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Spiced Life Conversation
Art Wellness Studio and Botanica

Codependency and Emotional Eating Recovery
for Women Under Stress

Stop Abandoning Yourself. Feel Safe Expanding Your Life.

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.
Burnout is only a symptom of a much deeper problem.
If you don’t get to the underlying cause of why you feel overwhelmed
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, I tried to do it all: being a trucker's wife, a mother of 4, an only child, a counselor, 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.

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.

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.

If this story feels familiar, you’re not alone. Many women quietly disappear inside their own lives. Their world looks fine from the outside: