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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
Overcoming High-Functioning Anxiety & Burnout:
A Blueprint for the Chronically Over-Giver
You do not need another generic meal plan or gentle advice; you need a life-altering intervention.
If you are a high-achieving woman who is tired of playing nice, abandoning your own needs, and using food to numb the quiet rage of codependency, it is time to change your entire reality.
The Hidden Reality of People-Pleaser Burnout
Hello, I'm Dr. Nikki LeToya White. I provide the exact tools and resources to help women end burnout today by addressing its true root cause.
Burnout is only a surface symptom of a much deeper problem. If you do not uncover why you feel overwhelmed, exhausted, insecure, and entirely responsible for other people’s feelings, actions, and well-being, you will never find a lasting solution.
From Childhood Emotional Neglect to the "LonerWife" Trap
For decades, I didn't realize I was abandoning myself. My path toward high-functioning anxiety began in childhood:
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The Weight of Absence: My mother left me to live with my great-grandmother, and my father was entirely absent.
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Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): My family met my physical needs but struggled to show any emotion or presence.
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The Survival Trap: I learned early that love wasn't about attention or understanding—it was simply about surviving.
As an adult living in Atlanta, Georgia, I tried to do it all. I was a trucker's wife, a mother of four, an only child, a counselor, and a constant support system for everyone else. I thought putting others first was love. In reality, it was my abandonment wound and CEN trauma running the show.
Slowly and quietly, I disappeared inside my own life. I waited to watch movies until my husband came home from the road. I postponed trips, delayed investing in myself, and refused to spend time alone. I lived in a quiet house of four kids, eating sugar in the kitchen at midnight, waiting for a phone call from a highway three states away—married, but completely alone.
I was a "LonerWife," married but living apart as a single mom.
Understanding Codependency and Emotional Dependency
Through my own recovery, I realized I was struggling with a codependent personality.
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What is Codependency? A codependent person plans their entire life around pleasing another person, placing others on a pedestal while completely ignoring themselves.
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Where Does It Come From? Codependency originates from childhood emotional neglect trauma and early abandonment.
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The High-Functioning Anxiety Mask: Because codependents frequently lack self-trust, they become high-functioning anxiety women to control their environment and stay safe.
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Emotional Dependency: Out of a severe fear of rejection, codependents look for external happiness, latching onto whoever or whatever they think can provide satisfaction.
Due to my history, I unconsciously created a one-sided, codependent marriage. I didn't know what it felt like to trust my own decisions or feel safe expanding my life as an individual.
Your World Looks Fine on the Outside, But You Are Fading
If this story feels familiar, you are not alone. Millions of high-functioning women quietly disappear inside their daily routines. From the outside, your life looks perfect:
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Marriage
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Kids
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Responsibilities
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Stability
But inside, you are slowly fading from your own story.
Here is the truth: You do not have to destroy your relationships to reclaim yourself. You just have to stop abandoning your own identity, give yourself permission to heal, and start living your own individual life.
The Path to Codependency Recovery
True healing and nervous system regulation begin with small, non-negotiable acts of self-love and self-loyalty:
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Saying Yes to You: Dedicate time or resources to something that is exclusively for your own fulfillment.
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Setting Boundaries: Establish one firm boundary and stop sending desperate energy to be chosen by others.
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Speaking Honestly: Clearly voice what you need, like, dislike, and will no longer tolerate.
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Breaking the Sugar Cycle: Transition into a low-sugar lifestyle. Sugar isn't your true problem; it is your substitute for sweetness. When you spend 100% of your energy sweetness-hunting for everyone else, your brain demands a quick chemical hit of joy to survive the depletion. We don't fix the food until we fix the self-abandonment.
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Releasing Control: Stop trying to manage people and events through helplessness, guilt, coercion, advice-giving, or manipulation to avoid rejection.
Take the First Step Toward Yourself Today
These small steps rebuild self-trust—the absolute foundation of confidence, clarity, and personal freedom. Stop putting yourself last and start reclaiming your life right now.
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Download the Gutty Girl Life Audit for High-Functioning Anxiety People Pleasers: Start noticing the exact ways you have been abandoning your own needs.
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Access Your Free 5-Day Detox Download: Begin healing your body and breaking the chemical dependency on food and sugar.
If your goal is to build healthy relationships, treat yourself with respect, develop real coping skills, build/strengthen your self-worth, and create routines that keep you grounded, then I’m fully prepared to support you. My prices are premium because the transformation is premium — and because I only work with women who are ready to show up for themselves and not waste their own time or mine.
