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Sarah Baldwin Coaching I am a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and expert in the field of trauma resolution. Host of the You Make Sense Podcast.

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

For so many years, I thought getting unstuck meant pushing harder, trying more, or forcing myself to be different.I'd se...
10/24/2026

For so many years, I thought getting unstuck meant pushing harder, trying more, or forcing myself to be different.

I'd set goals and white-knuckle my way toward them. I'd tell myself to just think differently, just make better choices, just stop reacting that way. I was constantly battling against my own system, wondering why nothing seemed to stick.

What I didn't understand then was that my nervous system wasn't the enemy. It was trying to protect me based on everything it had learned about what was safe and what wasn't. And the parts of me that kept pulling me back weren't sabotaging me. They were Protective Parts, doing a job they'd been given a very long time ago.

Expansive living doesn't come from fighting your way into a bigger life, my friend. It comes from learning to work with your system, gently showing it that the things you're longing for can actually feel safe in your body.

Your nervous system can become the gatekeeper between the life you're living and the life you want. Regulation helps you begin opening that gate. Parts work helps you support the protective responses that keep closing it. And when your Adult Self is back in the driver's seat, your Protective Parts don't have to work so hard to keep you small, because they start to trust that expansion won't hurt you.

This doesn't mean you'll never feel resistance, or that growth will always feel easy. But it means you can start to recognize when a Part is protecting you versus when it's safe to take the next step. One tolerable step at a time, you build the capacity to hold more (more love, more visibility, more purpose, more joy) without your system pulling you back to what's familiar.

That's the difference between hitting the same ceiling again and again and actually stepping into the life you've been longing for. 🌿

With kindness,
Sarah

For three days, live with me, you'll learn to regulate your nervous system, map one pattern that keeps pulling you back, and work with the Protective Part behind it, so your Adult Self can lead you toward what you truly want.

Taken Expansion before? This builds far beyond the original, with personal pattern mapping and somatic parts work.

Comment EXPANSION below to save your spot. 💛

So much of what gets taught about managing fear is essentially about suppression — push it down, override it, don't let ...
10/24/2026

So much of what gets taught about managing fear is essentially about suppression — push it down, override it, don't let it run you. ⤵️

But the scared Part isn't wrong for being scared, my friend. It formed around real experiences, and its fear has real roots, which means trying to silence it just makes it louder, or drives it underground where it runs things without you realizing.

What actually works is something different.

It's learning to anchor in your Adult Self – the part of you that has context the Younger Part doesn't have, that can hold what the frightened part is carrying rather than fighting it, that can look at the situation from the present instead of through the filter of the past.

When Adult You is steady and genuinely present, something shifts. The scared Part doesn't have to work so hard anymore. They can feel the steadiness and begin, slowly, to trust it, not because you told them to, but because they felt it in you. 🌿

When you do this work, which Parts tend to get the loudest? I'd love to hear in the comments.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

10/24/2026

Regret surfaces when there's more safety in your system than there used to be. It's not punishment. It's a sign you've grown enough to finally feel what you couldn't feel before. 💛

When you're running from a lion, you don't have the capacity to grieve what you're leaving behind. The nervous system is entirely focused on survival, and there's simply no room for anything else.

But when safety arrives, even partially, even imperfectly, that's when the feeling of what was lost finally has somewhere to land, my friend. The regret you're carrying isn't proof that you made catastrophic mistakes.

It's often proof that your system has built enough capacity to hold something it couldn't hold before.

That reframe doesn't make the grief smaller, but it makes it mean something very different. ✨

And if you’re ready to take that capacity somewhere – to actually learn how to work with what’s surfacing rather than just carry it – the Expansion Experience is three days live with me to do just that starting October 27th.

Comment EXPANSION and I’ll send you the link to learn more and join!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

10/23/2026

Have you ever looked back on an experience, a relationship, a conversation, an opportunity, and felt the weight of wishing you had been more present, more yourself, more fully there? 💛

That feeling is regret. And it almost always arrives after.

Here is what I want you to understand about why that is, because I think it changes everything about how you hold that regret.

During the experience itself, your nervous system was often in a state of dysregulation. Maybe it showed up as anxiety, a low hum of activation that made it hard to settle into the moment fully. Maybe it showed up as the freeze response, that half-presence, that sense of being there but not quite committed, not quite all the way in. ✨

In either state, your access to your adult self was limited. The version of you that can be fully present, fully open, fully engaged with what is happening, that version requires a nervous system that feels safe enough to be there.

And when safety wasn’t fully available, whether because of old patterns, protective responses, or states your system defaulted to without your conscious awareness, you simply could not show up the way you now wish you had.

This is not a failure of character. It is not evidence that you didn’t care enough or try hard enough. It is what happens when a nervous system that hasn’t yet been shown safety enough tries to navigate an experience that mattered deeply.

