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 • Release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and outdated identities that keep you playing small.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)

E127: Your Body Is Communicating, Not Failing: A Reframe for Trauma Survivors

Tension. Racing heart. A wave of dread that comes out of nowhere. For most trauma survivors, the automatic response is: something is wrong with me. What if that story is exactly what's keeping you stu...

24 Jun 10min

E126: When Your Body Feels Like the Enemy: Reconnecting With Physical Sensations After Trauma

There was a season when Cindy was genuinely afraid of her own body. Not abstractly — specifically. A sensation would arise and her nervous system would immediately translate it as: something is very w...

22 Jun 39min

E125: The Return Is the Practice: How to Stop Shaming Yourself for Drifting from the Middle Path

You noticed you drifted — again. And before you could find your footing, the voice showed up: of course I'm here again. I can't get this right. What if that self-criticism is itself the extreme you're...

17 Jun 13min

E124: The Middle Path: How Trauma Survivors Can Heal Without Pushing Through or Falling Apart

If you've been living with complex trauma, you probably know these two extremes all too well — white-knuckling your way through hard seasons in hyperdrive, or sinking so deep into the emotion that get...

15 Jun 31min

E123: How to Make Therapy Actually Stick: The Bridge Most People Miss

If therapy hasn't felt like it's working — or hasn't stuck the way you hoped — it might not be the therapy. It might be the bridge.In this Midweek Reframe, therapist and CPTSD survivor Cindy Payne fol...

10 Jun 15min

E122: Why Do We Quit Therapy? Trauma, Attachment & People Pleasing Unpacked

Have you ever walked into a therapy room ready to do the work — only to find yourself people pleasing your way through every session? Or worse, quitting right when things start getting real? If trauma...

8 Jun 51min

E121: Good Boundaries, Not Perfect Boundaries: A CPTSD Recovery Conversation

Have you ever tried to set a boundary… only to spend the next several hours replaying the conversation in your head?Maybe your voice shook. Maybe you stumbled over your words. Maybe the guilt and sham...

3 Jun 10min

E120: Rigid or Porous? How Complex Trauma Shapes Your Boundaries

Last week, we explored why complex trauma survivors struggle with boundaries. But understanding the emotional roots of people pleasing and self-abandonment is only the first step.What happens when you...

1 Jun 26min