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You Make Sense

You Make Sense

Written by: Sarah Baldwin
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 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.2024 You Make Sense Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Self-Help Social Sciences Success
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  • The Science of Manifestation and Rewiring for Possibility

    The Science of Manifestation and Rewiring for Possibility
    Mar 3 2026

    Through a grounded, somatic lens, Sarah explores how regulation expands our capacity, why safety must be communicated in a language your nervous system understands, and how slow, tolerable steps retrain your system to tangibly move toward your desires. If you’re ready to stop forcing change and start living the life meant for you, this conversation offers a practical path forward that is backed by science.

    Episode Highlights:

    • [00:00] Introduction
    • [00:58] The science of manifestation and rewiring for possibility
    • [02:37] Chronic dysregulation can block manifestation
    • [06:38] Regulation is the key to unlocking the life you desire
    • [10:36] Why you can fantasize safely but struggle to take action
    • [16:07] The hardest thing to step towards is often the thing you want most
    • [21:24] Who is in the driver’s seat of your nervous system?
    • [23:39] Roads of safety, familiarity, and deepest desires
    • [30:29] Why affirmations and vision boards fail without somatic work
    • [32:20] Show, not tell is the language of the nervous system
    • [37:20] Working with your protective parts
    • [38:58] Building capacity through slow, tolerable steps
    • [43:49] Manifestation as incremental nervous system expansion
    • [45:59] Question 1 - Why do I keep attracting unavailable or unsafe partners?
    • [01:00:40] Question 2 - How do I feel safe being seen in my purpose?
    • [01:07:29] Question 3 - Why doesn’t money seem to stick, even when I work hard?

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    Download Sarah’s FREE Workbook:

    Not sure where to get started with somatic healing? Sarah created a FREE trauma-informed workbook called "How To Gain Control Over How You Feel" to help you step toward a life filled with more freedom, ease, and empowerment.

    Click the link below to download:

    https://bit.ly/yms-sp-workbook

    Connect with Sarah on:

    Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter

    Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching

    Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com

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    Quotes:

    “If you are chronically dysregulated, there is no amount of desire or praying or meditating or positive thinking that's ever going to create the life that you're wanting.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:09:41]

    “The things that you want the most in life, the things that you're desiring to manifest the most, usually, are going to be the hardest things to step towards in your life.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:16:15]

    “The language of the nervous system is show, not tell, or somatics, you can think ‘the felt sense.’” — Sarah Baldwin [0:34:33]

    “When you are in safety, your nervous system rests. And if a nervous system can work very hard, it most certainly can rest. We just have to show [our nervous system] that it is safe to rest.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:35:56]

    “Everything we're talking about is based in science. So, if you want to manifest, you have to use science. And the more that I've done this work, personally and professionally, [I’ve seen] the overlap of science and spirituality. They're best buddies.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:36:43]

    “You know [that] you're onto something when it's the hardest thing to step towards.” — Sarah Baldwin [01:01:07]

    “The desire of your soul is meant for you. It's your healing that gets you there.” — Sarah Baldwin [01:06:16]
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Completing the Stress Response: How to Resolve Shame, Anger, and Unworthiness

    Completing the Stress Response: How to Resolve Shame, Anger, and Unworthiness
    Feb 24 2026

    In this episode, Sarah explains how unhealthy shame forms, why unresolved anger resurfaces in safe relationships, and how we unknowingly build our lives around avoiding what once felt intolerable. She breaks down what it truly means to complete the stress response by building regulation, reconnecting with younger parts, and allowing the body to express the appropriate response it once inhibited. When the stress cycle is resolved, the lie of unworthiness dissolves. What remains is your innate capacity for strength and self-trust.

    Episode Highlights:

    • [00:00] Introduction
    • [01:16] Shame, anger, and unworthiness
    • [04:57] Protective strategies we use to avoid shame and unworthiness
    • [06:34] How “I am not enough” gets internalized in childhood
    • [11:48] Shame as the internalization of trauma
    • [13:45] Healthy shame versus unhealthy shame
    • [22:52] How unresolved shame distorts your reactions
    • [25:13] Healthy anger versus unhealthy anger
    • [28:17] Why suppressed anger resurfaces in safe relationships
    • [30:27] Key steps to resolving shame
    • [33:53] Completing the incomplete experience
    • [41:42] Question 1 - Why does rage from past assault still feel stuck in my body?
    • [48:13] Question 2 - How do I know when a trauma cycle is truly complete?
    • [52:50] Question 3 - Why does setting boundaries make me feel unloving?
    • [57:00] Question 4 - What is the healthiest way to release anger toward my family?

    Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 10-Week Program:

    Ready for tools to heal every area of your life? You Make Sense is a 10-week live program that goes far beyond these weekly podcast episodes to give you powerful somatic exercises and resources to address your nervous system, relationships, younger parts, purpose, boundaries, grief, and more!

