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Codependency & Emotional Eating Recovery for Women
Who Are Ready to Stop Abandoning Themselves
Emotional Eating Recovery. Codependency. Women Healing Self-Abandonment
Trauma-Informed Recovery Coaching for Women in Georgia and Worldwide
Hello, My Name is Dr. Nikki LeToya White
Below, I'll give you the tools and resources to...
End Burnout Today
It starts with understanding what burnout truly is.
I've learned the hard way that burnout is only a symptom of a much deeper problem.
If you don’t get to the underlying cause of why you feel overwhelmed, exhausted, insecure, disappointed and responsible for other people’s feelings, thoughts, actions, choices, wants, needs, and well-being, then you’ll never find a lasting solution.
I didn’t always know I was abandoning myself.
As a child, I felt the weight of absence—my mother left me to live with my great-grandmother, my father was not present, and my family struggled to show emotion even while meeting my physical needs. I learned early that love wasn’t about attention, understanding, or presence—it was about surviving.
As an adult living in Atlanta, Georgia, I tried to do it all: being a trucker's wife, a mother of 4, an only child, a counselor, and a support for everyone around me. I thought putting others first was love. I thought it was what kept connection alive.
But slowly, quietly, I disappeared inside my own life.
I waited to watch movies until my husband came home from the road.
I waited to take trips, to invest in myself, to even spend time alone.
I ignored my own dreams to focus on his trucking business, his schedule, his needs.
And I thought I was happy… until I wasn’t. I realized I was not just a trucker wife, I was a LonerWife, married but living apart as a single mom. Later I learned I was struggling with Codependent Personality. For those of you wondering what a codependent personality is. A codependent person plans their entire life around pleasing another person. Where does codependency come from? Codependency originates from one’s childhood and the circumstances one faced like my history of abandonment and childhood emotional neglect trauma. Since codependents tend to put others on a high pedestal and ignore themselves, they have low self-esteem and a complex personality where their own needs come last. Such relationships can be extremely toxic, lucky for me I saw the patterns of me over giving, over functioning, and began to make shifts.
In my life, years of small self-abandonments added up. Panic attacks, anxiety, and feelings of emptiness began to surface. I realized that my nervous system was telling me something I’d ignored for decades: I didn’t know how to live for me. Most importantly, I did not give myself permission to live my own life due to lack of self trust and low self worth. Lack of trust is the root issue of codependent people like me we frequently don’t trust ourselves and don’t trust our feelings or decisions. Similarly, codependents frequently don’t trust others. Emotional Dependency is the second issue: Codependents may look for external happiness and latch onto whoever or whatever they think can provide satisfaction: this often stems from our fear of abandonment or rejection.
Due to my history of abandonment and childhood emotional neglect trauma I had been putting myself last for so long that I didn’t know what it felt like to trust myself, to make my own decisions, to feel safe expanding my life as an individual apart from marriage, so I unconsciously create a codependent one-sided marriage., due to self-abandonment.
If this story feels familiar, you’re not alone. Many women quietly disappear inside their own lives. Their world looks fine from the outside:
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Marriage
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Kids
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Responsibilities
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Stability
But inside, they feel like they’re slowly fading from their own story.
And here’s the truth: you don’t have to destroy your relationships to reclaim yourself. You just have to stop abandoning yourself and give yourself permission to heal codependency and start living your own individual life.
Recovery begins with small acts of self-love and self-loyalty:
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Saying yes to something just for you
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Setting one boundary
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Investing time in your interests
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Speaking honestly about what you need
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Finally, saying yes to transition into the low-sugar lifestyle
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Stop trying control of people and events through helplessness, guilt, coercion, threats, advice-giving, manipulation, or domination to avoid being abandon.
These small steps rebuild self-trust, the foundation of confidence, clarity, and freedom.
Take the First Step Toward Yourself
Download the Gutty Girl Life Audit and start noticing the small ways you’ve been putting yourself last.
Start Your Gutty Girl Life Audit
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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
— C.S. Lewis
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Donate To Our OutReach
100$Every monthSupport Mental Health and Substance AbuseValid for 12 monthsDonate to Outreach One-Time
100$Support Mental Health and Substance AbuseBodyPeace Annual VIP Membership
5,000$Perfect for women in recovery for sugar addiction emotional/binge/stress eating codependencyValid for one year- Nutrition Education, Meal Plan, Recovery Plan, Recipes
- Womens' Health coping with vaginal atrophy
- Nutrition in Recovery: Abdominaplsty Surgery
- Sugar Detox Cleanse and Sugar Detox Workshop
- Emotional Healing Journal and Emotional Eater Journal
- BodyPeace Community
Nutrition and Wellness Consult
230$Nutrition Consultations: One learns how to eat whole, natural, nourishing foods, obtains meal plansValid for 7 days- Nutrition and Wellnesss Education
- Low Sugar Lifestyle
- Overcome Sugar Addiction
- Herbals for Medicine and Cellular Health
Life Audit
150$I can help you take back at least 10/20 hour of your week book a life audit and let's get this doneValid for one month- Life Audit
- You want to invest in learning how to achieve sobriety
- You want to learn how to free 10-20 hours to do the work
- You want systems set in place to achieve sobriety
- You are serious about making changes to your daily life
- You don't make excuses you make goals and action plans
Coping With Vaginal Atrophy Diagnosis
497$1-on-1 Vaginal Atrophy & Sugar Detox Consultation 2:Voxer SessionsValid for 7 days- Receive 2 tailored Personalized Voxer Sessions
- Telehealth Support: Connect with our experienced coaches
- Educational Resources: Access valuable information on coping
- Nutrition Discussion and Lifestyle Review
- Emotional Wellness Support
- We understand the emotional impact of vaginal atrophy
- and provide compassionate guidance and education
- on nervous system and stress management.
