Sitting beside your grief guided sleep meditation for comfort and healing
SLEEP MEDITATION with Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
0:00 – **Welcome & Guided Grief Meditation Introduction** 3:45 – **Arriving in the Present Moment (Safe Enough to Rest)** 7:20 – **Calming Breath & Grounding for Grief and Anxiety** 10:30 – **Hand on Heart Self-Compassion Practice** 14:25 – **Gentle CBT for Grief: Thoughts as Passing Clouds** 19:15 – **Full Body Scan Relaxation for Grief** 29:55 – **Releasing "I Should" Thoughts & Self-Blame** 35:15 – **Healing Heart Space & Planting a Seed of Kindness** 46:10 – **Grief in the Body: Hips, Legs, Feet & Feeling Supported** 58:40 – **Deep Rest with Grief: Soothing Affirmations & Closing** 😌 Beyond Anxiety — $119 (includes one free counselling session for a limited time, expires 17th Feb 2026). If you're feeling stretched thin, this is my gentle, practical course: 8 chapters, a printable workbook, and 10+ short videos you can do at your own pace. Start here → lauren-ostrowski-fenton-s-school.teachable.com/p/beyond-anxiety Sleep aids on shopify - little games to help you sleep and feel ok https://lauren-ostrowski-fenton-2.myshopify.com/?utm_medium=product_shelf&utm_source=youtube ☕️ Let's stay close (come say hi) Substack: https://substack.com/@laurenostrowskifenton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenostrowskifenton/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4YfDM1kGnepG5NG4poCwK0 Medium: https://medium.com/@laurenostrowskifenton 🤗 Support the work (only if it feels good) Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/Laurenostrowskifenton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laurenostrowskifenton Gentle reminder My content is supportive, not medical advice—please reach out to a health professional for personal care. With warmth, Lauren Original vocals and video © 2025 Lauren Ostrowski Fenton Come sit with me—let's slow down, sleep better, and feel more like ourselves. My courses (gentle, practical, cozy) Sitting Beside Your Grief" Coming soon!!!! Watch this space(or look on Teachable) This is a gentle, free mini course offering you a soft place to rest with your grief, beginning with a guided meditation/body scan and expanding into simple, cosy practices. The course will grow to include a caring card game for sad moments and short modules on grounding, meeting your thoughts kindly, and staying human in grief. I'm creating this alongside my full-time work as a behaviour support specialist, and I'm slowly building a little nest of supports here for you to return to whenever you need. 😴 Rest Rise and Roar — Founding Cohort $97 (starts Feb 28) One gentle week at a time: short lessons, calming practices, tiny actions, friendly circle. Join here → lauren-ostrowski-fenton-s-school.teachable.com/p/rest-and-rising 🛏️ Sleep Mastery — start tonight. $29 Practical tools for calmer evenings and deeper sleep. Learn more → https://lauren-ostrowski-fenton-s-school.teachable.com/p/sleep-mastery-unlock-the-secrets-to-deep-sleep-and-rest 💝 Free gift (to begin softly) 2026 Reflections Guide and more little gifts within—simple prompts to set a kinder tone for your year: Download → https://lauren-ostrowski-fenton-s-school.teachable.com/l/pdp/new-year-s-reflections-guide-unlock-your-authentic-self-a-simple-reflection-guide-lauren-ostrowski-fenton A little book for your bedside, Daily Rituals for Happiness → https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01GA4KXWY?ref=KC_GS_GB_AU #GuidedMeditation #MindfulnessPractice #SelfCompassion #MentalHealthSupport #GentleCBT #BodyScanMeditation
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| 0:00.0 | Meditation, a soft place for grief with a body scan and some gentle cognitive behavioural |
| 0:16.0 | therapy. Welcome, I'm Lauren. |
| 0:21.8 | This meditation is part of a kit, a mini course for grief. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm going to speak slowly and there will be plenty of pauses. |
| 0:44.6 | Sit in the sacred moment of each pause and allow that space to wash over you, give you pause to reflect, be, and start again in this precious moment. |
| 1:07.0 | Before we start, choose a place in which to meditate. |
| 1:13.6 | This could be a chair or it could also be crawling into your bed. |
| 1:21.6 | Wear loose clothing and when you're ready let's start sit down or lie down comfortably |
| 1:39.3 | and when you're ready we will begin. |
| 1:47.0 | Arrival and intention. |
| 1:52.0 | Take a moment, take several moments, to become as comfortable as you can right now. |
| 2:05.6 | Whether you're lying down or reclining, |
| 2:10.6 | whether you're seated, |
| 2:12.6 | somewhere you feel safe, safe enough to rest, safe enough to pause in this moment right now. |
| 2:28.3 | You may wish to further prepare yourself by wrapping yourself in a blanket placing a blanket around you or a pillow |
| 2:38.5 | under your knees or under your head you may also wish to visualize this process |
| 2:49.6 | imagine wrapping yourself in a beautiful blanket. Imagine a soft pillow. |
| 2:59.6 | Where will you place this soft pillow? Perhaps under your feet, perhaps under your knees, perhaps softly, |
| 3:16.3 | softly under your head. |
| 3:23.3 | Feel the support of this pillow, feel the wrapping sensation of the blanket. |
| 3:36.0 | You feel wrapped, you feel supported. |
| 3:45.6 | When you are ready, ensure your eyes are closed and come into this moment as it is. |
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