Sarah walks through the foundations of somatic parts work, including the importance of nervous system regulation, differentiating from our parts, and anchoring into adult self. When we’re able to meet these young parts with empathy, safety, and genuine love, the protective roles you’ve likely carried for years can finally begin to soften. Listen in to discover why falling in love with your parts is a powerful path toward lasting healing.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [01:03] Focusing on the root issue, not symptoms
• [05:35] Tending to your parts without an agenda
• [12:53] An overview of parts work
• [16:17] How to differentiate from your parts
• [18:01] Getting to know your parts and falling in love with them
• [20:16] Unburdening protective parts from their role 
• [24:30] Self-like parts and why they sound like adult you
• [29:27] Question 1 - What if I’m too anxious to have children?
• [34:55] Question 2 - Can I heal my nervous system while playing a new sport?
• [39:12] Question 3 - Why do physical symptoms return during trauma healing?
• [44:17] Question 4 - Why can I orgasm alone but not with a partner?

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Quotes:

“If you try to continually treat symptoms without getting to what's underneath it, the symptom will just continue to arise.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:02:30]

“The issue here is not that symptom, it's the protective part of you or the vulnerable part of you, [who] is suffering and struggling and doesn't feel that they are safe.” Sarah Baldwin [0:03:10]

“In order to effectively do parts work, you have to be in the driver's seat of your nervous system. Not all the time, but you have to be able to access adult you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:42]

“By differentiating from our parts, we can fall in love with them. And that is the foundation of parts work. It doesn't work if you don't fall in love with these versions of you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:20:17]

“Love is the most powerful tool. It's the most powerful weapon that there is, and it is stronger than anything else.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:26:19]

“My deepest wish for you isn't that those symptoms go away. My deepest wish for you is that you fall so deeply in love with these parts, that you set them free and that you see who you are as the parent to them, which is a miraculous, amazing being.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:28:21]

 

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