Sarah Baldwin Coaching

Sarah Baldwin Coaching I am a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and expert in the field of trauma resolution. Host of the You Make Sense Podcast.
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I specialize in Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Parts Work, and Attachment Intervention. Sarah Baldwin is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner trained through Peter Levine's three year trauma training and a member of the Polyvagal Institute training team. She is also trained in somatic Attachment Theory, Parts Work, Psychodrama and Martha Beck's life coaching program. Sarah is based in Los Angel

es and has grown to serve hundreds of clients from around the world and offers a variety of individual, group, and online coaching options.

Your patterns live in your body, not your mind, which is why understanding them doesn't make them stop. ⤵️⁠⁠You can have...
06/03/2026

Your patterns live in your body, not your mind, which is why understanding them doesn't make them stop. ⤵️⁠
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You can have all the insight in the world about why you people-please, why you shut down, and why you sabotage good things.⁠
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You can trace it back to your childhood, name the part that's doing it, and understand the adaptive response.⁠
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And still… find yourself right back in the same pattern the next time it gets triggered, my friend.⁠
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Because your nervous system and parts aren't responding to what you know cognitively – they're responding to what they learned somatically, in your body, about what keeps you safe.⁠
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The work isn't just about gaining awareness, it’s about giving your system new experiences that show it that something different is possible now. ✨⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

"What does it actually mean to be regulated? What does it even feel like?" ⁠⁠If your system has spent a long time in dys...
06/02/2026

"What does it actually mean to be regulated? What does it even feel like?" ⁠
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If your system has spent a long time in dysregulation — in survival, in urgency, in shutdown — regulation might not feel familiar yet. It might even feel confusing or out of reach.⁠
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Being anchored in regulation doesn't mean being happy all the time, or never feeling dysregulated. And it definitely doesn't mean forcing yourself to feel a certain way.⁠
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It means: ⁠
🌱 Your nervous system feels safe enough to be here, now. ⁠
🌱 Your body feels steady and at ease. ⁠
🌱 Your reactions feel manageable.⁠
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From a neuroscience perspective, your system is operating from the ventral vagal branch — the state associated with connection, presence, and safety. Your heart rate is steady, your prefrontal cortex is online, and you have access to rational thought, curiosity, and genuine connection with yourself and others.⁠
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It's the place where rest feels accessible. Where the pace of your life actually matches the pace of your system.⁠
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Today’s post includes a few simple examples of what you might experience in a regulated state. You might recognize one, you might recognize none — whichever it is, that's okay. The more we name these moments, the more we can return to them. ⁠
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Ready to start learning how to regulate your nervous system to step towards the life you truly desire? ⁠
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Comment WORKBOOK, and I’ll send you my free guide: How to Gain Control Over How You Feel. ⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

06/02/2026

Big life changes – moving, career shifts, relationship transitions, becoming a parent – activate your nervous system in ways that can make trust feel impossible. ❤️‍🩹⁠
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Because your system isn't just responding to what's happening now, my friend.⁠
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It's scanning your entire database for what happened the last time things changed, the last time you stepped into something new, the last time you had to trust that you'd be okay.⁠
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And if change in the past meant loss, instability, or things falling apart, your body is going to resist this new beginning, even if it's something you consciously want.⁠
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Parts will show up, trying to keep you in what's familiar because familiar feels safer than unknown – even when the unknown is what you're longing for.⁠
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In this week's episode, I talk about how to work with your nervous system and parts during transitions, how to build trust in yourself through change, and what it actually means to navigate new beginnings when your body is screaming to stay where you are. ✨⁠
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This episode is out now wherever you get your podcasts – comment YMSPOD below and I'll send you the direct link to listen!⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

Before I found somatic healing, I spent decades stuck in dysregulation — feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and like I w...
06/01/2026

Before I found somatic healing, I spent decades stuck in dysregulation — feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and like I was broken. I tried everything: talk therapy, reading all the books, weekend retreats, and so much more. ⁠
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And while I found some relief, nothing seemed to create lasting change.⁠
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It wasn’t until I learned to work with my nervous system that everything shifted. ⁠
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When you learn to regulate your nervous system, you don’t just feel better. You unlock your capacity for the relationships, purpose, and joy you’ve been longing for.⁠
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Your nervous system holds the key to feeling better every day. ⁠
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Let me show you how to work with it, not against it. 💛 ⁠
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Comment NYNS to join the waitlist for my 6-week program and be the first to know when doors open! ⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

There's a difference between being easygoing and being in a state of fawning, and your body knows which one you're in. 💛...
06/01/2026

There's a difference between being easygoing and being in a state of fawning, and your body knows which one you're in. 💛⁠
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When you're genuinely easygoing, you can be flexible without losing yourself.⁠
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You have preferences but they're not rigid, and you can go with the flow because your nervous system feels safe enough to be adaptable.⁠
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But fawning is different, my friend.⁠
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Fawning is your system abandoning your needs before anyone even asks you to.⁠
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It's saying yes when you mean no, not because you're being flexible but because conflict, disappointment, or rejection feels dangerous.⁠
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Your body is in protection mode, convinced that having boundaries or a different opinion will cost you the relationship or whatever else is on the other side of being your authentic self.⁠
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The tricky part is that fawning can look like being easygoing from the outside – agreeable, accommodating, and low-maintenance.⁠
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But internally, you're constantly monitoring, adjusting, shape-shifting to keep everyone else comfortable while your own truth gets smaller and smaller. ✨⁠
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If you want to understand what's happening in your nervous system so you can take steps toward healing, I created a free quiz with personalized results to get you started on your journey. ⁠
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⭐ Comment QUIZ below to get the link! ⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

