About Miranda
Miranda has spent many years exploring the nervous system through both her personal and professional life. As a massage therapist, yoga teacher and trauma-informed coach, she has long been curious about how our bodies respond to stress and the different ways people learn to regulate themselves.
More recently, that curiosity has become something she shares with her son Jakob, who has ADHD, as they continue discovering how LYEONS Heart can fit into everyday family life.
Miranda was one of the first people to order a pre-production LYEONS Heart. Since then, she has generously shared the moments that helped, the moments when she forgot to reach for it and the questions that each experience opened up. Her reflections have taught us something important: support has to make sense in real life, including the untidy and unexpected parts.
“Something I could actually take with me”
For much of her life, travelling had felt natural to Miranda. She had lived overseas, backpacked alone and found confidence in working things out as she went.
That began to change during her perimenopause years. Anxiety started to feel more physical and less predictable. Sometimes her heart and adrenaline seemed to react before her mind could make sense of what was happening.
One experience stayed with her was when she was on a Eurostar journey to Paris, the queues and back-to-back border checks became overwhelming and she experienced a panic attack. For someone who had once travelled the world so freely, it felt unfamiliar and unsettling.
Miranda already had years of experience with yoga, breathwork, meditation, massage therapy and trauma-informed practice. Yet she also knew that a busy terminal does not always offer the time, space or attention needed for a formal technique.
When she first heard about LYEONS Heart, its portability mattered.
“I wanted something I could actually take with me.”
She did not see it as a replacement for everything she had learnt. She wondered whether it could become another tool to carry into the moments that are difficult to predict.
The moment the airport began to close in
A later journey gave Miranda the chance to find out if LYEONS Heart can support her journey.
She and Jakob were travelling home from Mykonos. They had passed through security and the airport seemed reassuringly small, with only a few gates. At first, Miranda thought it would be not too challenging but when everyone started moving into the gate area, things quickly changed.
The space became crowded and claustrophobic. People began forming a line even though seats had already been allocated. A child was crying. Passengers kept squeezing past, and Miranda felt she had no space of her own. She noticed herself becoming more and more stressed.
Her familiar instinct was to work on her breathing. But when anxiety is already building, Miranda sometimes finds that concentrating on a breathing technique makes her feel as though she is getting it wrong, adding another layer of pressure.
This time, she brought out LYEONS Heart.
She focused on the heartbeat-like sensation in her hand. The airport did not become quieter and the queue did not disappear, but she felt herself settled enough to recognise that she still had a choice.
“I think I can make a decision to remove myself from this position. I don’t need to be here.”
Miranda stepped out of the line with Jakob and their luggage and found somewhere else to stand. From there, her thoughts began to feel more rational: everyone was getting on the same plane; she already had a seat; she did not need to be at the front.
The change was small, but meaningful. Instead of simply enduring the environment while the stress continued to build, she felt able to respond to what she needed.
“It helped in that moment. It felt comforting.”
She continued holding LYEONS Heart as they moved towards the plane, putting it away only when she needed both hands to climb the steps safely.
What stayed with us was not a story about making a difficult environment suddenly easy. It was the moment Miranda felt able to create a little space inside it, make a different decision and continue her journey.
Remembering is part of the learning
On days when she expects travel, crowds or a demanding situation, she can prepare. LYEONS Heart goes into her bag and is easier to remember.
The unexpected moments can be different.
One afternoon, an email arrived and she felt herself moving through fight, flight and eventually freeze. It was not until the following morning that she looked across the room and realised LYEONS Heart had been there all along.
“I’d completely forgotten it was there.”
She laughed when she told us, but the experience revealed something honest. Knowing what can support us and remembering to reach for it while overwhelmed are not always the same thing.
Rather than treating that as failure, Miranda became curious about habit and familiarity. Perhaps a wellbeing tool becomes easier to remember when it has already found a natural place in ordinary life, not only during moments of distress.
Learning together with Jakob
That question shaped how Miranda introduced LYEONS Heart to her son Jakob.
When we met Jakob, we were impressed by what a bright, kind and polite young man he was! That first impression gave us another way of understanding this part of their story: he was not simply being handed his mother’s solution, but being invited to explore it in his own way.
Miranda had already been teaching Jakob that difficult feelings did not need to be pushed down. They could be felt, expressed and moved through. Introducing LYEONS Heart during calm moments grew naturally from that approach.
She did not want it to appear only when something was difficult or after anxiety had already taken hold. She wanted him to become familiar with it during calmer moments first.
“I wanted him to know it before he needed it.”
Sometimes they used it before bed. At other times it became part of meditation or a quiet evening at home. There was no expectation that Jakob should respond in the same way as his mother or choose the same rhythm.
Over time, he began forming his own relationship with it. He sometimes preferred different rhythms, reached for it at different times or noticed things Miranda had not noticed herself.
Later, Jakob received his own engraved LYEONS Heart. When we visited their home, there was no carefully planned demonstration. The two devices simply felt like part of the household.
It did not feel as though Miranda had handed Jakob a fixed answer. They were continuing to discover something together and that moments of connection.
Questions that keep shaping LYEONS
Every conversation with Miranda seems to open another question.
Could children build a different relationship with regulation if they first explored it while calm? Could simple, age-appropriate resources help families talk about the nervous system before life feels difficult? How can a wellbeing tool become familiar without becoming something a person feels they must rely on?
Whilst we work on final answers, Miranda pays attention to real life, reflects on what she notices and generously shares those observations with us. And for us, that is why her feedback has been so valuable.
Her airport experience showed how a small pause could create room for a different decision. Her forgotten device showed that access and habit are not the same thing. Her experience with Jakob reminded us that two people in the same family can use the same technology in entirely individual ways.
These stories continue to shape how we think about LYEONS Heart: not as a polished solution that makes every difficult moment disappear, but as a portable wellbeing tool that people can explore in their own way, alongside the knowledge, relationships and practices they already have.
We are incredibly grateful to Miranda and Jakob for sharing that exploration with us. Their story is a reminder that understanding the nervous system is not something we finish.
It is something we continue learning about together.
Continue listening
To learn more about families and friends sharing LYEONS Heart together, listen to Ink’s story.
To hear more about how people with ADHD use LYEONS Heart, listen to Trisha’s story.
To hear about using LYEONS Heart during travel and moments of panic, listen to Kate’s story.
This article shares Miranda’s personal experiences with LYEONS Heart. Her reflections describe what she noticed in her own life and should not be interpreted as evidence of therapeutic benefit or clinical effectiveness.
LYEONS Heart is a general wellbeing device. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. Individual experiences will naturally differ. We share stories like Miranda’s because listening to how people use LYEONS Heart in everyday situations helps us continue learning and improving.
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