the behavior.

Not sure which plan is right for you? No worries, join our free community and message Makayla directly, and she can give you an honest answer on which one seems best for you.

The Brain-Body Method

This is the method behind everything we teach at BrainPassion™.
It works for kids. It works for teens. It works for women.

When your emotional needs go unmet, your nervous system stays dysregulated — and your body pays the price.

What Is It?

The Brain-Body Method™ is a 7-step method that helps regulate the nervous system by helping you:

  • Reconnect to your emotional needs

  • Identify the hidden root behind stress patterns

  • Rewire your brain through targeted, body-based support

  • Heal the connection between emotional trauma and physical imbalance

It’s based on the Seven Emotional Needs every nervous system depends on to regulate, thrive, and grow.

The 7 Emotional Needs = The 7 Brain Buddies

These aren’t just “soft skills.” They are neurobiological requirements for safety, regulation, and long-term health.

  1. Stability (Stella) — The body’s need for safety, predictability, and groundedness

  2. Connection (Connie) — The nervous system’s need to feel seen, held, and not alone

  3. Acceptance (Ace) — The brain’s need to be safe in imperfection or rejection

  4. Value (Val) — The internal need to feel purposeful, capable, and worthy

  5. Honesty (Hon) — The need to express truth without fear or punishment

  6. Clarity (Clara) — The cognitive need for structure, understanding, and direction

  7. Trust (Trey) — The deep-rooted need for safety in surrender, support, and consistency

Why It Works:

Every physical system — immune, endocrine, digestive, cognitive — depends on neurological balance.

But chronic trauma, dysregulation, and unmet needs block that balance.

They cause inflammation. Hormonal dysfunction. Chronic stress. Behavioral spirals. Shutdown. Survival-mode mindsets.

The Regulation Method™ teaches you to balance these issues by:

  • Targeting the actual need underneath the behavior, belief, or burnout.

  • Rebuilding safety in the body through emotional and physical regulation.

  • Using practical tools, movement, and mindset work that regulates the hormonal system.

This Method Applies to:

  • Kids with behavior issues or sensory needs

  • Teens navigating identity, anxiety, or trauma

  • Women healing from people-pleasing, perfectionism, or chronic stress

  • Anyone with chronic illness tied to trauma, shutdown, or emotional suppression

  • Parents trying to regulate themselves so they can show up for their kids

  • People trying to heal the “why am I like this?” cycle for good

Science Meets Soul:

This system is supported by neuroscience, nervous system research, and real-life results.

And here’s the truth: This is the same growth cycle all living things go through — even plants.

If the root system is weak or unsupported, nothing can bloom.

Why we exist.

BrainPassion™ was created in honor of Lisa Marie Wood — a woman who gave everything to the people she loved, even when it meant losing parts of herself along the way.
She was vibrant, loyal, creative, and strong — but fear often silenced her, and self-protection kept her from fully stepping into her own light.

We carry her story with us, not as a tragedy — but as a mission.
To help others do the deep work of emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and self-trust...
so they can keep loving, enduring, and showing up — without abandoning themselves in the process.

Lisa is the reason we exist.

  • BrainPassion™ is a brain-based system that supports children’s development through emotional regulation, brain-body movement, and learning strategies. We help families create routines that strengthen brain pathways — leading to better behavior, smoother learning, and a calmer home.

    We serve:

    🧒 Neurodivergent Children & Their Families

    Parents of children ages 4–12 who are:

    • Struggling with ADHD, autism, sensory processing challenges, or developmental delays

    • Experiencing frequent meltdowns, shutdowns, or difficulty with focus and learning

    • Searching for a brain-based alternative to behavior charts, rigid therapy models, or one-size-fits-all strategies

    • Open to learning how emotional safety, movement, and executive function are built in the brain

    🧠 Adults Healing Emotional Patterns or Survival Responses

    Adults who:

    • Have ADHD, trauma responses, chronic stress, or difficulty staying regulated

    • Are actively working to reparent themselves and create healthier nervous system patterns

    • Are looking for daily, embodied tools (not just talk-based approaches) to reconnect to themselves, restore safety, and rebuild motivation and follow-through
      Are tired of traditional self-help and ready for something that actually shifts their nervous system

  • Kids often show dysregulation through behavior — tantrums, shutdowns, refusal, or hyperactivity.
    The Regulation Method™ helps you identify what emotional need is being missed underneath that behavior (like stability or connection), and then gives you a tool to meet that need directly.

    ✅ What it helps with:

    • Meltdowns

    • Transitions

    • Bedtime battles

    • Emotional communication

    • Learning frustration

    • Sensory overload

    We use kid-friendly tools like our Brain Buddy System™, visual check-ins, and body-based regulation games to make it understandable and fun — even for young or nonverbal kids.

