You Make Sense

The Path to Authentic Leadership Through Parts Work

Episode Summary

The pressure to lead well often collides with the longing for a full and joyful life. In this episode of You Make Sense, Sarah explores why so many leaders, parents, and helpers feel split between success and aliveness, and why that tension usually traces back to a dysregulated nervous system and our protective parts trying to keep us safe.

Episode Notes

Drawing on parts work and nervous system science, she explains how striving, control, burnout, micromanaging, and difficulty slowing down are often signs that old survival strategies are running the show. This episode will give you a tangible path toward embodied leadership, so that you can lead from your most authentic self and build more capacity for rest, joy, and fulfillment.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [01:05] Tackling the belief that success requires sacrificing a full life
• [03:10] Signs you are leading from dysregulation
• [05:59] What embodied, regulated leadership looks like
• [08:21] Why we might lead from dysregulation and protective parts
• [12:03] Key protective parts that might be running the show
• [18:02] How our nervous systems impact those around us
• [19:43] The power of nervous system regulation in leadership
• [22:04] Accessing your adult self as the foundation for change
• [24:15] Inviting protective parts into collaboration
• [26:52] Practical steps for rest, nourishment, and building capacity
• [29:52] Question 1: Staying regulated with dysregulated clients
• [36:00] Question 2: Working with parts that feel undeserving
• [42:06] Question 3: Understanding triggers around client cancellations

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Quotes:

“If you want the highest level of success as a leader, the state of your nervous system is the most important thing to focus on.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:00:43]

“If you find yourself having a really imbalanced life, that is a clue that you're likely leading from dysregulation and protective parts.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:26]

“When you're dysregulated, your full brain isn't working, which means you don't have access to [your] highest levels of creativity, critical thinking, and, of course, feeling good in your bodies. So the more regulated you are, the more regulated everybody around you becomes.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:21:13]

“It is our thriving that allows others to thrive.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:39:05]

“Every single person, I believe, is a leader in some particular way. – And the more you regulate your nervous system and reparent your parts, the more you lead from your wholeness, the more you help the world heal, and the more, most importantly, you enjoy the process.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:47:42]