About

Hi, my name is Makayla, and I created BrainPassion because I needed it.

I know that sounds cliché, but it’s the truth. I have my own sprinkles and splashes of neurospiciness all throughout my brain. Not knowing this growing up crushed my self-esteem. I constantly struggled with people telling me I was too loud, too picky, too rigid, bad, annoying, frustrating, bossy... the list goes on.

Of course, I learned to mask at an early age — but I wasn’t good at it. So instead, I used dark humor and depression to make it through. And to go along with it all, my brain was constantly triggering cortisol in an attempt to regulate, which led to nervous system dysregulation and a whole array of physical health problems.

I could go on for a while, but instead, I’ll simply say this: BrainPassion saved my life.

It turned the lights on in areas of my brain I thought would be shut off forever.

I built BrainPassion out of survival… but I grew it out of love — for kids like me.

Kids who feel everything deeply.
Kids who get overwhelmed by sounds, tags, expectations, or being misunderstood.
Kids who are smart and sensitive and spicy — but whose brains and bodies just don’t respond to the world the way it’s “supposed” to.

That’s where BrainPassion Kids™ was born.