I would start by removing independence from the Body layer. As soon as ALL the children of a layer are independent (+Dizzy in this case), its almost certainly wrong. I should write a blog I guess on this because its a pretty common mistake and it is a bit confusing.
I like to describe it as you have sheets of thin rubber. (Sheet of rubber = mesh in official terminology.) CH puts artwork on the sheets of rubber and stretches them around to do movement with draggers etc. When you have a layer with the independent flag on, it starts a new sheet of rubber. How to keep the sheets joined? They need to overlap somewhere, and you have to attach the child sheet of rubber to the parent by dragging the origin marker of the child over the parent mesh where you want them joined.
If all the children are independent, there is nothing left in the parent to attach to! That is why Body should not be independent. The head, arms and legs need the body artwork to attach to.
(Side track: there are two ways to attach - weld and hinge. Weld is like putting a dob of glue where the two layers are attached. Rotating the parent layer will rotate the child as well. Hinge is like putting a thin pin through. It rotates where the pin is - rotating the parent does not rotate the child.)
So how to attach the layers? You drag the origin marker (say of the leg) and drag it over the torso. The torso should turn green to indicate attachment. In your case however, your "Torso" layer is also independent - so its not in the parent mesh so the only thing left in the Body mesh is the hips. So I suspect you want hips AND Torso layers NOT independent. That artwork will then be part of the Body layer mesh. (If you click on Body, you should see the yellow outline around everything in the mesh.)
Looking at the legs, you have Left Leg inside Left Leg where the child is independent. You can have independent legs if you want them to swivel, but you might find it works better without indpendence for your artwork. If you want it on however, select the independent layer and drag the "origin" marker (the circle with a dottle line) over the hips where the leg joins. It defaults to the center of the blue bounding box of the child artwork otherwise (you can see it there in the middle). Because it does not overlap the parent, it is not attached (and things go flying off).
Should your head be independent too? Maybe. But maybe not! Try it both ways, but make sure the origin marker is dragged over the neck artwork if independent. It can solve problems with the head not independent when it comes to hair behind the head that also needs to go behind the body.
Do you want all those hairs independent? Yes! It means the hair can bounce without the face artwork bouncing with it! That is a good example of independence.
Eyes? I would leave it as is and see how it goes. I usually have the eyes independent - as long as the face background is NOT independent so the eyes have something to attach to. Its normally arms and legs attaching to the body that needs the origins dragged around.
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