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.

06/26/2026

For most of my life, I knew exactly what it felt like to be unseen. 💛

Years of neglect. Relationships where I felt invisible, no matter how much of myself I gave. I knew that ache intimately.

So when I finally found a partner who truly saw me, who could read my energy, who noticed the moment I wasn't actually fine, I expected it to feel like relief.

It didn't.

I was genuinely shocked by how uncomfortable being truly seen actually felt.

I wanted it. I had wanted it for years. And yet, in the moment it was finally happening, I found myself taking up space for only a breath before instinctively deflecting, making myself smaller, redirecting attention, doing anything to avoid staying in the spotlight of someone's full attention. ✨

I also lost something I didn't realize I relied on: the ability to hide.

My partner could read me. Could feel when something was off, even when I insisted I was fine. There was nowhere left to retreat to.

And I'm learning that this discomfort isn't a sign that something is wrong with me, or that I don't actually want connection. It's simply the next layer of this work, learning not just to be seen, but to tolerate being seen. To let myself stay in the light instead of slipping back into the shadows the moment it gets uncomfortable.

This is the next phase of growth for me, my friend. And if any of this resonates, I have a feeling it might be yours too.

In this episode, we go deeper into what it really takes to let yourself be known, and why being seen can feel just as activating as being invisible once did.

🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

The closer you get to change, the louder your protective parts become. 💛You're finally ready to leave the relationship, ...
06/26/2026

The closer you get to change, the louder your protective parts become. 💛

You're finally ready to leave the relationship, start the business, move to the new city, and suddenly every reason why you shouldn't floods your system.

Self-doubt, fear, worst-case scenarios, the urge to stay exactly where you are even though you've been working toward this for months.

That's not intuition telling you to stop, my friend.

That's your protective parts doing what they've always done – trying to keep you in what's familiar because familiar feels safer than unknown.

They don't know that this change is what you've been longing for.

They just know that big shifts once meant danger, and they're showing up to protect you the only way they know how.

Understanding this helps you move forward anyway, holding their hands through it instead of abandoning the change out of fear. 💕

Learning to work with your protective parts instead of being controlled by them is what NYNS teaches so fear doesn't keep you from the life you're longing for.

Comment NYNS below to learn more and join the waitlist!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Do you find yourself wondering what others think of you, needing to be liked, or quietly becoming whomever you think som...
06/25/2026

Do you find yourself wondering what others think of you, needing to be liked, or quietly becoming whomever you think someone else needs you to be? 💛

If that feels familiar, please know, you are not alone, and these patterns make complete sense.

Needing others to approve of us is often one of the most intelligent survival strategies our nervous system developed in childhood. If love ever felt conditional, or certain parts of you weren't safe to show, your system adapted.

You learned to fawn, to people-please, to become what others needed, because that strategy kept you connected. It kept you belonging.

And it worked.

But these patterns have a way of following us into adulthood. They can make it hard to set boundaries, move through conflict, express ourselves honestly, or even know what we actually think and feel anymore.

The ways your system learned to protect you are genuinely remarkable. Your nervous system found strategies to keep you safe before you even had the language to understand what was happening.

And yet, we can't be truly known if we never let people see who we really are. Which can leave us feeling profoundly alone even in the middle of connection.

The healing work isn't about dismantling these patterns overnight. It's about gently, slowly beginning to let the real you be seen, in small, tolerable steps that your nervous system can actually hold.

If you'd like a gentle place to begin, I made a free workbook, How to Gain Control Over How You Feel. It is a soft first step toward understanding and working with your nervous system at a pace it can actually hold.

Comment WORKBOOK and I'll send it straight to you.

The world deserves to know who you really are, my friend.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

06/25/2026

You're not attracting unhealthy relationships because you don't know better, you're attracting them because your nervous system feels safe with what's familiar. 💛

The person who's emotionally unavailable feels like home if that's what love looked like growing up.
The push-pull dynamic feels right if connection was always inconsistent.
The partner who needs you to be smaller mirrors what you learned about taking up space, my friend.

Your system chooses familiar over healthy every time because familiar is predictable, and predictable feels safer, even when it hurts.

The work isn't just knowing what you deserve, it's showing your nervous system through healing that something different can actually be safe for you now. ✨

In this week's episode, I break down how to do this so you can step into healthier relationships and experience the love you are so deserving of. Comment YMSPOD for the link to listen!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

06/24/2026

Have you ever left a relationship, told yourself "next time will be different," and somehow ended up right back in the same pattern, just with a new face? 💛

It makes so much sense that this keeps happening, my friend.

Picking someone who seems different on the surface, moving to a new city, or starting fresh can feel like real change. But so often, it may not actually be all that new and different.

Here's why: your nervous system has a built-in threat detector, what we call neuroception, constantly scanning for safety and danger beneath the surface of everything you experience. And even when someone looks nothing like your past relationships, your system can pick up on subtle cues that quietly match old patterns. Not because you're choosing wrong.

But because a part of you is still looking for something familiar, something unresolved.

This is why surface-level changes rarely create lasting change.

Real change happens at a deeper level, through somatic parts work, where we begin to understand and gently work with the parts of us driving these patterns, and through reparenting, where we learn to give our younger parts the safety, consistency, and care they didn't receive the first time around. ✨

Because the parts of you choosing these patterns aren't broken.

They're just still waiting for something they never got, and they'll keep looking until they find it within you.

In this episode, we go deep into why surface-level change doesn't break old patterns, and what it actually takes to create real, lasting change at the level of your nervous system.

