E85: Midweek Reframe: Tiny Micro-Practices That Help You Reconnect With Your Body While Living With CPTSD

Do you struggle to feel at home in your own body after trauma? Are tension, restlessness, or disconnection making it hard to fully inhabit your life?

If you’ve experienced complex PTSD or trauma, your nervous system may be stuck in survival mode—keeping you from noticing your body, breathing freely, or feeling safe in simple moments. In this episode of Reclaiming Me – Midweek Reframe, trauma specialist Cindy Payne shares tiny, safe embodiment micro-practices designed to help you reconnect with your body without pressure, guilt, or perfectionism. Even just a few minutes a day can send a powerful message to your nervous system: you belong in your body.

By listening to this episode, you’ll learn how to:

1. Tune into your breath and notice tension without judgment, helping your nervous system relax.
2. Explore subtle, intentional movements that release stored stress and create a sense of safety.

Reclaim agency and presence in your body, one small practice at a time, supporting trauma healing and CPTSD recovery.

1. Press play now to try two simple, safe micro-practices that help you reconnect with your body, calm your nervous system, and reclaim your sense of home within yourself.

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• Release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and outdated identities that keep you playing small.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

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 Cindy

Ready for deeper support? Explore therapy, coaching, or book a consultation here: cindypayne.com

Connect With Me

Send me a message directly on Instagram: @cindypaynerooted or via email: cindy@cindypaynelpc.com