You Make Sense

Sarah Baldwin
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You Make Sense is a manual to understanding your human experience, so that you can navigate the world with freedom, ease, and empowerment. Using the latest neuroscience and trauma research, this podcast will equip you with powerful somatic tools to help you get unstuck and create the life you desire. Sarah Baldwin, SEP, is an expert in trauma resolution, attachment, parts work, and nervous system regulation. But before she was a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and trained in Polyvagal interventions, she first came to this work as someone struggling to find relief. It was through her own healing that led her to become a trained professional, now helping thousands of people across her programs, courses, and classes to do the same.

  1. 2 hr ago

    Living a Full Life Without Sacrificing Ambition

    So many of us get trapped in these unhealthy cycles because we learned at a young age that achieving was how we earned and received love.  But it’s absolutely possible to shift this. By falling in love with all parts of you, especially those that only feel significant when striving, you will be able to find fulfillment and heal your attachment to ambition. Sarah offers a compassionate guide to letting go of the external quest for ‘enoughness’ and reconnecting to your inherent worthiness. Episode Highlights:  • [00:00] Introduction • [02:00] Ambition as a positive thing vs. ambition as a prison • [05:57] The ramifications of letting ambition take over your life • [11:32] What you actually need to lead a full life • [18:42] What happens when our needs are imbalanced • [24:07] Why you may find your life lacking in fullness • [32:37] Reparenting protective parts around striving and ambition • [39:34] The two things you need to do to start healing • [48:16] Question 1 – How do I make the dating process enjoyable? • [56:47] Question 2 – Can I heal and find my purpose while in a romantic relationship? • [01:06:21] Question 3 – How do I know when it’s time to leave my job? Join the Waitlist for Navigating Your Nervous System: Living a full, expansive life starts with nervous system regulation. If you’re looking for practical tools and support on your healing journey, you can now get on the waitlist for my upcoming 6-week LIVE program. Everyone on the waitlist receives access to limited-time pricing:https://bit.ly/sp-nyns-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: “Purposeful means: ‘I am able to use the skills that I have to provide service for the world, and when I do that, I feel a sense of fulfillment.’” — Sarah Baldwin [0:14:12] “[If] we don’t do this work, it leads to a life that is perpetually lived in a way that lacks the balance that we need to have fullness.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:34:35] “No one can rescue us from our [lives] except for us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:37:01]

    1hr 19min

  2. 23 Jun

    How to Attract and Create the Relationship of Your Dreams

    Drawing on somatic healing and parts work, Sarah shares how early experiences and family dynamics become our blueprint for connection and why lasting change requires more than simply trying to choose differently. She explains how reparenting younger parts can shift our baseline for love, helping us build healthier relationships from the inside out, and why healthy partnership is not about being rescued, but about learning to meet yourself first with the love and care you’ve always deserved. Episode Highlights: • [00:00] Introduction • [01:42] Why finding the right partner is not a matter of luck • [06:30] The nervous system as the hidden matchmaker • [09:24] Family roles and the relationship patterns we carry into adulthood • [13:41] Why trying to choose different partners isn’t enough • [14:52] Reparenting younger parts to change your baseline for love • [23:51] Building the capacity to receive healthy love • [26:15] How healing continues after finding the right partner • [29:42] Question 1 - How do I know if I’m co-regulating or just seeking reassurance? • [36:40] Question 2 - Why do healthy relationships feel threatening? • [41:39] Question 3 - How does healing happen within an existing relationship? 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:http://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: “You think that you are your own matchmaker, but do you know who actually is making the match for you? It is your threat detector.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:08:58] “Whatever our baseline for love was as a child is going to be our baseline for love today.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:13:41] “When you actually fall in love with your parts, what happens is you change your baseline for what love is.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:19:28] “When you draw in that right partner for you, what's going to happen is the last bits of our healing will come to the surface.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:26:17] “When you fall madly in love with the parts of you that are inside of you that are waiting to be loved by you, you will fall madly in love with the person who arrives that reflects that same love back to you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:48:01]

    49 min

  3. 16 Jun

    Unexpected Ways Your Body Protects You: Holding Weight, Getting Sick, Chronic Pain, Infertility, and Insomnia

    Sarah explores how symptoms like weight retention, insomnia, chronic illness, chronic pain, and infertility are often a result of traumatic energy from the past still living in your body. You’ll learn what it takes to heal unresolved trauma and work with your nervous system and parts to create internal safety. Listen in for a practical guide to befriending your body and finding relief from your physical symptoms. Episode Highlights:  • [00:00] Introduction • [02:03] How trauma impacts your physical body • [07:07] Why these symptoms are a form of self-protection • [10:37] What’s happening when your see your body as the enemy • [13:25] Examples of how your body protects itself • [28:47] Tools to work with your nervous system and younger parts • [31:40] Question 1 – What is dysautonomia? How do I heal from medical trauma? • [37:35] Question 2 – What tools can I use to heal/cure my insomnia? • [41:59] Question 3 – Do you need to incorporate body work with trauma healing? 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: “Your body holds a lot. – It holds not only the joys we experience but it also holds the burdens and it holds the things we have yet to resolve all for us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:22] “When [you] do this work, it changes everything, and it allows you to have the fullness of the human experience that you are here to have.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:30:55] “This beautiful home that you’ve been given to reside inside of, called your body, [has] not been trying to harm you; it’s only been trying to keep you safe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:44:30] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Navigating Your Nervous System Waitlist

