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Somatic Expert: You Can’t Heal Trauma Without "Time Travel" (Sarah Baldwin)

Author
Sarah Baldwin, Josh Trent
Published
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://joshtrent.com/763

Is your nervous system keeping you stuck in old patterns and narratives?

Josh Trent welcomes Sarah Baldwin, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 763, to reveal how we “time travel” through our autonomic nervous system, reacting to past experiences instead of living in the present, and how we can regulate our nervous system, heal generational wounds, and create deep, authentic connection by loving our parts into wholeness.

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In This Episode, Sarah Baldwin Uncovers: [01:15] Don't Let Your Nervous System Take Over Your Life
  • How we're time-travelling all the time.
  • Why the language of our autonomic nervous system is the language of our body.
  • How feeling unlovable or unworthy is a protective response of our nervous system.
  • What causes our nervous system takes over and govern our lives.
  • How we're searching for danger every millisecond.
  • Why we can't enjoy the beautiful things in life if we're not regulated.
  • What makes us react to our partner's frustration based on our childhood experience with our parents.
  • How we can get the same feelings and sensations from our past in the present moment.

Resources:

[12:10] The Key to Inner Child Healing
  • How emotional healing feels very mystical no matter the amount of research.
  • What it truly means to become an adult.
  • How bringing regulation to our nervous system helps us heal our inner child.
  • Why we can't be scared of our inner child's fears.
  • The importance of knowing the difference between our true self and parts of ourself.
  • How we need to fall in love with our parts.
  • What it takes for us to become a good parent to our child parts.
  • How we can leave the past in the past.
  • Sarah's journey of healing from childhood sexual abuse.

Resources:

[23:05] The Role of Protective Parents
  • How Sarah facilitates the meeting of our different parts.
  • Why we need to access our predator energy to protect ourselves and the people we love.
  • How lions navigate danger and regulate their cubs' nervous system.
  • Why children need protective parents.
[29:45] How to Learn to Love Your Protective Parts
  • How hypervigilance is created in the sympathetic nervous system.
  • Why we need to be the parent to our parts, otherwise the nervous system will take over to protect our parts.
  • How our protective parts create suffering and how to stop that.
  • Why having the most exposed part of us rejected is one of the most painful experiences for children.
  • The importance of falling in love with our protective parts.
  • How Sarah's teenage part was pushing people away because she didn't believe they could truly love her.
[38:30] How to Use Psychedelics for Healing
  • How plant medicine is often used irresponsibly.
  • Why mysticism and science are the same thing.
  • How becoming embodied helps us listen to our internal voice.
  • The role of psychedelics in parts work.
  • How MDMA shuts down our fear centre.

Resources:

[43:40] Somatic Experiencing
  • Why we don't need anyone to help us heal.
  • How neuroscience helped Sarah fall in love with herself.
  • Why our therapist should help us become the parent to our parts.
  • Trauma work should never overwhelm and retraumatize us.
[48:10] The Pain of Suffering Pushes You to Change
  • Why we only change when the pain of suffering becomes bigger than the fear of change.
  • How Sarah recreated the same dynamic from her childhood in her marriage.
  • Why we need to focus on getting to know our young parts.
  • How doing parts work allowed Sarah to receive her new partner.
[52:40] Learn How to Receive
  • How Sarah thought suffering would help her get things.
  • Why we need to train ourselves to receive without having to work hard.
  • How most severely traumatized people don't find a way to heal.
  • Why therapists cannot be triggered by our own wounds.
[56:55] The Dangers of Breathwork
  • How breathwork paired with other modalities can help us heal.
  • The importance of bringing different healing tools together.
  • Why breathwork can be harmful if our nervous system doesn't know how to pendulate.
  • How breathwork can get us stuck in the trauma vortex.
[01:01:45] Create Your Toolbox for Nervous System Regulation
  • The importance of doing regular neuro-exercises and working with a somatic practitioner.
  • How we can find out what regulates our nervous system.
  • Why dancing can regulate us.
  • How noticing subtle feelings tells us we're more present and regulated.

Resources:

[01:05:20] The Mind Trap
  • What price we pay for sacrificing our authenticity.
  • The real-life difference between hell and heaven.
  • How Sarah experienced a divine union.

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All Resources From This Episode Power Quotes From Sarah Baldwin

"People don’t change because they feel great. They change when the pain of suffering becomes bigger than the fear of change itself." — Sarah Baldwin

"When we do parts work, we have to go back to the state dependent memory in order to resolve it. That means we have to time travel. So we will feel the exact feelings, sensations, and have the same thoughts as that tiny child we once used to be." — Sarah Baldwin

"A protective part's job is to ensure that your most vulnerable parts never experience what they experienced in the past again. So if we are not the parent to these parts, our nervous system shows up as the ultimate parent in the form of a protective part." — Sarah Baldwin

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Sarah Baldwin is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and trauma‑trained life coach who transformed her own decades-long experience of complex trauma into a mission to guide others toward nervous‑system healing and embodied resilience.

After conventional therapy and self-education left her stuck, somatic work became the turning point, shifting her past to the past and restoring her presence in life.

She is certified in Somatic Experiencing through Peter Levine’s program, trained in Polyvagal Theory via the Polyvagal Institute, and skilled in attachment, inner-child, and parts work, along with trauma-informed life coaching trained by Martha Beck.

Her work brings together the latest neuroscience and Polyvagal Theory to help people shift out of survival responses, in states of fight, freeze, or shutdown, and into empowered living with more ease, choice, connection, and creativity

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