CTL-ALT-CREATE

What if nothing you’ve been through was actually wasted?

In this episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund dismantles the cultural myth of “wasted time” and invites you to reframe regret through the lens of biology, neuroscience, and emotional growth. Drawing on research in neuroplasticity, trauma recovery, gut microbiome science, and the chemistry of memory, this meditative essay reveals how even your messiest moments are metabolized by the body—transformed, composted, and encoded as growth.

You’ll learn why your nervous system never discards experience, how rumination disrupts healing, and why your emotions are less like errors to fix and more like soil to tend.

This isn’t about toxic positivity. It’s about truth:
There is no waste—only signal, rewiring, and becoming.
🎧 Headphones recommended for binaural immersion.
🎙️ Part science, part story, part soul repair.

What is CTL-ALT-CREATE?

CTL-ALT-CREATE
Hosted by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC
Therapist • Folklorist • Podcaster

Reboot your nervous system. Rewrite your internal code. Reimagine what it means to heal.

Control-ALT-Create is an immersive podcast where science meets story, therapy meets sound, and transformation begins from the inside out. Each episode blends neuroscience, clinical insight, and mythic metaphor into a therapeutic soundscape—layered with binaural beats, hypnotic language, and deep emotional resonance.

The title is a play on the familiar keyboard command “Control-Alt-Delete”—but here, it becomes an invitation:

Control your narrative not through force, but through awareness.
ALTer your default patterns with Automatic Loving Thoughts.
Create new neural pathways that support healing, safety, and meaning.
Part meditation, part essay, part reprogramming tool—this podcast isn’t just something you listen to. It’s something you feel. Listen with headphones or earbuds to get the full effect.

Whether you’re a therapist, a seeker, a survivor, or simply someone ready to evolve, Control-ALT-Create offers a new way to think, feel, and become.