    45 min

  4. 9 Jun

    Reclaiming Your Sense of Self

    You’ll learn what is really needed to reparent these young parts and why anchoring into your adult self is key to stepping into the full, authentic life you’re desiring. This episode acts as a roadmap to help you make sense of the human experience and, ultimately, reclaim your sense of self, so be sure to tune in now!  Episode Highlights:  • [00:00] Introduction • [02:11] You’re not alone in your experience • [05:10] Ways we try to cope with our suffering • [11:19] A roadmap to understanding parts work • [17:04] Why young parts show up in our present experience  • [21:16] How to free your younger parts and embrace the adult you • [23:47] Understanding internal co-regulation • [29:59] Question 1 – Can I experience difficult emotions while regulated? • [40:41] Question 2 – How do I release the belief that I don’t know enough? • [46:16] Question 3 – How do I cultivate warmth and confidence within myself? 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 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:https://bit.ly/sp-nse 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 journey of trying to understand the human experience on our own can feel like – a really confusing labyrinth.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:10:38] “Do you know why adulting is overwhelming? That is an indicator that you have a younger part of you that is trying to run your adult life.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:18:25] “The suffering we experience – is often enough – to help usher us towards the work that needs to be done to change our current circumstance so that life is more free.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:20:43] “Only adult you is going to guide you in the direction that is meant for you in your life.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:22:22] “Our work in our adult self is to build our capacity to hold both good things and hard things.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:31:42] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Join the Waitlist for You Make Sense

    54 min

  5. 2 Jun

    Navigating Big Life Changes with Trust

    Endings are inevitable, and during this conversation, Sarah talks about the extraordinary dimension of life we can unlock when we do the work of shifting our orientation towards change and finding the opportunity within every transition. We explore processing grief, building internal trust, and unpacking what it means to recognize new beginnings, stay connected, and embrace the changing nature of life. Episode Highlights: • [00:00] Introduction • [00:48] What happens when we resist change • [02:37] Reasons why so many of us resist change • [06:39] How our past experiences influence our orientation towards change • [11:09] Being fully present to what is ending in our lives • [21:21] Embracing new beginnings • [30:54] Connecting with your own form of spirituality • [33:51] Question 1 - How do I have faith in the face of loss and disappointment? • [45:48] Question 2 - How do I determine whether a romantic partner is safe to grow with? • [54:40] Question 3 - Is it possible to heal my relationship to sex after abuse? Join the Waitlist for Navigating Your Nervous System: Living a full, expansive life starts with nervous system regulation. If you’re looking for practical tools and support on your healing journey, you can now get on the waitlist for my upcoming 6-week LIVE program. Everyone on the waitlist receives access to limited-time pricing:https://bit.ly/sp-nyns-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: “The resisting of change only causes our suffering because you cannot make the change stop.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:02:13] “In order for anything to thrive in our lives, it has to have room to breathe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:03:56] “If you don’t have the capacity to let go of what is no longer here, you cannot welcome in the richness that is wanting to arrive at this new beginning.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:12:16] “When it comes to endings, the only way that they’re navigable is when we feel safe inside.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:16:51] “When we are able to anchor into that internal truth, and when we are able to take breath by breath, step by step, life becomes the most beautiful dance, the most beautiful unfolding, and that is what it’s supposed to be for you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:24:27] “Only when you are anchored fully in internal safety, can you be okay with not knowing.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:35:57] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Join the Waitlist for You Make Sense

