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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 45 MIN

Learning to Love the Parts of Yourself That Protect You

from You Make Sense · host Sarah Baldwin Coaching

Sarah highlights simple, effective steps to help you connect with your protective parts by anchoring into your adult self and getting to know that version of you. From seeing your younger parts as separate to letting go of any agenda toward them, this episode offers guidance you can apply on your healing journey. Tune in for an eye-opening and thought-provoking conversation about learning to fall in love with all parts of yourself. Episode Highlights: [00:00] Introduction [00:53] Things you beat yourself up for [07:33] What parts work is [14:40] Why protective parts develop [16:19] How to fall in love with protective parts [22:39] The path to unburdening and integration [27:16] Question 1 – How do you figure out what part of you is in distress? [33:10] Question 2 – How do you regulate your nervous system after trauma? [39:47] Question 3 – How do you support your parts to step into your full potential? 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   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-newsletter Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com Submit a Question: sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast   Quotes: “Do you know why [your protective parts] developed? Because you didn’t have an adult as a child who actually protected your vulnerable part.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:14:42] “In order for [this work] to work, you have to be in your adult self.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:17:42] “It can feel really hard to love [protective parts] if we don’t understand them.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:25:34]

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.

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