Sarah offers a grounded, science-backed perspective on how to engage with technology in a way that supports your well-being. From understanding secondary trauma to recognizing how dopamine-driven platforms impact your daily life, she shares practical ways to protect your energy, tend to your inner parts, and stay anchored in regulation. Listen in for a clear, compassionate guide to navigating the digital world without losing yourself in it.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:53] The role of technology and social media in our lives
• [02:32] Why your nervous system can’t keep up with modern technology
• [05:02] Secondary trauma and content consumption
• [06:42] Why overconsumption leads to dysregulation and shutdown
• [10:24] How online content can activate your parts (and how to protect them)
• [13:28] Why regulation is a powerful form of activism
• [16:37] Embracing different types of activism
• [24:10] Stepping into your calling from a place of regulation
• [28:53] How dopamine-driven platforms dull joy and connection
• [30:25] Rebuilding presence, creativity, and connection offline
• [34:42] Question 1 - How do you stay informed without becoming overwhelmed?
• [42:59] Question 2 - How do you follow your values as a business leader on social media?
• [51:28] Question 3 - How do you handle negative comments without internalizing them?

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

Get Started with Nervous System Regulation:

Ready to make tangible shifts in your life? Sarah’s brand-new introductory course, Nervous System Essentials, will equip you with science-backed tools to regulate your nervous system, so that you can experience more freedom and ease in your daily life.

Join the course for only $67:

bit.ly/sp-nse

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:

“You are not just digesting information with your eyes or with your mind. You are digesting information, and it is being metabolized through your nervous system.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:25]

“For many of us, we're finding ourselves in a time where we're overconsumed with trauma, and that leaves us in this chronic state of dysregulation.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:08:50]

“The highest form of activism that any of us can do is bringing regulation to our own nervous systems.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:13:35]

“The more regulated you are, the more you help the world.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:17:50]

“Tending your own parts is the most important thing [you] can do, because if you are in distress, you cannot help another person, because nervous systems affect other nervous systems.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:19:10]

“The more that we are able to tend to our nervous system and build a positive, safe, healthy relationship with technology, the more it can serve us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:32:40]

In this episode, Sarah unpacks the formula for growth and why tolerating discomfort is a key component of stepping into your purpose. You’ll get a somatic roadmap for how to work with your nervous system, tend to your younger parts, and unpack jealousy for deeper clarity on your desires. One gentle step at a time, it’s possible to expand into the bigger life meant for you.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [01:34] Resistance as an indicator you’re on the right path
• [04:02] Why our greatest desires require our greatest healing
• [09:26] Building your capacity to tolerate discomfort
• [12:48] Why feelings aren’t always your adult self’s truth
• [21:29] The formula for stepping toward the life you want
• [22:21] Connecting to the thing you deeply desire
• [25:00] Asking what healing requires of you
• [29:26] Reparenting the vulnerable part that was wounded
• [33:43] Getting to know your protective parts
• [35:38] Showing your parts the life you’re heading towards
• [46:58] Question 1 – How can I make regulation more tolerable for me and my parts?
• [52:55] Question 2 – Will taking medication affect the process of reparenting my parts?
• [58:20] Question 3 – What is the trauma vortex and how does it work?

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

Get Started with Nervous System Regulation:

Ready to make tangible shifts in your life? Sarah’s brand-new introductory course, Nervous System Essentials, will equip you with science-backed tools to regulate your nervous system, so that you can experience more freedom and ease in your daily life.

Join the course for only $67:

http://bit.ly/sp-nse

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:

“The things that we want the most in our lives will require our greatest healing, and that means that they’re going to require us to experience and to tolerate discomfort along the way.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:01:18]

“The feelings you might be having at any given moment are a truth to a part of you, they just may not be the truth to your adult self.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:16:33]

“A competent protector or adult self needs to have two qualities: you are soft and attuned, and you are ferociously protective. When you are both of those things, you are in the trust of the protector, and they are able to rest.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:35:09]

“Just because stepping into your purpose is a lot of work [doesn’t mean it’s] wrong. It’s the healing of the past that is taking all that energy, and it’s supposed to. And the more you do it, the easier it becomes.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:43:41]

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

NYNS Waitlist: https://bit.ly/sp-nyns-waitlist

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

In this episode, Sarah breaks down the origins of idealization and infatuation, showing how these patterns are rooted in unresolved experiences and protective strategies. She explains why infatuation is not love, but a survival response that pulls you out of your adult self and into fantasy. Sarah shares what it takes to shift these dynamics through reparenting and parts work, so you can move from survival-based patterns into grounded, mutual connection.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:42] Why you idealize partners and become infatuated
• [04:28] How your threat detector drives attraction
• [08:03] The internal dynamics of “pedestal” relationships
• [11:03] Origins of idealization: fantasizing as a way to escape and self-protect
• [14:11] What infatuation feels like (and why it’s not love)
• [22:39] Reparenting, parts work, and accessing “adult you” in relationships
• [25:51] What healthy love looks like
• [29:35] Asking yourself what you’re actually looking for
• [31:15] Other areas where we put people on a pedestal (and learning to love yourself)
• [34:06] Question 1 - What is limerence in relationships, and why does it happen?
• [38:03] Question 2 - How do I stay authentic around people I admire without belittling myself?
• [43:16] Question 3 - What's the difference between narcissism and an avoidant attachment?

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:

“Our system is essentially saying: If I can be chosen by the best person, or the most perfect person, or the shiniest penny, then maybe that means I’m lovable.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:01:38]

“[Idealization and infatuation] occurs when we've had a younger part of us who wasn't chosen, who was abandoned, or who experienced love from a conditional place.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:01:54]

“Someone who has done their work and is healthy in a relationship—they don't want to be put on a pedestal. Because when you're put on a pedestal, you are not actually seen and known.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:08:39]

“Adult love is not infatuation.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:26:46]

“When you actually love from Adult you, you are deeply able to take in the wholeness of that person.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:27:27]