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.

09/06/2026

Have you ever tried to do inner child work or parts work, sat with the practice, followed the steps, and still felt like something wasn't quite landing? 💛

Like you were going through the motions but the connection wasn't quite there. Like the parts didn't feel truly reached, or the healing didn't seem to go as deep as you hoped it would.

If so, there is a very specific reason for that. And it has nothing to do with how hard you tried or how willing you were.

The most common reason inner child work and IFS don't fully work is this: the person doing the work doesn't yet have access to their highest adult self.

In Internal Family Systems, this state is called "Self", though it can also be understood as your adult self, your soul self, your truest self. It is the version of you that is benevolent, loving, and kind. The version that is connected, present, and genuinely capable of meeting your parts with the warmth and attunement they have always needed. ✨

Here is the thing that matters most: your parts cannot be truly healed by another part. If you are approaching inner child work from a place of activation, anxiety, or a well-meaning but still protective part of yourself, the connection will always feel a little thin. Because the part of you doing the healing needs to be your truest, most grounded self, not another layer of protection.

This is not a reason to be discouraged. It is, in fact, one of the most clarifying pieces of information you can receive. Because once you understand it, you understand what the actual prerequisite for this work is, and what to focus on building first.

Your parts have been waiting for your highest self to show up for them. And the beautiful truth is that it has been there all along.

In this episode, we explore why accessing your adult self is the foundation of all parts work, and what it actually takes to get there.

🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

You have an adult self. You also have younger parts. And depending on which one is present in a given moment, the exact ...
09/06/2026

You have an adult self. You also have younger parts. And depending on which one is present in a given moment, the exact same situation can feel completely different. 💛

This is something I come back to again and again because it explains so much of what makes being human so confusing.

One day you can handle a hard conversation with steadiness and clarity.

Another day the same conversation sends you into shutdown or makes you say things you later can't explain.

Same relationship. Same person. Completely different internal experience.

That's not inconsistency, my friend. That's which version of you was at the wheel.

Your adult self is grounded, present, and able to see things clearly. It has access to nuance and can hold complexity. It can feel something hard without being consumed by it.

Your younger parts are also real, also valid and also running on a much older operating system — one built from experiences that happened long before this moment. When they get activated, you don't just feel young; in your nervous system, you are actually back there in that exact moment, but the feelings are happening in the present tense, in your body, with the full intensity of the original experience.

This is why healing isn't just about understanding. You can know intellectually that your partner is not your parent and still react to them like they are.

The knowing lives in your mind. The pattern lives in your body. And the parts in between are waiting for someone to show them it's different now.

Getting to know which parts are present – and when – is some of the most important work there is. ✨

If you want to understand what's happening in your nervous system and which patterns might be running your experience, I created a free quiz with personalized results. Comment QUIZ below and I'll send you the link.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Ever notice how you show up completely differently depending on how you're feeling inside? If so, this makes complete se...
09/05/2026

Ever notice how you show up completely differently depending on how you're feeling inside? If so, this makes complete sense, my friend.

Every behavior you've ever had, or held yourself back from having, is shaped by what's happening in your nervous system. Your Autonomic Nervous System is brilliantly self-protective, constantly working to keep you safe based on what it perceives in any given moment.

Depending on whether you're regulated (your system feels safe) or dysregulated (your system is actively protecting you), the behaviors you show up with can look completely different.

Behaviors often experienced in dysregulation:
👉 Difficulty slowing down or relaxing
👉 Retreating, withdrawing, avoiding
👉 Procrastination or feeling paralyzed
👉 Always being on the go
👉 Feeling stuck and unable to take action

Behaviors often experienced in regulation:
👉 Taking time to rest without guilt
👉 Feeling safe to connect and safe to be alone
👉 Moving at a pace that feels right for you
👉 Not overextending yourself
👉 Taking steps forward with ease

Can you see how different that really is? Once you understand that your behaviors aren't character flaws, but information about your nervous system state, everything starts to make sense.

That's the power of learning to regulate your system, my friend. The more you understand what's happening internally, the more choice you gain in how you show up, for yourself, for others, and for the world around you.

