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by Cindy Payne

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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 • Release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and outdated identities that keep you playing small.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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June 29, 2026

E128: The Emotions Nobody Admits To: Understanding Envy and Jealousy Through a Trauma Lens

Envy. Jealousy. Two emotions most of us were taught to be deeply ashamed of — to push down, deny, or dress up as something more acceptable. But what if these emotions aren't evidence of your worst self? What if they're actually some of the most honest signals your inner life is sending you?In this episode, Cindy gets personal about the moments in her own life where envy and jealousy have shown up uninvited — watching someone in her field seem to have it all figured out, longing for the ease others seemed to move through life with, and the particular ache of friendship jealousy that almost nobody talks about. Drawing from Brené Brown's precise and compassionate work in Atlas of the Heart, and weaving in attachment theory and the CPTSD lens, Cindy unpacks why these emotions hit differently for trauma survivors — and why the shame we pile on top of them is often more damaging than the emotions themselves.You'll learn:<ul><li>The crucial difference between envy and jealousy — and why it matters more than you think</li><li>Why CPTSD survivors are especially vulnerable to shame spirals around both emotions</li><li>How attachment wounds shape the way jealousy shows up in our closest relationships</li><li>What your envy is actually pointing to — and how to use it as information rather than evidence of your worst qualities</li></ul> This episode is not about becoming someone who never feels envy or jealousy. It is about learning to sit with these emotions long enough to hear what they are actually saying — because what you envy almost always reveals something true and important about what you most deeply long for. And that longing deserves your curiosity, not your shame.🎙️ Listen now — and notice what comes up in your own body as you do📖 Pick up Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart — the chapters on envy and jealousy are worth reading alongside this episode📩 Submit your question for the upcoming Ask Me Anything: CPTSD episode — DM @cindypaynerooted or email via show notes🔔 Catch the midweek reframe this week for one question that will change how you look at what you envyKeywords: trauma, CPTSD, envy, jealousy, people pleasing, attachment, shame, Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart, nervous system, complex trauma recoveryConnect with Cindy:Ready for deeper support? Take the free people-pleasing quiz, explore therapy or book a consultation here:<a href="http://cindypayne.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> cindypayne.c</a>omInstagram: @cindypaynerootedemail: cindy@cindypaynelpc.comThis podcast supports women healing trauma, attachment wounds, codependency, anxiety, perfectionism, people pleasing, overthinking, and rebuilding self-worth, self-trust, boundaries, and confidence through trauma-informed guidance.Through honest, grounded conversations, it explores the real human experience of growth and leadership, the tension between purpose and rest, boundaries and connection, and how choosing awareness and compassion creates a more aligned and authentic life.

June 24, 2026

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 stuck?In this midweek reframe, Cindy takes the hardest moment from Monday's full episode — the belief that her body was broken — and offers one simple, transformative reframe: your body is communicating, not failing. She breaks down what is actually happening when sensation spikes, why trauma survivors are wired to read the body as threat, and how one small mindfulness practice can begin to shift the relationship from fear to curiosity.You don't have to love the panic attack. You don't have to be grateful for the tension. You just have to be willing to stay in the room with it a moment longer than you normally would — and ask what it's trying to tell you. That one question changes everything.🎙️ Go back and listen to Monday's full episode first if you haven't — this reframe lands even deeper after you do💬 Submit your CPTSD question for the upcoming Ask Me Anything — DM @cindypaynerooted or email via show notes🔔 Carry this into your week: Where have I been treating sensation as evidence that something is wrong with me — and what would it look like to get just a little more curious instead?Keywords: trauma, CPTSD, people pleasing, attachment, body sensations, panic attacks, mindfulness, somatic healing, nervous system regulationConnect with Cindy:Ready for deeper support? Take the free people-pleasing quiz, explore therapy or book a consultation here:<a href="http://cindypayne.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> cindypayne.c</a>omInstagram: @cindypaynerootedemail: cindy@cindypaynelpc.comThis podcast supports women healing trauma, attachment wounds, codependency, anxiety, perfectionism, people pleasing, overthinking, and rebuilding self-worth, self-trust, boundaries, and confidence through trauma-informed guidance.Through honest, grounded conversations, it explores the real human experience of growth and leadership, the tension between purpose and rest, boundaries and connection, and how choosing awareness and compassion creates a more aligned and authentic life.

June 22, 2026

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 wrong. Add postpartum depression, panic attacks, and intrusive fears about her son's safety, and she found herself convinced that her body was turning on her. She carried that story in shame and silence for years.In this episode, Cindy shares one of the most personal stories she has ever told — her postpartum experience with depression, anxiety, and panic — and connects it to what we now understand about trauma, the nervous system, and why the body so often becomes a source of fear rather than information for CPTSD survivors. Drawing from Peter Levine's somatic experiencing work, Bessel van der Kolk's research, and her own long journey back to her body through mindfulness and meditation, this episode is for anyone who has ever felt betrayed by their own physical experience.You'll learn:<ul><li>Why trauma stores itself in the body and how CPTSD primes the nervous system to misread sensation as threat</li><li>What was actually happening during postpartum — hormonally, neurologically, and through a trauma lens</li><li>How mindfulness and meditation became the bridge back to a body Cindy had spent years fearing</li><li>Practical somatic tools to begin reconnecting — gently, slowly, on your own terms</li></ul> This is not a story about having it figured out. It is a story about shame, fear, and what became possible when Cindy finally stopped running from her own body and got curious instead. If you have ever believed something was fundamentally wrong with you because of what you felt physically, this episode is for you.🎙️ Listen now — and if this one lands, share it with someone who needs to hear it📩 Submit your question for the upcoming Ask Me Anything: CPTSD episode — DM @cindypaynerooted or email via show notes🔔 Catch the midweek reframe this week for one practical question and a single tool to carry into your weekKeywords: trauma, CPTSD, people pleasing, attachment, postpartum depression, panic attacks, somatic healing, nervous system, body-based trauma, mindfulness, Peter Levine, Bessel van der KolkConnect with Cindy:Ready for deeper support? Take the free people-pleasing quiz, explore therapy or book a consultation here:<a href="http://cindypayne.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> cindypayne.c</a>omInstagram: @cindypaynerootedemail: cindy@cindypaynelpc.comThis podcast supports women healing trauma, attachment wounds, codependency, anxiety, perfectionism, people pleasing, overthinking, and rebuilding self-worth, self-trust, boundaries, and confidence through trauma-informed guidance.Through honest, grounded conversations, it explores the real human experience of growth and leadership, the tension between purpose and rest, boundaries and connection, and how choosing awareness and compassion creates a more aligned and authentic life.

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What is Unmasking ?: 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.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 6 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Information about guest appearances is not available.

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