You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity

and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here. Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

Today is a very exciting and special episode, as I am joined by Sarah Baldwin. If you don't know Sarah's work,

Sarah is a somatic experiencing practitioner and trauma coach. She's trained in polyvagal interventions

and is on the training team at the Polyvagal Institute. She specialises in somatic trauma

healing, attachment work, parts and inner child work, and nervous system regulation.

So I'm sure that you can imagine from that introduction and that bio, you can understand why I'm so excited to have Sarah join us here.

Today we're going to be talking all about the role of the nervous system in influencing, shaping, regulating our emotional experience

and how becoming more fluent in our nervous system can really support us to become more empowered

in not only our relationships, but our life more broadly. So Sarah, welcome. Thank you for joining me on the show.

Thank you so much for having me. It is so good to be here with you today and so good to be here

with everyone listening. So we've got a lot of ground to cover. Let's dive straight in. You know,

I speak about nervous system regulation a little bit on the podcast.

It's something that I cover in my online course around anxious attachment. And to be very

honest with you, when I first created that course and included a module on nervous system regulation,

I was worried that people's eyes would glaze over.

They'd sort of, you know, I'd lose people because it might not sound that sexy to people,

you know, understanding our nervous system. And, you know, I was always really pleasantly surprised

that people came back and said, you know, wow, this changes everything. This is really the missing piece.

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