Miranda Jane

I’m Miranda Jane, and I’m the equivalent of a “horse-whisperer” for the neurodivergent nervous system.

I first learned that I had a special skill when I was about 8 years old and the Girl Scout camp counselors asked if they could put me in the tent with a “troubled” kid, because I had a soothing effect on them.

As an official camp counselor 10 years later, I was requested to visit certain children at bedtime to help them fall asleep. I would imagine connecting my heart to theirs, and then, gently, I would start slowing down my own heart. The children would drift off to sleep smiling, and one kid coined a phrase that stuck: “Miranda’s magic!”

But in my own life, I struggled. I was accepted into a rigorous program at an Ivy League college, but working my way through it nearly killed me.

I developed PTSD, and then my body went into primary ovarian failure. After that, my memory and ability to think deteriorated so sharply that I no longer recognized my own mind. Today I know this was an Autistic burnout with skill loss, but at the time I just assumed I was “crazy” and “broken.”

I waited tables for 15 years after graduating, afraid to push my brain too hard again.

With medication and time, I got better. Eventually, I went to grad school and studied counseling, ultimately training in Somatic Experiencing (SE). It was SE that put my PTSD into remission, and using it to help other people feel better is my calling.

Finally, at 48 years old, I learned that I’m Autistic and ADHD, and now it all makes sense.

My sensitive nervous system is both a blessing and a curse, but it has sparked what’s become my life mission: To help late identified neurodivergent people who struggle with a hair trigger fight/flight response, chronic dissociation, meltdowns, shutdowns, and burnout, learn how to work WITH their nervous system instead of against it, and build up love and trust for themselves at long last.