You Make Sense

You’ll also learn why protective parts may block you from pursuing what you want, and how healing unfolds through cycles of expansion and contraction as the nervous system gathers evidence that the present is safe. By taking tolerable steps and bringing this work into everyday life, you can build your capacity to navigate triggers and experience more of who you are. Find out why healing can feel so elusive and how to recognize progress even when it doesn’t feel like it.
Episode Highlights:
• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:49] The counterintuitive nature of healing
• [03:24] The nervous system as the foundation for healing
• [10:01] Building your capacity to receive the good
• [12:49] How becoming more embodied changes what you tolerate
• [14:20] Processing deeper layers of trauma as your capacity grows
• [16:05] Resolving coupling dynamics
• [20:43] Reconnecting with your needs and deepest desires
• [22:20] How healing can change your perception of reality
• [23:39] Renegotiating relationships as your needs change
• [24:23] Why regulation doesn’t mean never getting triggered
• [24:59] The expand/contract experience of healing
• [27:12] Taking tolerable steps toward the life you want
• [29:10] Healing happens through living, not just therapy
• [30:43] Grieving what you lose as you heal
• [33:29] Question 1 - What is the connection between physical and mental health?
• [37:51] Question 2 - Can healing result in physical symptoms or weight gain?
• [43:23] Question 3 - How do I navigate family members who refuse to heal?
Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 16-Week Program:
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Quotes:
“It can be really confusing when we hit certain points of the healing process, and what is forward might feel like backward to us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:01:10]
“We have to show, not tell, our nervous systems that we are actually safe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:10:28]
“The good things don't always feel good at first.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:10:39]
“The only way to live a fully embodied life is [by having] access to all of the human experience, to all of our feelings, and [by] living in our bodies today. We are not living in the body of a traumatized part of us from the past.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:20:24]
“[The goal is] not to orchestrate a life where you never get triggered; it's to know the route out of being triggered.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:24:53]
“We heal through our living, not just through being in therapeutic containers.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:29:17]

Much of the catastrophizing we experience is actually a result of protective parts that formed in our early childhood to keep us safe. You’ll learn how to come to the aid of these parts by first accessing your most capable, able adult self. Listen in for a compassionate guide on how to find lasting relief and step toward the thinking patterns you truly desire.
Episode Highlights:
• [00:00] Introduction
• [01:47] Focusing only on positive or negative
• [07:22] Why you may always assume the worst
• [15:46] Giving the vulnerable part safety from your adult self
• [21:28] Why traditional talk therapy isn’t enough
• [28:48] Accessing your adult self
• [33:38] The power of internal co-regulation
• [40:32] Question 1 – How do I stop sabotaging my healthy relationship?
• [51:08] Question 2 – How do I manage fear and anxiety about my health?
• [57:51] Question 3 – How do I eradicate the shame I feel about my parts?
Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 16-Week Program:
Ready for tools to heal every area of your life? You Make Sense is a 16-week live program that goes far beyond these weekly podcast episodes to give you powerful somatic exercises and resources to address your nervous system, relationships, younger parts, purpose, boundaries, grief, and more!
Click below to get on the waitlist for limited-time reduced pricing:
https://bit.ly/sp-yms-waitlist
Download the FREE Workbook:
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Quotes:
“I can be with what is not okay, and I can still be okay. This can only happen when we are anchored in safety.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:06:56]
“When we have a protective part that is anticipating a dangerous future or catastrophizing about how things will go wrong, it is going to put us in a state of dysregulation.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:11:50]
“Your protective parts will do anything to ensure the dangers of the past don’t happen again.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:13:55]
“We believe thoughts when there is an affect attached to it.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:24:53]
“When I experience hard things as adult me, it will never, ever, ever be like the hard traumatic things I experienced as a child because there’s an adult here now. And that’s me. And that is the work that sets us free.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:37:39]

