You Make Sense

She introduces the concept of disconfirming experiences: small, embodied moments that gently teach the nervous system that the past is over and we’re free to embody a more full, expansive life. Through key nervous system tools and somatic principles, Sarah explores how safety is rebuilt and how freedom becomes possible as the body is shown, again and again, that it no longer has to protect in the same ways.
 
Episode Highlights:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:50] Why healing requires lived experience, not just understanding
[06:30] Your nervous system holds the blueprint for how you navigate life
[10:25] Unresolved experiences live in the body, not the prefrontal cortex
[14:07] Using disconfirming experiences to teach your nervous system safety
[22:14] How healing expands your capacity to receive
[27:05] Becoming best friends with your autonomic nervous system
[33:16] Aligning growth and healing with the season of life you’re in
[37:54] How disconfirming experiences differ from exposure therapy
[42:16] Question 1 - Why do I still feel dysregulated after years of nervous system work?
[45:33] Question 2 - Why am I attracting unsafe or unsupportive partners?
[51:46] Question 3 - How do I process trapped energy using somatic practices?
 
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Ready to make tangible shifts in your life? Sarah’s brand-new introductory course, Nervous System Essentials, will equip you with science-backed tools to regulate your nervous system, so that you can experience more freedom and ease in your daily life.
 
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Take Sarah’s FREE Quiz:
Feeling stuck in your life? Not sure where to start with somatic healing? Sarah’s free quiz, “What’s Keeping You Stuck,” will equip you with free tools and a personalized guide to better understand your nervous system specific to you.
 
Click below to get started:
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Quotes:
“All of the hard things we experienced in our lives were not things we read in a book. They were lived experiences. So, do you know what that means? In order to heal the past, we have to have lived experience.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:02:51]
“Only when we are in our state of regulation do we have full access to our prefrontal cortex and reason, logic, and rationalization. So did you know that when you experience hard things or traumatic things, you are not in your ventral vagal complex, or state of regulation.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:11:52]
“It is not physiologically possible to resolve hard things and traumatic things when we experienced them in our bodies in the first place. We can't resolve them through talking them out.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:12:54]
“A disconfirming experience is where we show, not tell, our nervous system and our younger parts, that the things that were once dangerous are safe for us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:14:38]
“Your autonomic nervous system is the best friend you never knew you had. – Because what neuroscience shows us is [that] this nervous system, it has never left your side. It has never stopped working for you. It will do everything in its power to make sure that you stay safe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:28:57]
 
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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She goes on to explain the differences between codependency, enmeshment, attunement, and interdependence. Sarah also discusses how fear of conflict can lead to self-abandonment, what it takes to feel safe during moments of disconnection or disagreement, and how to support children through distress in ways that build resilience. Tune in to better understand your relational patterns and learn how reclaiming a sense of self supports healthier, more sustainable relationships.
 
Episode Highlights:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:23] Today’s topic: how not to lose yourself in a relationship
[04:53] How childhood experiences shape our adult lives
[08:39] What does it mean to have a codependent part?
[11:48] Why your primary needs are essential and how to build capacity for them
[15:10] How caretaking can create a false sense of safety
[16:58] Signs you might be in a codependent dynamic
[19:16] Other protective parts of codependency: the rescuer
[22:13] Avoidance can show up in the form of caretaking
[23:24] Diffuse boundaries and how they also impact parenting
[26:41] The ramifications of and antidote to survival-based relationships
[32:13] Characteristics of a healthy relationship
[33:51] How to step toward interdependence
[39:05] Question 1 - The difference between codependency, enmeshment, and attunement.
[49:12] Question 2 - How to overcome the fear of conflict
[58:08] Question 3 - Supporting a child through distress or challenging situations

 
Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 10-Week Program:
Ready for tools to heal every area of your life? You Make Sense is a 10-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 Sarah’s FREE Workbook:
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.
Click the link below to download:
https://bit.ly/yms-sp-workbook

 
Connect with Sarah on:
Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter
Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching
Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com

 
Submit a Question:
sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast

 
Quotes:
“The thing that reminds your nervous system the most of [a] romantic relationship is your earliest childhood experiences. That lays the blueprint, or foundation, or map for how you had to navigate relationships.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:06:22]
“You cannot rescue anybody else. Only they, their adult self, can rescue the younger parts of [themselves].” — Sarah Baldwin [0:20:43]
“The amount of hard you experience in your childhood relationally is going to be reflected in the amount of hard that needs to get resolved in your romantic partnership.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:35:39]
“If you want to avoid burnout, if you want to avoid getting overwhelmed by your client load and the work that you do, it is very important that you are functioning not from a place of codependency but interdependence.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:47:26]

Limiting beliefs are often not representative of who you are today but are self-protective mechanisms that formed as a result of past traumas or experiences. The good news is that it’s absolutely possible to shift this! Sarah will guide you through how to anchor into regulation and your adult self so that you can find more ease, peace, and confidence. Tune in for a somatic approach on how to change unwanted thought patterns.
 