Ready to learn how to regulate your nervous system? Comment WORKBOOK for my free, downloadable guide to help you get started.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

09/05/2026

Your anxiety isn't a disorder. Your shutdown isn't a flaw. Your people-pleasing isn't a character defect. They're the record of everything you survived. 💕

I want to push back gently on the way healing gets talked about sometimes, because I think over-pathologizing our responses actually gets in the way of real healing, my friend.

When we approach every nervous system response as something to diagnose and eliminate, we miss the wisdom underneath it.

The anxiety was adaptive once.
The shutdown protected you when you had no other option.
The fawning kept you safe in environments that genuinely weren't safe.

Honoring that is the first sacred act of healing.

And the second is understanding that these parts of you aren't problems to be solved. They're parts of you who are still waiting to be found. Who have been holding something that was too much to hold alone. Who have never had someone come back for them.

That's what somatic healing actually is beneath all the science and the terminology. It's the experience of finally returning. 🌟

Comment YMSPOD for this week's episode link.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

09/04/2026

Your parts have been waiting for someone. 💛

Not a perfect person. Not someone who never gets activated or never feels the pull of old patterns. But someone steady. Someone rooted. Someone who can face the hard things without being swept away by them.

They have been waiting for you to become that person.

I think of this work like training. Not the kind that makes you hard or closed or impenetrable, but the kind that a gladiator does. Repeated, intentional, committed. Showing up again and again, not because it is easy, but because becoming capable of holding more requires practice. Requires repetition. Requires choosing, over and over, to stay present with what is difficult instead of retreating from it. ✨

The image I keep coming back to is a sequoia tree.

A sequoia is not moved by the storm. Its roots go so deep, its trunk so wide, that it can hold what other trees cannot. It doesn't tighten against the wind. It doesn't brace or collapse or disappear. It simply stays, rooted, present, unmoved in the ways that matter most.

This is what nervous system regulation actually creates. Not the absence of activation. Not a life without hard things. But the capacity to be with hard things, to hold activation, to feel difficulty fully, without becoming lost inside of it.

This is what your parts have needed from you all along. Not perfection. Not the absence of struggle.

But an adult who has done the work to become steady enough to be trusted. To be the sequoia in the storm.

To be the warrior who keeps showing up, keeps training, keeps building the capacity to hold what was once too much.

In this episode, we explore what it actually takes to become the adult your parts have been waiting for, and why that becoming is the foundation of everything else.

🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Your nervous system moves toward what it believes is safe, not toward what you want badly enough. 💛I spent years believi...
09/04/2026

Your nervous system moves toward what it believes is safe, not toward what you want badly enough. 💛

I spent years believing that if I just wanted something enough, I'd eventually be able to move toward it. I'd find more motivation, get clearer on my why, and commit harder.

And none of it worked, my friend. Not because I wasn't trying, but because I was trying in the wrong language.

Your nervous system doesn't speak the language of desire; it speaks the language of safety.

And when what you want most resembles something that was once dangerous or unavailable, no amount of wanting will override what your system has decided about whether it's safe to have.

This is the piece that's missing from almost everything in the self-help world. Vision boards, affirmations, goal-setting — all of it assumes that the gap between where you are and what you want is a motivation problem. But if your body doesn't feel safe receiving what you're reaching for, you're not going to reach it through effort alone.

What actually moves the needle is building your nervous system's capacity to hold what you're desiring by showing it through lived experience, in tolerable doses, that expansion doesn't have to end the way it did before.

That's not a mindset shift. It's somatic work. And it's the only thing I've found that actually changes the pattern rather than just managing it. 🌿

Has this been your experience? Drop a 💛 below if this resonates, I'd love to know.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

If you keep attracting the same patterns, it's not bad luck. It's not a character flaw. It's your nervous system running...
09/03/2026

If you keep attracting the same patterns, it's not bad luck. It's not a character flaw. It's your nervous system running a script it learned a long time ago, one that kept you safe once, and hasn't gotten the memo that it doesn't have to anymore.

That's why the "same" relationship keeps showing up in a different person. Why you keep over-functioning at work for approval you never quite feel. Why the friendships that need managing feel more familiar than the ones that don't.

Your system isn't choosing badly, my friend. It's choosing familiar. And familiar has always registered as safer than unknown, even when familiar is the thing costing you.

The way out isn't willpower. It's giving your system new, felt evidence of what safe actually feels like, in your relationships, your work, your friendships, until it stops defaulting to what it recognizes and starts choosing what's actually good for you.