VIP DAY
2,500$3 Hour Coaching Sessions A super focused session on a topic of your choice. Great for addressing specific questions for those seeking support around minor diet and lifestyle tweaks and adjustments,.Valid for 7 days- Topic choice may include 1-3 of the concerns below:
- Grocery Store Tour Guide & Meal Planning
- Kitchen Cleanout & Makeover
- Recipes to help with sugar addiction
- Tips to satisfy your food cravings
- Tips to help deal with stress and emotional eating
- Healthy snack and meal ideas to keep on hand
- Stress Management/Environmental Cleanse
- Sugar Addiction, Sugar Cravings, and Emotional Eating
- Imbalance Hormones of Estrogen/Vaginal Atrophy Relief
- Diastasis Recti Repair
- Childhood Trauma- Abandonment and Emotional Neglect
- Financial Stress From Taken on Others' Debt
- Impostor's Syndrome Fear of Success and Being Abandon
She Ready Guidance for Letting Go
15$Every monthHeal Abandonment and Childhood Emotional Neglect and develop a Secure Attachment Style.- Includes "7 Powerful Ways to Forgive Yourself
Clean Eating Quickstart Bundle
147$Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with a health condition or you’re trying to eat healthier to reach a certain goal, clean eating quickstart bundle will likely help.Valid for 3 months- A weekly detox plan
- Recipes that nourish your hormones and gut
- Daily check-ins for accountability within community + email
- Tips to manage cravings rooted in trauma & stress
- Mindful routines to replace sugar with true self-care
- Opportunity to establish habits to make real shifts
Tummy Tuck Recovery Nutrition Guide
10$This guide offers the insights I wish I had pre-surgery—real-life tips, nutrition guidance, and strategies to empower your recovery and nourish your body.- Nutrition in Recovery
The Gutty Girl Recovery Reset
2,500$Private, high-touch support for women who need steadiness now. Calm overwhelm, rebuild supportive routines, reduce emotional eating spirals, and regain clear decision-making.Valid for one month- 4 Private Session (0ne per week)
- Between- Session voice or text support Monday-Friday
- Clear weekly focus so you're never guessing what to work on
- Practical Guidance you can use immediately
Life Audit Live Session
297$One-time Holistic Live Healing Session Your core patterns and blind spots – What’s keeping you stuck – A clear, simple plan to move forward – Suggested daily structure based on your lifestyleValid for 7 days- Personalized wellness coaching
- Sobriety support included
- Self-care ritual guidance
Life Audit Review Email Session
127$One-time holistic healing session Your core patterns and blind spots – What’s keeping you stuck – A clear, simple plan to move forward – Suggested daily structure based on your lifestyleValid for 7 days- Personalized wellness coaching
- Sobriety support included
- Self-care ritual guidance
Voxer Clarity Session
47$Here's how it works: → The $47 deposit will give you access to Dr. White to see if Gutty Girl Lifestyle Academy is right for you (or not!)Valid for 7 days- The $47 can be applied to the GGLA if you join
- You + Dr. White connect via Voxer
- Serious inquiries only, no refunds
- Conversations will be capped at 30 minutes
Email Counseling for Gutty Girl Members
550$Do you feel emotionally flooded/ mentally tired Are you slipping back into emotional eating or sugar habits, but don't know why Seek to transition into a low-sugar lifestyle and need helpValid for one month- Struggle With the Forgiveness Process on Student Level
- Era of Unchurched seek to develop relationship with God
- Seek to transition into a low-sugar lifestyle
- Struggle with codependency and over-giving
- Slipping back into emotional eating or sugar habits
The Regulated Life Mentorship™
35,000$Private 12-month mentorship Limited to 10 women annually High-touch Voxer support Educational recovery curriculum Lifestyle and emotional wellness support Trauma-informed recovery frameworkValid for 12 monthsThe Regulated Life Mentorship™
3,200$Every monthPrivate 12-month mentorship Limited to 10 women annually High-touch Voxer support Educational recovery curriculum Lifestyle and emotional wellness support Trauma-informed recovery frameworkValid for 12 months