Finding Your People and Navigating Adult Friendships

For many of us, navigating friendship in adulthood can feel surprisingly complicated, especially when healing starts to change how we connect with people. Sarah unpacks how our nervous system shapes the way we relate to others, why we might experience loneliness during periods of growth, and what it takes to build the kind of community that helps us feel supported and deeply connected. This episode is a timely reminder that finding your people and building meaningful relationships are essential to our sense of connection and belonging.

Episode Highlights:
• [00:00] Introduction
• [01:42] Why no one person can meet all our emotional needs
• [04:23] Your relationships as a reflection of where you are in your healing journey
• [08:08] How healing and growth change your relational dynamics
• [12:51] Why personal growth can create grief and loneliness in friendships
• [14:54] The need for flexibility as relationships evolve
• [17:35] Why deep connection can feel difficult when the nervous system feels unsafe
• [19:13] Building community as an adult and learning to seek connection intentionally
• [33:29] Question 1 - Why do I struggle to maintain close friendships?
• [37:27] Question 2 - Why do I overshare and feel ashamed afterward?
• [46:41] Question 3 - How does nervous system regulation affect the relationships around us?

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Quotes:
“We're at a time in our world where I think one of the most undervalued things that we all need is intimacy in platonic relationships.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:00:38]
“If we are deficient in having community and having close, intimate, platonic relationships, we are going to feel a sense of loneliness, even if you have an amazing partner, because no one person can be everything to you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:04:08]
“Finding friends as an adult is like dating, it really is.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:20:57]
“We're supposed to function in a way where we are in community, we are in connection, where you experience intimacy not just with your romantic partner, but you experience deep intimacy with your friends.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:29:28]
“The more that you can show up authentically as you—imperfectly perfect—the more it allows people to see you. So, when people see you, and you see them, you experience intimacy; being seen and being known.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:52:06]