Regret, in this light, is not something to compound with self-criticism. It is information. A signal that the version of you that could have been present was there all along, just not yet accessible in that moment.

The work is building the safety that makes that version available, not later, but in the moments that matter.

In this episode, we explore why dysregulation during experiences creates regret afterward, and what it actually takes to build the presence your life is asking for.

If you are ready to begin that journey with real tools and support, comment EXPANSION below to join our three-day live experience.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Every decision your nervous system makes runs down one of three roads. And most of us don't know which one we're on. ⭐1️...
10/23/2026

Every decision your nervous system makes runs down one of three roads. And most of us don't know which one we're on. ⭐

1️⃣The first is the road of safety, where your system takes you when it's decided that what you want carries too much risk. You live smaller than you feel called to, you stay in the job or the relationship or the version of yourself that feels manageable, not because it's right but because your system has calculated it's survivable.

This road feels like a prison after a while, my friend. Comfortable enough, but not your actual life.

2️⃣The second is the road of familiarity, the road of repetition, the patterns you find yourself in again and again no matter how many times you've decided it's the last time. Your nervous system knows this road intimately.

It knows every landmine, every shortcut, every way to get you through alive, and that's exactly why it keeps taking you there even when you're exhausted from the trip.

3️⃣The third is the road of your deepest desires, where the relationship you actually want lives, where the work you're here to do lives, where the version of your life that keeps whispering to you even when you've tried to stop listening lives. Your nervous system sees this road and flags it as dangerous, because what you want most often has the flavoring of things that were once unavailable or unsafe. It's not keeping you from this road to punish you.

It just doesn't yet know that road is safe. 🌿

Your nervous system is the gatekeeper between the life you're living and the life you want.

In the Expansion Experience, we map all three roads together, and I'll show you what it actually takes to start moving toward the third one. Regulation helps you begin opening that gate. Parts work helps you support the responses that keep closing it.

Comment EXPANSION and I'll send you the link to join!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Have you ever felt absolutely certain about something in the moment to realize later it wasn't actually true?We tend to ...
10/22/2026

Have you ever felt absolutely certain about something in the moment to realize later it wasn't actually true?

We tend to associate any strong feeling with truth. If something feels intense, urgent, or overwhelming, we assume it must be telling us something important about reality. But here's what I've learned through my own journey: everything you feel is a truth to a Part or version of you. It just might not be a truth to your Adult Self.

When a Protective Part is activated, the feelings can be incredibly loud and convincing. Maybe you feel certain your partner is going to leave you, or that you're going to fail, or that something terrible is about to happen. Those feelings are so strong that they feel like undeniable truth.

But real truth, your actual intuition and inner knowing, doesn't sound like that. It's not loud or frantic or in a hurry. It's still, steady, and patient. It doesn't need to convince you or create urgency. It just is. And it's always found in regulation. That's because when you're regulated, you're actually in the present moment, which means your responses, feelings, and sensations are based in what's happening right now.

If you find yourself dysregulated (but you're actually safe) and you notice a strong feeling, that's valuable information. It's telling you that a Part of you is activated and trying to protect you based on old information. But it's not necessarily telling you the truth about your present reality.

Learning to distinguish between an activated Part and your grounded Adult Self is some of the most important work you can do. It's how you stop reacting to false alarms and start responding from a place of clarity.

Your inner wisdom is there, my friend. It's just quieter than the Parts that are afraid. 🌿

With kindness,
Sarah

PS: Inside my 3-day live immersion, Expansion Experience, you'll learn to feel the difference between a Protective Part and your Adult Self in your body, regulate when overwhelm hits, and make decisions with more access to your own truth.

You'll leave with somatic tools, daily worksheets, and a map of one pattern from your own life.

Comment EXPANSION below to save your spot. We go live October 27!

10/22/2026

The size of what you pushed away tells you how much that part was carrying. 🌟

The partner who was kind and available, and you found every reason to leave. The opportunity that would have made you visible and you talked yourself out of at the last minute. The version of your life you could see clearly and kept choosing away from, year after year, in ways that made complete sense in the moment and don't quite make sense now.

Here's what I want you to understand about those moments, my friend.

Your Protective Parts push hardest against what you want most, because what you desire most requires your greatest healing. The magnitude of the pushing away is proportionate to the magnitude of what that Part was protecting you from.

It wasn't random and it wasn't weakness. It was a part carrying something enormous, doing the only thing it knew how to do with it.