05/31/2026

So many of us spend our lives believing that happiness, safety, or fulfillment live somewhere outside of us. 🌿⁠
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“If I can just achieve enough…”�“If I can finally have the house, the relationship, the success, the money…”�“Then I’ll finally feel okay.”⁠
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But external things were never meant to become the foundation of our worth, safety, or identity. They are the cherries on top, not the source of a meaningful life. ⁠
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True healing changes your relationship with yourself from the inside out. It helps you build an internal world that feels safe, connected, and whole enough that your life is no longer defined by what you have or lose.⁠
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In this episode, we explore the protective fantasies many of us unconsciously live inside of, why the nervous system clings to them, and how to begin reconnecting to the fullness of life that already exists beyond survival and self-protection. ⁠
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🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen.⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

If the hard work of growing, healing and becoming the person you’re meant to be has been exhausting and challenging, you...
05/31/2026

If the hard work of growing, healing and becoming the person you’re meant to be has been exhausting and challenging, you’re not alone in that experience. I know it myself and I first want to validate how hard it is. For me, this work is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, perhaps you feel that way, too. It takes a warrior to become the person we are meant to be and you are that warrior. 💛⁠
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The life you're here to live was never going to feel comfortable all the way through, my friend. The version of you that's still becoming — the one your soul knows you're meant to be — can't be reached from where you've been. You have to stretch to meet them.⁠
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And stretching is uncomfortable. It asks you to hold more than you've held before. It brings up the parts of you that learned staying small was safer. It invites healing into places you didn't even know were still asking for it.⁠
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What feels like disruption is often your life reorganizing itself around who you're actually becoming. ✨⁠
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The path to our full aliveness can look messy but it doesn’t have to be confusing. If you're ready to move through your own journey with support and clarity on what is needed to live the life you are here to live, Navigating Your Nervous System is my 6-week foundational course starting in August, and it's exactly the kind of container this work asks for.⁠
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⭐ Comment NYNS below to join the waitlist!⁠
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With kindness,⁠
Sarah

Relationships have a way of bringing our deepest nervous system patterns to the surface, my friend. 💛⁠⁠You can feel calm...
05/30/2026

Relationships have a way of bringing our deepest nervous system patterns to the surface, my friend. 💛⁠
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You can feel calm and grounded on your own, then suddenly feel anxious, clingy, reactive, or disconnected once you get close to someone.⁠
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Not because you’re broken.⁠
And not necessarily because the relationship is wrong.⁠
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Close relationships often activate the younger parts of us that learned love, safety, abandonment, rejection, or inconsistency early in life. When those old experiences get stirred up, the body can start responding as though the past is happening all over again.⁠
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That’s why relationships can feel so emotionally intense. Your nervous system may still be searching for the safety, reassurance, or stability it once struggled to receive.⁠
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Healing isn’t about never getting triggered in relationships. ✨⁠
It’s about learning how to stay connected to yourself when those younger parts arise — so you can respond from your grounded adult self instead of survival patterns.⁠
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Over time, your nervous system can learn that love doesn’t have to feel chaotic, consuming, or unsafe in order to be real.⁠
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✨ If you want to better understand your relationship patterns and nervous system responses, comment QUIZ below for my free nervous system assessment.⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

05/30/2026

Have you ever found yourself comparing your partner to an imaginary person you've built from pieces of everyone else? 💛⁠
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Maybe you take the emotional intelligence of one friend's partner, the ambition of someone you follow online, the romance of a movie character, and the stability of someone from your past. And when you stack all of that up against the actual person next to you, of course they fall short. They can't compete with someone who doesn't exist.⁠
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This is one of the most common ways we live in fantasy, my friend. And it's almost always a protective part at work.⁠
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Because here's the truth: fully landing in the love in front of you requires vulnerability. It means letting yourself be hurt, disappointed, and attached. It means grieving the things your partner can't give you, while honoring everything they actually do. It means being in the relationship instead of hovering above it, comparing it to something it was never going to be.⁠
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Fantasy keeps us safe from that. ⁠
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If we're always slightly imagining someone better, we don't have to fully attach. If we're always one foot out the door in our own mind, we don't have to feel the weight of actually choosing this person.⁠
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Technology has made this easier than ever. ⁠
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Social media shows us a constant reel of other people's highlight lives. Dating apps tell us there's always another option. Manifestation culture tells us our current life isn't enough unless it looks a very specific way.⁠
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But the people you love can't meet you in fantasy. Real intimacy only happens when you're willing to be here, with this real person, choosing them again and again, imperfections and all. ✨⁠
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🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen to the latest episode!⁠
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With kindness and belief in your healing,⁠
Sarah

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