🎙️ Comment YMSPOD below for the link to listen.

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

You don't just carry your childhood trauma with you, you project it onto the people closest to you. ❤️‍🩹Your partner doe...
06/24/2026

You don't just carry your childhood trauma with you, you project it onto the people closest to you. ❤️‍🩹

Your partner does something that reminds your system of your dad, and suddenly, you're treating them like they're going to hurt you the way he did.

They're not doing what your dad did, but your nervous system doesn't see the difference, my friend.

It sees the similarity and assumes the outcome will be the same.

So you brace, protect, pull away, or pick a fight with someone who hasn't actually done the thing you're defending against.

This is why you can be in a safe relationship and still not feel safe.

Your body is superimposing the past onto the present, holding your partner accountable for crimes they didn't commit.

Taking steps toward healing means learning to see when you're reacting to who's in front of you versus reacting to who hurt you years ago. ✨

Learning to see when your nervous system is reacting to past trauma vs present reality is what I teach in Navigating Your Nervous System, a 6-week course that gives you the tools to regulate so you can step into the life you desire.

Comment NYNS below to join the waitlist!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Have you ever felt like your emotions, reactions, or circumstances are running the show?Your Autonomic Nervous System is...
06/23/2026

Have you ever felt like your emotions, reactions, or circumstances are running the show?

Your Autonomic Nervous System is one of the most powerful forces shaping your daily experience. It can keep you feeling contracted and stuck, or it can become the foundation for a life that feels expansive, joyful, and truly yours.

This remarkable system determines whether you move through life from a place of ease, connection, and presence, or from a place of chronic dysregulation, where life feels like it's constantly happening to you.

Here's what I want you to remember: you are not at the mercy of this system. You can learn to work with it.

If no one ever taught you how to regulate your nervous system, that makes complete sense. We spend years learning algebra and history, but almost nothing about this fundamental system that shapes every moment of our lives!

⭐ Learning to regulate is like moving from the back seat to the driver's seat of your own life. Instead of being pulled along by your reactions, you begin to have a real say in how you respond.

Like any meaningful skill, it takes practice. But the more consistently you use these tools, the more time you naturally spend in the state we all long for: presence, connection, belonging, ease, and joy.

The tools exist. They work. And you can learn to use them in a way that feels right for your system. 💛

If you're looking for more tools like these to help you gain control over how you feel and step into the life you're longing for, comment NYNS below to join the waitlist for Navigating Your Nervous System, my 6-week live course launching later this Summer!

Those on the waitlist also receive special discounts ⭐️

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

06/23/2026

If you keep attracting the same unavailable people, the same dynamics, the same disappointments, it's not because you're bad at choosing partners. 💛

It's because your nervous system is choosing for you, my friend.

And your system isn't choosing based on what you consciously want; it's choosing based on what feels familiar, what matches your attachment patterns, and what your parts believe you can handle.

So you can know exactly what a healthy relationship looks like and still find yourself drawn to people who can't actually meet you there.

In this week's episode, I talk about how to shift this at the nervous system level – how to stop attracting what's familiar and start attracting what's actually aligned with the relationship you desire.

This isn't about making yourself more attractive or learning better dating strategies; it's about healing the parts that keep pulling you toward what you've always known instead of what you're ready for now. ✨

This episode is out now wherever you get your podcasts – comment YMSPOD below and I'll send you the link to listen!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Regulation isn't about removing life's hard things.It's about building the internal capacity to move toward them. 💛When ...
06/22/2026

Regulation isn't about removing life's hard things.

It's about building the internal capacity to move toward them. 💛

When something feels overwhelming, uncertain, or emotionally activating, avoidance is a very natural response. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it's designed to do, scanning for threat and trying to keep you safe.

But here's what regulation actually gives us: the ability to be with that activation rather than be consumed by it. To begin discharging it from the body. To take one tolerable step toward what we might usually turn away from.

And a tolerable step will likely bring some discomfort, that's your nervous system asking, "are you sure this is safe?"

But it's a step you can complete without being overwhelmed.

That's how we begin showing your system something new:

"This is hard… and I can be with it."
"This feels uncomfortable… and I'm still okay."

Regulation doesn't make life easier. It expands your capacity to move through it, with more steadiness, more presence, and more internal safety than before.

If you're ready to find true regulation so you can step into the life you truly desire, my 6-week live online program, Navigating Your Nervous System, is launching later this Summer.

Comment NYNS below to join the waitlist (and get a discount!)

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

Sometimes your reaction is about what's happening now, and sometimes it's about what happened then. 💕Learning to tell th...
06/22/2026

Sometimes your reaction is about what's happening now, and sometimes it's about what happened then. 💕

Learning to tell the difference is one of the most important skills in this work, my friend.

A present-day reaction is proportional to what's actually occurring. You feel disappointed, frustrated, or hurt in a way that matches the situation.

But when a past wound gets activated, your response is bigger than what's happening now.

You're flooded, shut down, or dysregulated in a way that doesn't quite fit the moment, because your system is responding to what this reminds you of, not just what this is.

Your partner forgets to text you back, and you spiral into "they don't care about me" – that's the wound.
Your boss gives feedback, and you feel shame that's out of proportion to what was said – that's the wound.

When you can recognize the difference, you can work with what actually needs healing instead of trying to fix the present situation. ✨

If you’re ready to better understand your nervous system and take steps toward healing, comment QUIZ below to receive the link to my free quiz!

With kindness and belief in your healing,
Sarah

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