    1hr 2min

  6. 26 May

    Escapism, Living in Fantasy, and Idealizing Our Lives

    Sarah breaks down how these fantasizing parts inform our actions and why life is not only meant to be easy and happy. You’ll hear all about how these protective parts can keep you from experiencing the good things in your life and why the world we live in fuels our obsession with fantasy. This episode is filled with tangible tools to help you process what was and anchor into the abundance already available to you in the present. Episode Highlights:  [00:00] Introduction [01:34] Examples of living in fantasy [03:18] Understanding your protective parts [06:58] The two things fantasizing parts do and why [15:34] How fantasizing parts show up in adult life [25:10] Why we only grow through challenge [27:16] How fantasizing parts keep us from good things [35:41] The way our current world fuels fantasy [38:59] Building your capacity to be with what is [41:29] Question 1 – How do I make peace with aging? [49:26] Question 2 – What should I focus on when struggling with chronic illness? [58:45] Question 3 – How do I navigate not getting the thing I’ve always wanted? 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 Join the Waitlist for Navigating Your Nervous System: Living a full, expansive life starts with nervous system regulation. If you’re looking for practical tools and support on your healing journey, you can now get on the waitlist for my upcoming 6-week LIVE program. Everyone on the waitlist receives access to limited-time pricing:https://bit.ly/sp-nyns-waitlist 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 fantasizing part is always trying to figure out a way to keep us from what presently is [happening].” — Sarah Baldwin [0:06:15] “The fantasizing part keeps us from the goodness right in front of us as a way to ensure that we are never harmed again.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:14:58] “Life is not meant to be just goodness, everybody. That’s not what it’s about.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:25:10] “My hope is that you can see here that you are a complex being.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:33:47] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:You Make Sense Waitlist

    1hr 6min

  7. 19 May

    What Fawning Really Is and Why It Happens

    Sarah offers insight into both the short-term benefits and long-term consequences of fawning. You’ll learn how this behavior relates to the nervous system and the importance of anchoring into regulation and your adult self. She also discusses how social pressures can influence our tendency to fawn in romantic relationships, friendships, and beyond. Listen in for a compassionate guide for how to come back home to your most authentic self. Episode Highlights: [00:00] Introduction [01:08] Sarah’s personal experiences of fawning [04:16] What fawning is and why it happens [10:00] Why partners who don’t fawn might feel threatening [12:16] Short-term benefits of fawning [14:10] Long-term ramifications of fawning [17:12] Tools to start allowing yourself to be seen and known [20:20] The influence of social pressures on fawning [26:15] What healing looks like in practice [31:48] Question 1 – How do I know if I’m fawning or just being nice? [37:15] Question 2 – How do I overcome fawning when I’ve made a mistake? [41:11] Question 3 – How do I differentiate between adult me and a fawning part? 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 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 — https://sarahbaldwincoaching.com Submit a Question:sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcastQuotes: “Fawning, essentially, is becoming whatever we need to be to be safe in the situation that we are in.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:07:20] “If you find yourself fawning in any area of life, please know there’s a reason for it. It’s not happening because you’re inauthentic.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:09:29] “Fawning serves an important purpose, and for many of us, if you’re like me, it’s saved your life.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:12:15] “The people in your life are not supposed to be your therapist!” — Sarah Baldwin [0:30:26]

    47 min

  8. 12 May

    The Nervous System Path to Wealth and Abundance

    Sarah highlights how our relationship to money is shaped by past experiences that have linked wealth with danger, shame, or pressure. These patterns can quietly limit our ability to receive and sustain financial well-being, which is why it’s essential to build our capacity to receive pleasure. Through tangible practices like reparenting and nervous system regulation, Sarah offers a compassionate path toward decoupling wealth from past experiences, allowing for a more fully expressed and abundant life. Episode Highlights: [00:00] Introduction [00:50] Why nothing in nature is meek [03:00] Nature’s innate ability to receive abundantly [03:50] Your nervous system as the ruler of your lived experience [06:50] The meaning we create around money [09:55] Building our nervous system’s capacity to hold wealth [12:10] Receiving goodness simply because you exist [14:14] Reparenting your younger parts [17:55] Stepping into the callings of your life [18:30] Getting beyond survivor’s guilt [22:30] Where wealth comes from [24:22] Question 1 - What are effective ways to overcome compulsive spending habits? [29:51] Question 2 - How do I overcome perfectionism that is hindering my career growth? [39:45] Question 3 - What are tangible ways to step toward stillness and restorative rest? 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 Join the Waitlist for Navigating Your Nervous System:  Living a full, expansive life starts with nervous system regulation. If you’re looking for practical tools and support on your healing journey, you can now get on the waitlist for my upcoming 6-week LIVE program. Everyone on the waitlist receives access to limited-time pricing: https://bit.ly/sp-nyns-waitlist 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 ruler of your ability to experience financial abundance, or not, is your nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:03:57] “What's really important to understand is that in order to build our ability to have wealth, we have to build our capacity to hold it in our nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:09:57] “Until we reorient our nervous system in our parts to money being different than it was, we are going to continually be in the cycles that we once knew or that we once experienced.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:18:12]

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You Make Sense is a manual to understanding your human experience, so that you can navigate the world with freedom, ease, and empowerment. Using the latest neuroscience and trauma research, this podcast will equip you with powerful somatic tools to help you get unstuck and create the life you desire. Sarah Baldwin, SEP, is an expert in trauma resolution, attachment, parts work, and nervous system regulation. But before she was a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and trained in Polyvagal interventions, she first came to this work as someone struggling to find relief. It was through her own healing that led her to become a trained professional, now helping thousands of people across her programs, courses, and classes to do the same.

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  • Creator
    Sarah Baldwin
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    93
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2024 You Make Sense
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