This is exactly the work we do inside Navigating Your Nervous System.

And this is it, these are the final hours. Enrollment closes TODAY. Once doors close, NYNS isn't opening back up until our next round.

If you're ready to be the one choosing, not your nervous system, comment NYNS below, and I'll send you everything you need before doors close. 💛

09/03/2026

Your nervous system was never designed to regulate in isolation.

The most ancient and primary pathway back to safety that we have is co-regulation — finding safety through the regulated presence of another nervous system. Before you could self-regulate at all, someone else's calm had to teach your body what calm felt like.

For those of us who grew up in environments where that wasn't consistently available, the nervous system had to find another way. And it did that so brilliantly.

But the blueprint for who and what feels like "home" got written in those early years, and your system has been following it ever since.

This is why you can know exactly what you want in a relationship and still find yourself drawn toward the same dynamic. Your nervous system isn't choosing based on what you consciously desire, my friend. It's choosing based on what it learned to recognize as familiar. As safe. As love.

In this week's episode, I talk about how to begin shifting that blueprint… not through willpower or picking differently, but through the deeper work of healing what your system learned love to be. ✨

If you’re ready to step into your healing journey, I’d love to be your supportive guide through this transformative process. Enrollment for my live program, Navigating Your Nervous System, closes at 11:59pm PT TONIGHT!

Comment NYNS below or head to the link in my bio. Don’t forget, doors close tonight! 🚨

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

09/02/2026

There is a hibiscus plant in my front yard that stops me in my tracks every single time I walk past it. 💛

It is fully, unapologetically itself. It doesn't hold back its color because someone might find it too bright. It doesn't shrink its petals because it's worried about taking up too much space. It doesn't wilt itself to make the plants around it feel more comfortable.

It simply blooms, completely, extravagantly, exactly as it was made to bloom.

And in doing so, it gives something to everyone who walks past it. Not because it was trying to give something. But because when something in nature is fully expressed as itself, that expression becomes a gift to everything around it.

I have been thinking about what this means for us as human beings. ✨

So many of us have learned, often very early, that making ourselves smaller was the safer choice. That being too much, too bright, too expressive, too fully ourselves, came with consequences. And so we learned to hold back. To dim. To become a more manageable version of who we actually are.

But here is what I want to offer you: when you shrink yourself, the world loses something it cannot get from anyone else.

You carry a specific, unrepeatable combination of experience, perspective, gifts, and ways of seeing, something that exists nowhere else on this planet. And when you are fully expressed as yourself, you give that to the world in a way that only you ever could.

Full self-expression was never selfish. It was never too much. It was always, in the deepest sense, the most generous thing you could offer.

The hibiscus doesn't apologize for blooming. And neither, my friend, should you.

In this episode, we explore what it actually means to be fully expressed, and why the world has been waiting for exactly that from you.

🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

What if the resistance you feel right now isn't laziness or lack of motivation, but a part of you waiting until it's saf...
09/02/2026

What if the resistance you feel right now isn't laziness or lack of motivation, but a part of you waiting until it's safe to move? ⤵️

This is one of the most overlooked patterns I see, and it makes so much sense when you understand what's actually happening underneath it.

Freeze isn't a character flaw. It's a nervous system state — one that arrives when your system has calculated that moving forward carries more risk than staying still.

This does not happen consciously. Your threat detector runs this calculation in milliseconds, scanning its database for what happened the last time you tried to step toward something like this.

And if the answer involves loss, rejection, overwhelm or danger, your system doesn't say no because it doesn't believe in you; it says not yet because it doesn't yet have the evidence that moving forward is safe, my friend.

This is why you can be the most motivated, capable, clear-eyed person and still find yourself unable to take the step.

It's not your potential that's the problem; it's that a part of you is protecting you from what it believes is on the other side of that step.

The work isn't to push past that part or shame it into moving. It's to show it, through the language of the body rather than words, that this time can be different. That you are here now, and you will not let it face that alone.

That's exactly what Navigating Your Nervous System is built around. ✨

Enrollment closes tomorrow, my friend. If something in you has been circling this and not quite committing, I want you to sit with that for a moment, because that hesitation might be exactly what this course is here to address.

Comment NYNS below or head to the link in my bio to enroll before doors close! 💕

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

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