  • Teen brains are still developing — especially in the areas tied to emotional regulation, identity, and decision-making.
    The Regulation Method™ helps teens connect with what’s happening inside, so they don’t shut down, lash out, or spiral into shame.

    ✅ What it helps with:

    • Anxiety or social overwhelm

    • Motivation struggles

    • Self-esteem + identity issues

    • Academic burnout

    • Emotional walls or passive shutdown

    • Trauma responses and big emotional waves

    We teach teens how to use the Seven Needs to decode their stress — so they can regulate themselves, communicate clearly, and feel more in control of their thoughts and actions.

  • Women — especially moms and caregivers — often carry emotional trauma, generational patterns, and chronic dysregulation without even realizing it.
    The Regulation Method™ helps women reconnect to themselves by uncovering unmet needs, rewiring nervous system patterns, and rebuilding safety — emotionally and physically.

    ✅ What it helps with:

    • People-pleasing, perfectionism, and burnout

    • Emotional shutdown and dissociation

    • Chronic stress, anxiety, and body-based symptoms

    • Difficulty setting boundaries or knowing your needs

    • Trauma healing and nervous system repair

    This is reparenting work, somatic regulation, and emotional retraining — all rolled into one practical system that women can finally feel safe using.

  • The core needs are the same — but how we teach and apply them changes with age and stage.

    • For kids, we use visuals, games, and movement

    • For teens, we focus on identity, ownership, and real-life choices

    • For women, we dive deeper into self-awareness, physical symptoms, and long-term nervous system healing

    Whether you’re supporting a child or healing your own brain, the path is the same:
    Meet the need → regulate the nervous system → restore the connection.

  • The Regulation Method™ is about more than “coping.”


    It’s about rewiring your nervous system at the root — so you can respond, not react. So your child can connect instead of meltdown.

    So you can finally breathe.

    Here’s what real results look like:

    For Kids:

    Behavior shifts because the brain feels safer.

    ✅ Fewer meltdowns, tantrums, and emotional outbursts
    ✅ Better transitions (bedtime, school, routines)
    ✅ Improved ability to name feelings + ask for help
    ✅ More motivation and focus during learning
    ✅ Stronger connection with caregivers and less resistance
    ✅ Increased body awareness and regulation through movement

    Instead of constantly reacting to chaos, kids start recognizing what their brain needs — and learn to meet it with support.

    For Teens:

    Teens stop spiraling and start understanding themselves.

    ✅ Reduced anxiety, overthinking, and avoidance
    ✅ Increased self-awareness and confidence
    ✅ Better coping strategies for peer pressure and school stress
    ✅ More emotional ownership without shutting down
    ✅ Clarity on identity, values, and what they actually need
    ✅ More trust in adults when they feel emotionally safe

    Teens don’t need lectures — they need language for what’s happening inside. This method gives them that language.

    For Women:

    This is the reparenting you didn’t know you needed.

    ✅ Less overwhelm, less shutdown, less guilt
    ✅ More emotional stability — even on chaotic days
    ✅ Recognition of trauma patterns and how to interrupt them
    ✅ Nervous system relief after years of tension, masking, or burnout
    ✅ A clear understanding of what your body + brain are trying to say
    ✅ Deeper connection with your child, partner, and yourself

    This isn’t surface-level self-care. It’s long-term regulation that shifts your hormones, your stress response, and your capacity to feel safe — in your own skin.

    And when one person heals? The whole system shifts.

    Whether you’re helping your child, supporting your teen, or regulating yourself — the Regulation Method™ brings safety, connection, and clarity to every layer of your life.

  • A full 7-step process — each session builds on the last:

    Session 1: Brain Assessment Consultation

    We begin with a private brain assessment to determine which side of the brain (left or right) is underactive or overstimulated.
    You’ll receive a full neuro-behavioral breakdown based on symptoms, brain-body imbalances, and emotional patterns.

    Includes:

    • Left vs. Right Brain Weakness evaluation

    • Nervous system regulation map

    • Emotional-neurological profile

    • (For kids) Learning behavior snapshot

    Session 2: Stability Brain-Body Balance (Stella)

    We address physical and emotional safety first.
    You’ll receive body-based tools to support grounding, routine, and nervous system regulation.

    Focus:

    • Fight-or-freeze responses

    • Sensory overwhelm

    • Home + routine setup

    • Core regulation exercises

    Session 3: Connection Brain-Body Balance (Connie)

    We work on rebuilding trust, co-regulation, and emotional attachment.
    This session strengthens relationship-based safety — especially for shutdown or avoidant patterns.