Episode Highlights:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:11] Origins of limiting beliefs
[04:45] The 2 reasons limiting beliefs exist: unresolved trauma and fragmented parts
[10:17] The stories your fragmented parts tell you and how they fuel your limiting beliefs
[14:00] Why mindset work and traditional therapy alone can’t change your thoughts
[15:03] The four states of your autonomic nervous system
[20:32] How coming into a state of regulation changes limiting beliefs
[24:15] Why you also need to work with your parts to change your thoughts
[30:50] Question 1 - Understanding the link between your parts and nervous system
[33:51] Question 2 - Why protective parts can block us from success
[37:51] Question 3 - The connection between dreaming and your parts
 
Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 10-Week Program:
Ready for tools to heal every area of your life? You Make Sense is a 10-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

 
Take Sarah’s FREE Quiz:
Feeling stuck in your life? Not sure where to start with somatic healing? Sarah’s free quiz, “What’s Keeping You Stuck,” will equip you with free tools and a personalized guide to better understand your nervous system specific to you.

Click below to get started:
https://bit.ly/yms-sp-quiz

 
Connect with Sarah on:
Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter
Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching
Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com

 
Submit a Question:
sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast

 
Quotes:
“Human beings clock something as true if we can feel it.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:11:57]
“I cannot believe something to be true if there isn’t the appropriate affect attached to it.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:14:08]
“Your autonomic state within your nervous system creates your story or the thoughts that you are having.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:14:33]
“When you’re in regulation, this is the fertile ground for creating new neural pathways for what’s actually true [and for] positive thinking.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:23:01]

Learning how to heal through your living can feel challenging or unfamiliar, especially if we’ve primarily found safety inside therapeutic containers, but it is also a necessary part of fully embodying the life you are here to live. You’ll get tangible tools to step toward your desires, receive abundance without suffering, and find support as you continue to grow. Wherever you are on your healing journey, this episode will show you just how much is possible for you.
 
Episode Highlights:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:25] Today’s topic: post-traumatic growth
[03:45] Why you may struggle to navigate healing through living
[11:46] Building your ‘house of healing’
[14:59] What to expect as you start to live fully
[21:26] Why suffering isn’t necessary to receive abundance
[23:59] The importance of having support through healing
[25:28] Question 1 - How do I take action once I know my truth?
[29:24] Question 2 - Why has it been so challenging to start my business?
[35:15] Question 3 - How do I tend to my parts as I take steps in my purpose?
 
Get Started with Nervous System Regulation:
Ready to make tangible shifts in your life? Sarah’s brand new introductory course, Nervous System Essentials, will equip you with science-backed tools to regulate your nervous system, so that you can experience more freedom and ease in your daily life.
 
Join the course for only $67:
 bit.ly/sp-nse

 
Download Sarah’s FREE Workbook:
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.

 
Click the link below to download:
https://bit.ly/yms-sp-workbook

 
Connect with Sarah on:
Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter
Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching
Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com

 
Submit a Question:
sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast

 
Quotes:
“A lot of our healing comes from our living.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:02:01]
“Good things don’t always feel good at first because our nervous system doesn’t know them.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:40]
“Transforming into anything new means a loss of something else. So, really [take] the time to be with that and not rush the process.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:18:06]
“The depths of your suffering equate to the depths of aliveness you get to experience in life, and so, the deeper the suffering, when you heal that, the deeper the ecstasy of just breathing is.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:20:41]
“Your learning was in and through [your] suffering, and now your learning is in your living.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:22:49]

 
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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Sarah explains how romantic relationships poke at early our attachment wounding the most, often leaving us reacting from old survival patterns rather than responding to what is happening in the present. She introduces the metaphor of the relationship as a battlefield versus a garden, showing how conflict, blame, and shutdown arise when unresolved wounds take the lead, and what becomes possible when both people reorient toward growth, responsibility, and care.
This episode invites listeners to see relationships as a shared, living process that can heal the past and support deeper connection when tended with awareness and willingness.
 
Episode Highlights:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:30] The myth that romantic relationships should feel effortless
[05:26] Moving from self-focus to being relationally-focused
[07:46] The role of willingness and self-growth in partnerships
[09:20] Tending the relationship as a shared garden instead of a battlefield
[15:38] How the nervous system projects childhood experiences onto our partner
[17:51] Why we are drawn to partners who mirror our unfinished business
[22:46] How understanding our parts and reparenting them supports relational repair
[27:49] Building empathy by recognizing our partner’s parts and core wounds
[31:02] Honoring difference and celebrating stretching
[40:23] What becomes possible in relationships when both people are willing
[43:15] Question 1 - Differentiating anxiety from truth in romantic relationships
[55:59] Question 2 - Working with longing, loneliness, and unmet needs for connection
[01:02:14] Question 3 - Learning to approach connection slowly
 
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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:
Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter
Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching
Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com
 
Submit a Question:
sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast
 
Quotes:
“Romantic relationships are where so much of our growth and healing happen, and that means that they aren't just filled with ease, they're filled with work.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:48]
“Any garden can be transformed if both people are willing.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:13:33]
“We marry our unfinished business, or we get into relationship with our unfinished business.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:18:28]
“We are punishing our partner for everything our caregivers got wrong, and our partner wasn't there for any of it.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:26:49]
“The only person that can rescue your parts is you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:27:45]
“Romantic relationships are supposed to be an invitation into our wholeness.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:30:39]
“Our protective parts won't be open to letting us love again if they don't think that we can hold the aftermath of losing love.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:58:40]