Unexpected Ways Your Body Protects You: Holding Weight, Getting Sick, Chronic Pain, Infertility, and Insomnia

Sarah explores how symptoms like weight retention, insomnia, chronic illness, chronic pain, and infertility are often a result of traumatic energy from the past still living in your body. You’ll learn what it takes to heal unresolved trauma and work with your nervous system and parts to create internal safety. Listen in for a practical guide to befriending your body and finding relief from your physical symptoms. Episode Highlights:  • [00:00] Introduction • [02:03] How trauma impacts your physical body • [07:07] Why these symptoms are a form of self-protection • [10:37] What’s happening when your see your body as the enemy • [13:25] Examples of how your body protects itself • [28:47] Tools to work with your nervous system and younger parts • [31:40] Question 1 – What is dysautonomia? How do I heal from medical trauma? • [37:35] Question 2 – What tools can I use to heal/cure my insomnia? • [41:59] Question 3 – Do you need to incorporate body work with trauma healing? 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: “Your body holds a lot. – It holds not only the joys we experience but it also holds the burdens and it holds the things we have yet to resolve all for us.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:22] “When [you] do this work, it changes everything, and it allows you to have the fullness of the human experience that you are here to have.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:30:55] “This beautiful home that you’ve been given to reside inside of, called your body, [has] not been trying to harm you; it’s only been trying to keep you safe.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:44:30] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Navigating Your Nervous System Waitlist