Reclaiming Me: Heal Your Childhood Attachment Wounds, People Pleasing, and Complex PTSD for Women

Are you a woman who has done years of healing work on your attachment trauma, yet still feel unable to let go of people-pleasing and perfectionism? This trauma-informed podcast helps women with complex PTSD heal the lasting impact of childhood attachment wounds from parents and caregivers so you can finally release survival patterns, rebuild self-trust, and create relationships rooted in authenticity, confidence, and emotional safety. Listen each week to learn how to: • Understand how trauma, attachment patterns, and overthinking fuel anxiety, stress, and burnout. • Release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and outdated identities that keep you playing small. • Build healthy boundaries, embodied self-trust, and a grounded sense of purpose and worth. **Ready to begin your healing? Start with the rebrand episode of Reclaiming Me: E66: Why You Can’t Heal Your Attachment Style Without Trauma Work (The Truth Behind the Rebrand of Reclaiming Me). ** I'm your host, Cindy Payne—a licensed professional counselor, certified yoga teacher, and C-PTSD survivor—offers a new episode each Monday, and a Wednesday Midweek Reframe teaching a practical skill or concept, so you can reduce the impact of C-PTSD symptoms and improve relationships. Work With Me: Ready for deeper support? Explore therapy or book a consultation here: cindypayne.com Connect With Me: Send me a message directly on Instagram: @cindypaynerooted or via email: cindy@cindypaynelpc.com This podcast explores the real, human side of growth — from navigating anxiety, imposter syndrome, and codependency to rediscovering presence, confidence, and authenticity. Through honest conversations about vulnerability, leadership, and letting go, we dive into the balance between purpose and rest, mindfulness and action, boundaries and connection. Together, we unpack the layers of trauma, stress, and exhaustion that keep us from fulfillment, and explore how healing begins when we choose awareness, compassion, and alignment over overwhelm.

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Episoder(152)

E143: Why CPTSD Makes Decision-Making So Hard (And How to Trust Yourself Again)

Do you research every decision into the ground, ask five people for their opinionbefore trusting your own, or feel real physical anxiety when there’s no clear right answer? Inthis episode we’re naming...

31 Aug 33min

E142: : People-Pleasing, Boundaries & Trauma Bonds: Ask Me Anything Part 2 (CPTSD & Attachment Q&A)

Do you find yourself over-explaining every boundary you set, or wondering what's safe to share with your own kids after growing up with a parent who shared too much with you? This episode is for you.T...

24 Aug 32min

E141: CPTSD, Attachment & Dating: Ask Me Anything Part 1 (Trauma-Informed Q&A)

Do you find yourself more anxious the closer you get to someone, instead of less? Or freezing mid-conversation and not knowing why? You're not broken, and this episode is for you.This is part one of a...

17 Aug 33min

E140: Work Stress Isn't the Same for Everyone, Especially for Trauma Survivors, with Luke Richardson

Do you ever feel like everyone else seems to handle work stress just fine, while yours feels like it's sitting on top of something much bigger? If your nervous system already feels like it's working o...

10 Aug 1h 19min

E139: What a Real Apology Actually Looks Like and What to Do When You Get a Fake One

Have you ever received an apology that somehow made you feel worse? Or found yourself apologizing in a way that had more to do with ending the tension than actually taking responsibility? This midweek...

5 Aug 14min

E138: Forgiving vs. Reconciling: Why You Don't Have to Do Both and What to Do When the Apology Never Comes

Forgiving and reconciling are not the same thing. And for many trauma survivors, understanding the difference between them is what finally makes it possible to pursue one without being pressured into ...

3 Aug 22min

E137: Forgiveness in Percentages: Letting Go of the All-or-Nothing Pressure to Forgive

What if forgiveness didn't have to be all or nothing? What if you could release some of the weight without releasing all of the truth? This midweek reframe introduces Harriet Lerner's concept of forgi...

29 Jul 10min

E136: What Forgiveness Is Not: Dismantling the Myths That Keep Trauma Survivors Stuck

Have you ever been told that you need to forgive in order to heal? That holding onto anger is making you sick? That forgiving someone who hurt you is something you owe them, or yourself, or God? This ...

27 Jul 24min