    Focus:

    • Social and emotional withdrawal

    • Resistance to support

    • Isolation or explosive behavior

    • Co-regulation exercises

    Session 4: Acceptance Brain-Body Balance (Ace)

    We help break perfectionism, internal shame, and performance-based worth cycles.

    Focus:

    • Fear of failure

    • Rejection sensitivity

    • Meltdowns during correction

    • Self-compassion tools + brain loops of self-talk

    Session 5: Value Brain-Body Balance (Val)

    We activate intrinsic motivation by reconnecting your child (or yourself) to strengths, purpose, and progress.

    Focus:

    • Learned helplessness

    • Attention-seeking behavior

    • Lack of effort or pride

    • Strength-building + reward alignment

    Session 6: Honesty Brain-Body Balance (Hon)

    We support expression of internal truth, needs, and stories — without fear of punishment or shutdown.

    Focus:

    • Emotional suppression

    • Lying, avoidance, or masking

    • Boundary setting and emotional transparency

    • Nervous system response to vulnerability

    Session 7: Clarity + Trust Integration (Clara + Trey)

    We bring the system together: creating safe routines, transitions, and habits that promote long-term regulation and trust in self.

    Focus:

    • Daily routine planning

    • Trust in structure + relationships

    • Clarity-based check-ins and self-reflection

    • Ongoing regulation plan

    🎓 What You’ll Walk Away With:

    • A full Brain-Body Regulation Plan based on your neurological + emotional needs

    • Targeted brain-side tools to balance underactive hemispheres

    • Tools for nervous system healing, academic readiness (for kids), and mindset resilience (for women + teens)

    • Printable check-ins + daily rhythms

    • 7 recorded sessions with support in between (if offered)

    💳 Pricing

    $1,500 for the full 7-session package

  • Yes! We break our Personalized Regulation Plan into 3 manageable phases — because we believe in accessibility without compromising boundaries.

    Here's how the payment plan works:

    • Phase 1 ($500): Covers Sessions 1–3

    • Phase 2 ($500): Covers Sessions 4–5

    • Phase 3 ($500): Covers Sessions 6–7

    Each payment is due before beginning the next phase.
    If a payment isn’t made, sessions will not be extended or rescheduled — this helps us protect time and energy for all families.

    🌱 Need a More Affordable Option?

    We get it — life is expensive and healing takes time.
    That’s why we offer low-cost, high-value alternatives:

    • Join our Membership Program to access our Core Regulation Plan (this includes the full 7-Day Brain Buddy Challenge!)

    • Or start inside the Free Community Space for weekly brain tips, connection, and support — no payment required.

    You’re not falling behind. You’re finding your next step — and we’ve got one for every season.

    👉 Join the Membership or Explore the Free Community

Our Foundational Framework

At the core of BrainPassion is the The Brain-Body Method™ helps people understand what their mind and body are truly asking for when life feels hard, heavy, impossible, or out of control.

It explains that the brain requires seven essential emotional needs in order to feel at homeostasis. When these needs aren’t met, the brain’s synapses and neural networks begin to misfire, and can cause serious endocrine and nervous system imbalances. In other words, the wires start crossing, and communication in the brain becomes chaotic.

These needs aren’t just emotional — they are physiological and neurological signals that determine whether your brain feels safe enough to regulate, learn, connect, or even try.

When these needs are off, we see depression, meltdowns, inconsistency, low motivation — and we feel anxiety, overwhelm, headaches, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, immune issues, allergies...

Long story short: we feel a fight between our mind and our body every time we try to accomplish our goals.

We have one brain and one body — and they must be connected and regulated to function.
When they are disconnected, it means low motivation, headaches, anxiety and uncontrollable chronic physical and mental conditions, the list is just too long.

"Your nervous system is doing what it’s been conditioned to… until you give it a new pattern, you’ll stay stuck.”

— Makayla Wood

Why It Works

Because it addresses the root of the struggle:

  • Emotional needs that weren’t met

  • Brain-body systems that got disconnected

  • Patterns that were protective, but are no longer serving you

We don’t teach people how to “cope.” We help them rebuild the system that is stuck in survival.

This Work Is for You If…

You (or your child) are stuck in emotional shutdown, big reactions, or constant overwhelm

  1. You’ve tried traditional therapy or behavior tools — and they didn’t reach the root

  2. You want to understand what your brain and body are really asking for

  3. You’re ready to restore a sense of calm, clarity, and trust in yourself

To Sum It All Up.

This is about more than healing symptoms. It’s about returning to who you were before survival became your story. We're here to guide that process — with tools grounded in neuroscience, built for real life, and designed for change that lasts.

If you’ve been stuck in anxiety, shutdown, chaos, or confusion, there’s a reason.