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You Make Sense

Sarah Baldwin

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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#107
Tuesday · 48 min
Healing Can Feel Worse Before It Feels Better
So much about the process of healing and coming into wholeness can feel different from what you might expect. Sometimes moving forward means feeling more anxious, sensitive, angry, or uncomfortable than before. In this episode, Sarah explains the counterintuitive nature of healing and why coming back into your body can bring unresolved emotions and pain to the surface. This does not mean you are going backward!
#106
September 15 · 1 hr 14 min
Why Does My Mind Always Go to the Worst-Case Scenario?
Have you ever wondered why you consistently assume the worst is going to happen? In this episode, Sarah explores why you may struggle to break negative thinking patterns and how this might be impacting your everyday life. This cycle cannot be solved by simply trying to “talk” your way to more positive thoughts, but instead must be addressed through the nervous system.
#105
September 8 · 50 min
Developmental Trauma and How Your Past Shapes Your Present
What does a young child need when they are in distress? Not an explanation, but the felt experience of safety and connection. Developmental trauma is stored in the body, which means logic or rationalization isn’t enough to create lasting change. In this episode, Sarah explains how early experiences shape the nervous system, why attachment wounding becomes the blueprint for adult relationships, and how we project our past onto the present.
#104
September 1 · 59 min
The Spiritual Nature of Somatic Healing and Parts Work
Science and spirituality are not inherently opposed, yet the world often insists on positioning them as such. In reality, the culmination of both science and spirituality is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding ourselves and fostering growth. In this episode, Sarah shares how she moved into a deeper understanding of connection, consciousness, and what healing can look like when we work with, rather than against, our nervous system.
#103
August 25 · 1 hr 11 min
The Fundamentals of Nervous System Regulation
If you are trying to “talk” or rationalize your way out of anxiety, fear, or hopelessness, you might be speaking the wrong language to your nervous system. With the understanding that every part of your lived experience is rooted in the body, Sarah explores the fundamentals of the autonomic nervous system and how you can step into the driver’s seat by learning to speak to it in a way it understands and responds to.
#102
August 18 · 55 min
Understanding Self-Sabotaging Behaviors and Why We Do Them
Why do we keep getting in our own way, even when we genuinely want to change? Behaviors that we use to numb or sabotage can feel frustrating, but Sarah explains why these are actually intelligent survival responses. You’ll learn the reason patterns like avoidance, overworking, doom scrolling, and overeating develop, and why simply “trying harder” isn't enough to create lasting change.
#101
August 11 · 1 hr
Is It My Intuition? Or Is It a Trauma Response?
So many of us believe we’re connected to our intuition when, in fact, we may be experiencing a trauma response. In this episode, Sarah explores how to distinguish between your highest truth and a truth rooted in self-protection. While every sensation or feeling we experience is a truth to a part of you, it might not actually be the truth of your adult self.
#100
August 4 · 42 min
Suppressed Emotions & Moving Feelings Through Your Body
What happens to the emotions you never allow yourself to feel? Suppressing feelings may seem like the safest option in the moment, but that doesn't mean they disappear. In this episode, Sarah explains how emotions that weren’t safe to express can become stuck in the body, why so many of us lose touch with what we're truly feeling, and how this can shape our relationships, physical well-being, and sense of aliveness.
#99
July 28 · 1 hr 1 min
Your Nervous System Creates Your Perception
We often assume our emotions and reactions reflect the truth of the present moment. But in reality, our perception of ourselves, others, and the world around us is entirely shaped by our nervous system. When we’re triggered, our system is essentially “time traveling” back to the past, drawing on painful, unresolved experiences to inform how we interpret and respond to the present.
#98
July 21 · 56 min
How Do I Know if I Should Leave or Stay In a Relationship?
Should you stay in your relationship or leave? It's one of the most common questions people ask when romantic partnerships become difficult. And even though it’s natural to turn to other people for advice, the truth is that no one else can answer that question for you. Only your adult self knows whether it’s time to leave. The challenge is that younger protective parts often show up in our relationships, influencing these decisions out of fear or self-protection.