Healing requires more than understanding where our wounds came from. Sarah explores how somatic healing and parts work are necessary components to bringing resolution to painful childhood experiences. By learning to become a steady, regulated presence for yourself, you can begin to release and shift old survival responses. Discover how healing developmental trauma can help you build greater safety within yourself and with the people you love.
Episode Highlights:
• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:56] Healing developmental trauma requires a somatic approach
• [08:16] Implicit memory and how trauma lives in the body
• [10:15] How attachment trauma shapes adult relationships
• [15:25] Using somatic parts work to heal attachment wounds
• [19:23] Why intimate relationships can activate developmental trauma
• [20:57] Becoming the safe, regulated presence your younger parts need
• [22:32] Why healing developmental trauma requires consistency and support
• [25:13] Relearning connection through nonverbal experiences
• [28:37] Question 1 - How do I rebuild my sense of self after parentification?
• [35:44] Question 2 - How do I heal abandonment that affected multiple developmental stages?
• [44:24] Question 3 - How do I set boundaries as my role within my family changes?
Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 16-Week Program:
Ready for tools to heal every area of your life? You Make Sense is a 16-week live program that goes far beyond these weekly podcast episodes to give you powerful somatic exercises and resources to address your nervous system, relationships, younger parts, purpose, boundaries, grief, and more!
Join the waitlist for limited-time reduced pricing:
https://bit.ly/sp-yms-waitlist
Connect with Sarah on:
Email Community — bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter
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Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com
Download the FREE Workbook:
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Quotes:
“The number one most important thing that a baby or a child needs is a safe adult's regulated nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:02:05]
“Implicit memory is the type of memory that we have when it comes to trauma. It is not orderly, and it lives and is experienced in our bodies and our nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:08:59]
“The reason you struggle in relationships, if you do, is because your system had to adapt to a caregiver who could not successfully securely attach to you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:11:23]
“A secure attachment means that you had a caregiver who was predominantly anchored in regulation in their nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:11:37]
“We have to also become the person that our parts feel safe with.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:16:10]
“When it comes to healing developmental trauma, our young parts aren't supposed to have to actually do anything, except be picked up and held by us, and for us to say, ‘Let me take what is too much for you.’” — Sarah Baldwin [0:21:59]
“You can't piecemeal your healing journey. You have to have support.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:23:40]

We explore the connection between our spiritual nature and the healing process, along with the spiritual and scientific foundations of parts work. Sarah explains how to begin working with your parts and what integration actually means. You’ll be invited to examine your self-protective behaviors with curiosity, compassion, and awareness, which is a powerful step toward deeper healing and a fuller experience of being alive. Your system already knows how to heal; it just needs to be shown the way.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction

• [01:33] Another way to think of spirituality

• [07:28] How the nervous system protects us

• [13:36] Regulating your nervous system

• [16:39] Our spiritual nature

• [21:33] The spiritual quality of parts work

• [24:22] The science of parts work

• [32:31] Tools to begin working with your parts

• [38:00] What integration truly means

• [43:44] Question 1 - Why does nothing ever seem to pan out in my purpose?

• [49:05] Question 2 - How do I take steps forward to actually help my parts?

• [53:55] Question 3 - Is parts work beneficial for everyone, including those with personality disorders?

Navigating Your Nervous System is NOW ENROLLING:

Want to work with Sarah in a live capacity? The doors are now open to her 6-week live program, Navigating Your Nervous System, designed to help you get into the driver’s seat of your experience and start feeling better on a daily basis.

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Not sure where to get started with somatic healing? Sarah created a FREE trauma-informed workbook called "How To Gain Control Over How You Feel" to help you step toward a life filled with more freedom, ease, and empowerment.

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Quotes:

“Healing is embodied.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:02:36]

“The truth of the matter is when we over-pathologize, we inhibit our healing.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:03:12]

“So much of the challenges and suffering we are experiencing is rooted in our nervous system not knowing that the past is over and not knowing that we are safe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:07:28]

“Your system knows how to heal, it just needs to be shown the way.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:40:17]

“Healing truly is the most beautiful love story.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:42:34]

You’ll learn about the four primary states of your autonomic nervous system and how each one directly impacts your lived experience. Then, Sarah will guide you through gentle steps to begin accessing your ventral vagal complex, which is the key to living a more free, empowered life. This conversation is a starting point to finding tools and support that lead to lasting change. If there’s an episode not to skip, it might be this one. 

Episode Highlights: 

• [00:00] Introduction 

• [02:50] Understanding your autonomic nervous system

• [06:52] Ventral - your state of regulation

• [10:57] Sympathetic - your state of mobilization

• [15:59] Dorsal - your state of shut down

• [17:21] The love story of your nervous system

• [23:26] Freeze - your state of tonic immobility

• [26:02] Why am I dysregulated when I’m actually safe?

• [31:32] The importance of consistent neural exercises

• [36:58] Question 1 - Can everyone benefit from a somatic approach? 

• [52:13] Question 2 - How can we help our younger parts if we are not regulated? 

• [59:06] Question 3 - Where is the best place to start in Sarah’s programs? 

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Navigating Your Nervous System is NOW ENROLLING:

Want to work with Sarah in a live capacity? The doors are now open to her 6-week live program, Navigating Your Nervous System, designed to help you get into the driver’s seat of your experience and start feeling better on a daily basis.

Click below to learn more:
https://bit.ly/sp-nyns

Connect with Sarah on:

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Quotes:

“Your entire lived experience is rooted in what is happening in your nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:06:15]

“The foundation, not just of all healing, but of a happy life, is that we are primarily anchored in our ventral vagal complex.” —  Sarah Baldwin [0:10:05]

“Your nervous system is your most loyal companion. It has never left your side. It is a true and utter love story.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:17:22]

“If you’re finding yourself primarily rooted in dysregulation, it is not unsolvable. It is not happening because something is wrong with you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:29:52]

“There is no one size fits all for the healing journey.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:37:48]