    Click below to get on the waitlist for limited-time reduced pricing:

    https://bit.ly/sp-yms-waitlist

    Download Sarah’s FREE Workbook:

    Not sure where to get started with somatic healing? Sarah created a FREE trauma-informed workbook called "How To Gain Control Over How You Feel" to help you step toward a life filled with more freedom, ease, and empowerment.

    Click the link below to download:

    https://bit.ly/yms-sp-workbook

    Connect with Sarah on:

    Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter

    Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching

    Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com

    Submit a Question:

    sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast

    Quotes:

    “We have a primal human need for our caregivers, who brought us into the world, to love us, to choose us, and when they don't, it feels to that child like annihilation. Annihilation is worse than death. It feels like a fragmenting of us in a million pieces.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:09:04]

    “Shame is the internalization of what happened to us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:11:54]

    “What does the internalization mean? It means I am taking the thing that they are projecting at me, and I am putting it, effectively, inside of my own body.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:13:19]

    “The meaning that I make is not that this thing that happens to me is bad, this abuse is bad, or this neglect is bad, or your criticism is bad; [it’s that] I’m bad. That's the meaning that is made from internalization.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:13:31]

    “We need to bring regulation to our nervous system. That's always the beginning of everything. Why? Because we have to build our capacity to hold the shame that was once too much for us to hold.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:30:42]

    “When we love our parts, we fall in love with them, that lie of unworthiness dissolves, and all that's left is what is actually true, that we are worthy and good and whole.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:40:01]
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Why You Feel Unseen in Love: Understanding Emotional Absence and Relational Loneliness

    Why You Feel Unseen in Love: Understanding Emotional Absence and Relational Loneliness
    Feb 17 2026
    She explains how childhood roles such as becoming invisible, emotionally self-reliant, or overly responsible don’t just affect behavior; they shape attraction itself, quietly guiding who we choose and the dynamics we recreate. When these internal blueprints remain unchanged, relationships tend to repeat familiar dynamics rather than support true closeness. This conversation offers a grounded look at why feeling unseen persists in love and what it takes to change the pattern at its root. Episode Highlights:[00:00] Introduction[01:46] Why no single partner can meet every need[04:23] The importance of fullness of relationships beyond romantic partnership[07:46] Childhood experiences as the blueprint for adult relationships[09:01] The nervous system as the driver of attraction and partner selection[10:54] Early relational roles learned to maintain safety within the family system[12:30] How childhood invisibility becomes the script for adult relationships[19:19] Why insight alone does not change relational patterns[21:30] Rewriting the internal blueprint through reparenting younger parts[29:27] What healthy relationships require once healing begins[35:45] Loneliness, grief, and outgrowing familiar relational dynamics[38:39] Question 1 - How does childhood neglect lead to emotional emptiness?[44:55] Question 2 - Why do I keep feeling drawn to partners who are bad for me?[48:53] Question 3 - Why can healing feel lonely as relationships change? Get on the Waitlist for Sarah’s 10-Week Program:Ready for tools to heal every area of your life? You Make Sense is a 10-week live program that goes far beyond these weekly podcast episodes to give you powerful somatic exercises and resources to address your nervous system, relationships, younger parts, purpose, boundaries, grief, and more!Get on the waitlist for limited-time reduced pricing:https://bit.ly/sp-yms-waitlist Take Sarah’s FREE Quiz:Feeling stuck in your life? Not sure where to start with somatic healing? Sarah’s free quiz, “What’s Keeping You Stuck,” will equip you with free tools and a personalized guide to better understand your nervous system specific to you.Click below to get started:https://bit.ly/yms-sp-quiz Connect with Sarah on:Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletterInstagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoachingWebsite — sarahbaldwincoaching.com Submit a Question:sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast Quotes:“We need a variety of people in our lives to feel fully seen and fully known.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:06:23]“The goal is that, whomever you choose as your life partner, that they have the ability to meet your primary needs, and [that] they want to meet them.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:06:56]“Our childhood experiences lay the blueprint for how we experience romantic relationships and how we show up in them, meaning what we think we have to be or what we have to do in order to be safe in relationship.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:07:54]“However your caregivers showed up with you, that is going to be the type of person that you pick in romantic relationship, until you do the internal healing work.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:08:12]“If you're not in the driver's seat of your nervous system, if you haven't done stuff to resolve the past, do you know who's actually picking your relationships? Your nervous system. That threat detector and your parts are picking.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:10:07]“You are powerful. You are not powerless. – But that young part that is stuck back in that experience, they were powerless, they were a victim. And your job is to travel back to them and give them what they never got. That is really empowering.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:23:40]“When I say healthy, it doesn't mean your partner's perfect. It doesn't mean that they are getting everything right. It means that they're willing and safe. That's really all we need. Somebody who's willing and safe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:29:57]“In healing, you can't unsee what you see. You can't unknow what you know. And so as you see more the beauty of it, you can't unsee it, meaning you can't go backwards. And that's when grief comes up.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:53:57]“You are transforming when you heal, not into anything new, but you're coming back into who you actually are.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:54:10] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Join the Waitlist for You Make SenseJoin the Waitlist for Nervous System Essentials
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    57 mins
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