Speaker: Lauren Jaynes
Please share your first name, age (or age range), and what brought you to Grey Matters—what were you struggling with?
Lauren Jaynes: Hi, my name is Lauren. I am 24 years old. Um, and I decided to come to Grey Matters because I dealt with severe aura migraines, which basically impaired my vision, um, for about 30 minutes, and then I just had a horrible migraine the rest of the day, and it really started to impact, um, my work and my productivity and anything that I needed to do throughout the day.
Before you started, how was that affecting your daily life (sleep, focus, mood, work/school, relationships)?
Lauren Jaynes: Before I started neurofeedback, it really started to affect the way that I was able to work during the day. If this was um a migraine that I had towards the beginning of the day, it just really set the tone for not being productive, being in an upset mood, and just really not being able to get anything done. Um, and then same thing, if the migraine started towards the end of the day, it was just difficult for me, um, you know, to be in a good mood and, you know, to get sleep or, or even be able to sleep through the night.
What made you decide to try neurofeedback with us?
Lauren Jaynes: I decided to try neurofeedback because I had a few of my coworkers who were going through their own problems, um, with the way that they were feeling in their performance, um, and they had suggested that I started to go and get my brain trained. Um, I also learned from Courtney her experience, um, when going through neurofeedback, as well as the story of her son Grayson and what he was able to overcome.
What was your experience like during training (sessions, comfort level, and support from our team)?
Lauren Jaynes: My training sessions are always super relaxful. I never feel stressed out or anxious about any of the procedures going through. Um, the technicians are super helpful with kind of walking through exactly what they're doing. They helped answer any of my questions that I had or just any concerns about. The way I would be feeling. Um, and then they also did a great job of following up, you know, the next couple of days asking, did anything seem out of the ordinary, any mood swings, um, anything that's kind of shifted within the last 24 hours to then be able to kind of adjust the protocol that I was doing.
When did you first notice changes (about how many sessions/weeks)?
Lauren Jaynes: So the last time I've had a migraine was back in October of 2025. Um, and I probably noticed my changes in results probably about two months after that. Um, that's when I really thought to myself that, wow, I haven't had a migraine, um, or even an aura migraine in a really long time. Um, and I wasn't having, you know, these constant just visual deterrence every time that I would look at a bright light. Um, but again, we weren't really sure what was triggering it. So I'd probably say after about two months is when I really started to notice that I wasn't getting the migraines that I was in the past.
What specific changes have you noticed that matter most to you? (Example: sleep, calm, focus, anxiety, motivation, confidence)
Lauren Jaynes: Some specific changes that mattered the most to me is obviously, you know, not getting migraines anymore. Those were super detrimental to um being productive, how I worked, and just being able to communicate with others, uh, whenever I would have kind of, uh, an aura migraine attack, I guess is what you could call it. Um, but it also kind of helped me decrease my anxiety around the fear of having, um, a migraine or an aura migraine. So that really helped, um, In the overall, uh, sessions that I was doing.
How has that impacted your life—your relationships or your performance?
Lauren Jaynes: So this has impacted my life just from a productivity standpoint at work, but also with my relationships. Um, whenever I would get one of these aura migraines, I would always be just in a bad mood. I didn't want to talk to anybody because my brain was hurting. I didn't feel great. So, not Having these migraine attacks anymore has kind of helped my relationship um with my co-workers, with family, with friends, um, to just be in a better mood instead of constantly, you know, being on edge about getting a migraine or just feeling the aftereffects of having one.
What would you tell someone who’s on the fence or feeling nervous? (Optional add-on: “In one sentence, what has Grey Matters meant to you?”)
Lauren Jaynes: If you're on the fence about starting neurofeedback, I would just ask yourself, you know, what harm could it do? The last thing that I wanted to do was to be medicated for these migraines. Um, so, you know, my next obvious step was let me try neurofeedback, and it honestly was the best thing I could have done. I, you know, I'm not worried or anxious about having to be medicated for the rest of my life before my migraines. Um, I'm not worried about, you know, if I'm in the car and all of a sudden I get a migraine attack and now I can't see out of my eye and it's, you know, prohibiting me to be able to drive. Um, so gray matters has meant to me, um, The most help that I've probably received from my migraines without having to go um through to a neurologist to go and, and get, um, you know, medication, which is something I really didn't wanna have to do.