#97
July 14 · 41 min
Understanding the Trauma Feedback Loop and How We Subconsciously Create Our Own Reality
So many of the painful patterns we experience in life seem impossible to break, no matter how hard we try to change. But what if those patterns are not a reflection of who we are, but rather subconscious survival responses shaped by experiences from our past? In this episode, Sarah explores the trauma feedback loop and explains why the nervous system often seeks out and recreates familiar dynamics, even when those patterns continue to cause pain and keep us stuck.
#96
July 7 · 53 min
Finding Your People and Navigating Adult Friendships
Friendship plays an essential role in living a full and connected life. But in a world that often prioritizes romantic partnership above all else, the importance of community and platonic intimacy is frequently overlooked. In this episode, Sarah explores why community and platonic intimacy are essential to overall well-being and why expecting one person to meet all our emotional needs can leave us feeling disconnected and alone.
#95
June 30 · 1 hr 19 min
Living a Full Life Without Sacrificing Ambition
What does it mean to live a full life? Humans are incredibly complex beings who need a multitude of things in order to thrive, like community, partnership, purpose, and nourishment. In this episode, Sarah breaks down the positive impact of having ambition, the dangers of prioritizing striving above all else, and why you might find it difficult to create balance in your life.
#94
June 23 · 48 min
How to Attract and Create the Relationship of Your Dreams
Many people believe finding the right partner is a matter of luck. But what if who you're drawn to is shaped by a blueprint for love you didn't consciously choose? In this episode, Sarah explores how the nervous system influences attraction and the patterns that keep us choosing the same kinds of relationships despite our best intentions.
#93
June 16 · 45 min
Unexpected Ways Your Body Protects You: Holding Weight, Getting Sick, Chronic Pain, Infertility, and Insomnia
Do you ever feel like your body is the enemy? Maybe you’re holding weight despite rigorous workout routines or you always get sick right before an important event. In this episode, you’ll learn how trauma gets stuck and stored in the body and why many of the symptoms you may be experiencing are actually loving forms of self-protection.
#92
June 9 · 53 min
Reclaiming Your Sense of Self
Do you find yourself stuck in the same patterns or struggling to know what your truth is? This is often a sign that you’re not actually in the driver’s seat of your experience, but rather, that a younger part has taken hold of the wheel. In this episode, Sarah breaks down the basics of parts work, how your protective parts developed to keep you safe, and why the person your parts are waiting for is you.
#91
June 2 · 1 hr 1 min
Navigating Big Life Changes with Trust
What if, in every ending, we were able to find and experience a new beginning? Big life changes mean that something has to end — whether that’s shifting the dynamic, saying goodbye to an old routine, or deciding to leave a relationship. Sarah examines how everything in nature is always in a state of change. So if resisting change only causes us pain, how do we actually begin to allow it instead?
#90
May 26 · 1 hr 6 min
Escapism, Living in Fantasy, and Idealizing Our Lives
What if fantasizing is actually keeping you from the life that you want? On the surface, focusing only on the things you desire can seem like a positive thing, but in reality, it’s often a sign you have a protective part running the show. Through the lens of parts work, Sarah unpacks how fantasizing parts protect us, why they show up, and how not processing the past will inevitably lead to more suffering.
#89
May 19 · 46 min
What Fawning Really Is and Why It Happens
Have you ever found yourself abandoning your own needs and desires to keep others happy? Maybe you don’t even know why you’re doing it. In this episode, Sarah explores what fawning is and why it happens. She shares her own experience and explains how this self-protective behavior develops, often in early childhood, as a way to keep you safe.
#88
May 12 · 47 min
The Nervous System Path to Wealth and Abundance
What if your level of financial abundance isn't tied to your bank account or your hustle but your nervous system's capacity to hold wealth? In today’s episode, Sarah explores how you can step toward more freedom around money by working with your nervous system and parts. Using nature as a blueprint, she will show you how to connect with your own natural rhythm of giving and receiving.

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