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"Are You Feeling Stuck In Life"
Do you feel stuck in an unhealthy relationship? Do you feel guilty when you say "no" or set boundaries? Do you escape stress with food? Does your life center around what everyone else wants and needs rather than what you need? Do you struggle with lingering abandonment and childhood emotional neglect wounds from the past? These are signs of codependent behavior.
Hello, I'm Dr. Nikki LeToya White, a recovered codependent people pleaser, emotional eater, and abandonment and childhood emotional neglect survivor turned Licensed Board Certified Trauma Informed Nutritionist, Herbalist, Recovery Coach, Skincare and Wellness Consultant for Avon, course creator, Mobile Notary and Loan Signing Agent, and visionary behind the GuttyGirl Lifestyle a platform with tools, resources, and guides to assist women and real estate professional who struggle with codependency and emotional eating caused by abandonment and childhood emotional neglect trauma.
Start Your Healing Journey
Next Mentorship
January 1, 2027-December 31, 2027
Applications Open Now
Registration Open
January 1st , 2026 -Closed December 1st, 2026
Private Recovery Sessions Begin January 1st 2027
We're reopening the doors soon!
Get your name on the waitlist to be the first to hear the announcement.
Until then see where you are on the growth scale so you can stop feeling lost and alone. And start planning for your journey of choosing yourself.
Starting an emotional healing journey is not one-size-fits-all.
The Four Levels of Healing: Life Detox Growth Scale Framework identifies where you fall on one of four levels — from Student to Master— and lays out
The specific action steps you need to take to grow from one level to the next as you recover from codependent thinking and behavior, and desire to escape with food in times of stress.
What level are you at? And what does that mean for you as you recover from codependency, emotional eating, and self-abandonment, learn how to give yourself love and self-growth on your emotional healing journey?

Sign up to reserve your spot in the next available session and get the Four Levels of Healing: Life Detox Cleanse Growth Scale for FREE!
The Regulated Life Mentorship™
A Private Year of Emotional Recovery, Nervous System Regulation, Self-Trust, and Life Reconstruction With Dr. Nikki LeToya White
For the woman who is tired of surviving and ready to rebuild her life from a regulated, emotionally grounded place.
This is not traditional coaching.
This is a private, high-touch emotional wellness and self-reconstruction mentorship designed for women ready to break lifelong patterns of self-abandonment, emotional exhaustion, codependency, survival-mode living, emotional eating, nervous system dysregulation, and identity loss.
Inside this year-long experience, we focus on helping you rebuild the relationship with:
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your body
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your emotions
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your routines
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your boundaries
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your nervous system
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your self-trust
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your lifestyle
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your identity
through the framework of The Gutty Girl Self-Abandonment Recovery Path™.
This mentorship is intentionally intimate and limited to only 10 women per year to protect the depth, care, structure, and personalized support this work requires.
THIS MENTORSHIP IS FOR WOMEN WHO:
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are emotionally exhausted from constantly holding everything together
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feel disconnected from themselves after years of survival mode
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struggle with emotional eating, sugar dependency, or self-soothing behaviors
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are navigating body changes, hormonal shifts, intimacy struggles, or nervous system burnout
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are ready to stop people-pleasing and start living more honestly
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want structured emotional recovery support without becoming dependent on coaching
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desire sustainable routines, regulation, and emotional stability
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are ready to become the leader of their own life
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
This is not surface-level mindset work.
This is structured emotional recovery and lifestyle reconstruction rooted in:
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trauma-informed recovery education
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nervous system regulation
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emotional wellness
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self-abandonment recovery
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lifestyle architecture
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body reconnection
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identity rebuilding
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sustainable self-care systems
The goal is not perfection.
The goal is regulation, self-trust, emotional safety, and sustainable transformation.
INSIDE THE REGULATED LIFE MENTORSHIP™
You will move through:
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The Four Levels of Healing
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The Daily Five Practices
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The SAFE Method
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The Five-S Response
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The Trauma-Whisper Protocol
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BodyPeace nervous system and body reconnection practices
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emotional regulation and recovery tools
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lifestyle restructuring and recovery architecture
Support includes:
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private Voxer support
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written reflections and reviews
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emotional wellness guidance
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personalized recovery support
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educational resources and PDFs
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journal prompts and emotional processing tools
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meal and low-sugar lifestyle support ideas
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nervous system regulation practices
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audio reflections and teachings
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private implementation guidance
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recovery pattern reviews and life audit support
This mentorship is designed to support deep implementation in real life — not endless consumption of information.