That's not a reason for shame. It's a reason for grief, for the real, appropriate grief of what happened to that part and what it cost you both. And it's an invitation to finally go back for them. 💕

The Expansion Experience is where this work begins — three days live with me starting October 27th, $37. Comment EXPANSION and I'll send you the link to join!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

10/21/2026

Have you ever caught yourself agreeing with something you didn’t actually believe? Mirroring someone else’s energy so completely that you lost track of your own? Saying yes to something, and feeling a kind of internal collapse even as the word left your mouth? 💛

This is what fawning looks like. And if this resonates, I want to offer you something that I believe changes everything about how you see it.

Your fawning part is not weak. It is not a character flaw. It is not evidence that you don’t have a backbone or that something is broken in how you relate to people.

It is one of the most devoted protectors you have.

Here is what it is actually doing: somewhere inside you, there is a deeply Vulnerable Part, a tender, exposed, precious part that has known what it feels like to be ridiculed, belittled, laughed at, or made to feel like too much. And your fawning part decided, long ago, that it would do whatever it takes to make sure that never happens again. ✨

Become a chameleon. Mirror whoever is in the room. Agree, appease, adjust, smooth over. Make yourself easy. Make yourself acceptable. Do whatever is necessary so that Vulnerable Part never has to face the pain of being exposed and rejected.

That is not weakness. That is love.

Your fawning part loves your most vulnerable self so completely that it will sacrifice your own truth to keep it safe. It will give up your opinion, your needs, your authentic response, again and again, because it believes the cost of protecting that tender place is worth it.

This is why healing fawning is never about forcing yourself to speak up or push through the discomfort. It is about meeting the vulnerable part your fawning has been protecting all along, and beginning to offer it something it perhaps never had: safety that doesn’t require you to disappear to maintain it.

If you are ready to begin that work, comment EXPANSION below to join our three-day live experience and take the first real step toward your healing.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Most people have a coping strategy for the pattern. Almost no one has been shown how to actually interrupt it at the roo...
10/21/2026

Most people have a coping strategy for the pattern. Almost no one has been shown how to actually interrupt it at the root. 🧠

Managing a pattern looks like this: you recognize what's happening, you use a tool to bring yourself back down, you get through the moment without fully losing yourself in it — and it works, mostly.

Then the next time, the same pattern activates, and you manage it again, and the time after that, and the one after that.

Managing is not the same as changing, my friend.

Managing keeps the pattern running on a quieter setting, whereas actually changing it means going back to where it formed – to the Part that built it, to the experience that made it necessary – and giving that Part something it has never had before.

There is a specific moment inside every pattern where it can be interrupted, and it's not after the fact when you're processing what happened and it's not in the middle of the flood when your system has already taken over.

There's a window, earlier than most people realize, where the loop hasn't fully closed yet and something different is still possible. That moment can be learned, and once you know where it lives inside your specific pattern, the work starts to feel genuinely different. ✨

In the Expansion Experience, I'll show you exactly where that window is and what to do when you find it. You'll leave with a map of a pattern from your own life — what sets it off, how you respond, and where you can practice doing something different. Not a concept. An actual map of your actual pattern, with tools to interrupt it.

Three days live with me, starting October 27th, $37. Comment EXPANSION and I'll send you the link to learn more!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Have you ever tried to talk, rationalize, or "will" yourself out of being stuck?I tried that for a full decade. And if y...
10/20/2026

Have you ever tried to talk, rationalize, or "will" yourself out of being stuck?

I tried that for a full decade. And if your experience has been anything like mine, you've probably noticed that forcing your way to change doesn't actually work.

Here's why 👉

More often than not, the things we want most were once dangerous or inhibited in our past. Not the specific job, partner, or house, but what it represents to your system: being seen, taking up space, using your voice, receiving, intimacy, trust, being fully yourself.

Any time something in your present reminds your nervous system of that past danger, your Protective Parts come online to stop you, often in the form of fight, flight, freeze, or shut down.

Your nervous system has been doing this job for hundreds of millions of years. It's very good at it. Which also means we can't just push past it.

Part of healing is learning to work with this system, in a language it actually understands, to finally show your Protective Parts that it's safe now to have what you're wanting.

A few places this begins:

🧠 Regulation: anything that helps your system feel more grounded, present, and here. Tapping, humming, swaying, a walk, time in nature.

💓 Connection: much of what we're carrying is relational, so healing has to be relational too. Start small, in whatever way feels safest: a pet, time outdoors, one person you trust.

👣 Tolerable steps: small steps your system can actually complete build evidence, over time, that it's safe to have what you want. That evidence is what eventually adds up to real, lasting change.

Getting unstuck really is possible. One step at a time, my friend. 🌿

This is exactly what we'll practise together inside Expansion Experience: three days, live with me, where you'll learn to regulate your nervous system, map the pattern that keeps pulling you back, and take tolerable steps toward what you want, from your Adult Self.

Comment EXPANSION, and I'll send you the link to join me live, October 27–29.

With kindness,
Sarah

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