DV Brain Change Meditations

Episode Title: Session 8 – Walking in Her Shoes: The Felt Practice of Empathy This guided meditation invites listeners to take one of the most vital—and vulnerable—steps in the change process: imagining the experience of the person they hurt. In alignment with Session 8’s focus on reconstructing the scene and building empathy, “Walking in Her Shoes” creates a quiet, embodied space where awareness...

Episode Title: Session 7 – Facing the Mirror: The Beginning of Doing Better This meditation invites you into stillness—not to escape—but to gently face what you’ve avoided. In step with Session 7’s work on cognitive interventions, “Facing the Mirror” guides you through a felt process of honest reflection. You won’t be asked to relive past harm, but to observe it—with clarity, not shame. As you vis...

Episode Title: Session 6 – The River of Your Thoughts With soft river sounds and foglike focus, this guided meditation invites you to step back from the noise of your thoughts and sit—quietly—on the riverbank. In harmony with Session 6, which introduces stress management and cognitive awareness, you’ll practice the foundational skill of observing your internal narratives without reacting to them....

Session 5 – Cooling the System: HALT and Nervous-System Reset Sink into slow ambient tones and let shoulders drop as we guide you through the Milton-Erickson–style “Cooling the System” meditation. The script uses a simple flame-turning metaphor to embody Session 5’s lesson: stress heats the nervous system degree by degree until we boil over—unless we pause and HALT. In DV Brain Change, HALT stands...

Episode Title: Session 4 – Brain Change Prep: "I Am Rewiring" With ambient tones drifting from alpha into theta, this meditation guides you straight into the electrical heart of Session 4—brain change by deliberate practice. Eyes soft, breath slow, you’ll visualize two trails inside your mind’s landscape. One is the familiar track of reflex— anger → explosion, shame → shutdown. The other is a bare...

Episode Title: Session 3 – Changing What you Do Description Sink the shoulders, loosen the jaw, let breathing find its own tempo—then picture a fork in the road. One track is the worn‑in route of old reactions; the other is an unmapped trail that begins with a single, different move. This meditation embodies Session 3’s theme: lasting change is behavioral and begins the moment you do one thing dif...

Episode Title: Session 2 – Taking 100% Responsibility for What You Did and Are Doing Now Description This session invites you into a slow‑tide breath and a mirror that shows only one thing: your own behavior. With eyes closed or softly focused, you’ll notice there’s nothing to fix, no one else to blame—just the honest image of your choices. The purpose is simple: trade denial for clarity and feel...

Episode 1: Orientation – What Is DV Brain Change? Welcome to the DV Brain Change Meditation Podcast Series . In this special orientation episode, therapist and creator Glenn Ostlund introduces the purpose, structure, and personal philosophy behind this unique fusion of neuroscience, sound therapy, and guided meditation. Drawing from the Brain Change curriculum by Ronald and Patricia Potter-Efron,...