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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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#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.
#87
May 5 · 59 min
When Conflict Shows Up in Our Closest Relationships
Do you avoid conflict, shut down, or expect the worst when tension shows up in your relationships? In this episode, Sarah explores why conflict can feel so scary, especially when old relational wounds get activated in the present. She explains that ruptures or disagreements are actually a normal part of any close relationships, and why the people we care about most often bring up the parts of us that still need healing.
#86
April 28 · 45 min
Learning to Love the Parts of Yourself That Protect You
Do you ever find yourself getting frustrated with, or even hating, certain patterns? What if the key to healing was falling in love with the parts responsible for these protective behaviors? In this episode, Sarah begins by inviting you to reflect on how harshly you may speak to yourself and explains why you might actually be talking to a younger version of yourself. You’ll hear a brief overview of what parts work is and the importance of unburdening these brilliant protectors.
#85
April 21 · 1 hr
Navigating Technology and Social Media Without Overwhelm
Many of us feel a responsibility to stay informed and bear witness to what’s happening in the world. But what is that level of exposure actually doing to your nervous system? In this episode, Sarah explores how the rapid rise of technology, social media, and AI has outpaced our biological capacity to process information, leaving many of us overwhelmed and dysregulated. She explains why consuming large volumes of distressing content can lead to shutdown, and why more information is not the answer
#84
April 14 · 1 hr 2 min
The Formula for Growth: Why Discomfort is Required for Your Expansion
Have you ever wondered how to step into the life you desire? More often than not, the things we want most will require our greatest healing. We may worry that resistance means we’re on the wrong path, when, in fact, it’s often a sign we’re going in the right direction. But many of us get stuck there without the right tools and support.
#83
April 7 · 54 min
Infatuation, Idealizing Romantic Partners, and Putting Others on a Pedestal
Putting other people on a pedestal or becoming infatuated may seem harmless, but when you do that, you actually disempower yourself. So why do so many of us find ourselves idealizing other people in our lives, from friends and colleagues to romantic partners? The answer lies in your nervous system and protective parts. They believe that if the most perfect person can choose you, then that means you’re lovable.
#82
March 31 · 1 hr 8 min
Why Creating Internal Safety is the Foundation for the Life You Want
Why does holding onto traumatic experiences keep you from feeling fully alive? In this episode of You Make Sense, Sarah unpacks why nervous system safety is the foundation of both healing and creating the life you desire. She explains that unresolved trauma gets stuck and stored in the body, and later in life, when anything reminds your nervous system of that experience, it reacts as if the danger is happening again in the present.
#81
March 24 · 51 min
Reparenting Your Parts: How to Release the Outcome and Build Internal Trust
Why do the patterns we most want to change keep showing up in our lives? In this episode, Sarah unpacks how behaviors like self-sabotage, perfectionism, or avoidance are actually rooted in younger parts that developed to keep us safe. Many of us come to parts work or IFS with an agenda to just “stop the pattern” — but that is actually not very effective. Real healing begins when we shift our focus from obtaining an outcome to understanding the deeper needs of the parts carrying our pain.

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