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
Over time, women often begin to:
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feel emotionally safer in their body
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stop living in constant survival mode
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rebuild trust with themselves
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regulate emotional eating patterns
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develop healthier relationship dynamics
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strengthen emotional boundaries
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reconnect with identity and purpose
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create stable self-care routines
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feel more grounded, calm, and emotionally present
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approach life with greater clarity and self-leadership
THE HEART OF THIS WORK
The Regulated Life is about no longer abandoning yourself to survive.
It is about learning how to:
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stay with yourself
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care for yourself consistently
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regulate through difficult moments
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rebuild from the inside out
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create a life that feels emotionally safe to live in
MENTORSHIP DETAILS
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Private 12-month mentorship
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Limited to 10 women annually
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High-touch Voxer support
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Educational recovery curriculum
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Personalized implementation guidance
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Lifestyle and emotional wellness support
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Trauma-informed recovery framework
INVESTMENT
$35,000 USD/ Paid in Full
or
$3,200 USD/ Monthly
Applications are reviewed carefully to ensure alignment, readiness, and emotional capacity for this level of work.
Because this is not about consuming more information.
It is about becoming the woman who no longer abandons herself.
Welcome to the Application for The Regulated Life Mentorship™
A Private Year of Emotional Recovery, Nervous System Regulation, Self-Trust, and Life Reconstruction With Dr. Nikki LeToya White
Mentorship Term:
January 1, 2027 – December 31, 2027
Thank you for your interest in The Regulated Life Mentorship™.
This mentorship is a private, high-touch emotional wellness and self-reconstruction experience designed for women who are serious about healing self-abandonment patterns, rebuilding emotional safety, regulating their nervous system, and creating a more grounded, sustainable life.
This is not surface-level coaching.
This is deep implementation work.
Because of the intimate nature of this experience, only 10 women will be accepted for the 2027 mentorship cycle.
This application is designed to help determine:
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if this mentorship is aligned with your current season of life
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if the structure and depth of this work are supportive for your needs
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if the mentor/mentee relationship is an appropriate fit
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if you are emotionally, mentally, financially, and energetically prepared for this level of commitment
Please read each section carefully and answer every question honestly and thoughtfully.
You are encouraged to complete your responses in a separate Word document first so you can take your time reflecting before submitting your final application.
This mentorship is intentionally designed for women who are ready to take ownership of their healing, emotional growth, lifestyle reconstruction, and recovery process.
We are not looking for perfection.
We are looking for readiness, honesty, emotional responsibility, and willingness to do the work.
If selected, you will receive:
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acceptance notification
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mentorship agreement
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payment and enrollment details
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onboarding instructions
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mentorship preparation resources
All mentorship questions will be answered after applications have been reviewed.
With care,
Dr. Nikki LeToya White
Trauma-Informed Nutritionist
Recovery Education Consultant
Emotional Wellness Curriculum Developer
Founder of The Gutty Girl Self-Abandonment Recovery Path™
COMMUNITY + MENTORSHIP AGREEMENTS
The following agreements are designed to create emotional safety, personal accountability, respect, structure, and integrity within The Regulated Life Mentorship™ experience.
Please review carefully before applying.
1. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
I understand that this mentorship is designed to support emotional wellness, nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and lifestyle reconstruction. I accept full responsibility for my personal choices, behaviors, healing process, emotional responses, and wellbeing throughout the mentorship.
2. SELF-REFLECTION OVER OTHER-FOCUS
I agree to remain focused on my own healing, growth, behaviors, emotional patterns, and recovery work rather than becoming preoccupied with the actions, reactions, or progress of others.
3. EMOTIONAL DISCOMFORT IS PART OF THE PROCESS
I understand that emotional recovery work may bring up grief, resistance, shame, anger, sadness, fear, vulnerability, emotional discomfort, or difficult memories. I agree to approach these moments with honesty, accountability, and willingness to process rather than avoid.
4. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WHEN NECESSARY
I understand that this mentorship is educational and supportive in nature and is not a replacement for medical care, psychiatric care, crisis support, substance abuse treatment, or licensed therapy services when clinically necessary. I agree to seek appropriate outside support and healthcare providers if additional care is needed.
5. CONFIDENTIALITY
I agree to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of all participants. I will not share personal stories, screenshots, recordings, messages, or experiences from other members outside of the mentorship space.
6. RESPECTFUL COMMUNICATION
I agree to communicate respectfully with Dr. White, team members, and participants at all times. I understand that emotional intensity is not permission for cruelty, manipulation, hostility, harassment, bullying, or disruptive behavior.
7. SOBRIETY + PRESENCE
I agree not to participate in mentorship sessions, Voxer communication, calls, or community interactions while under the influence of alcohol or non-prescribed substances that impair my ability to engage responsibly and safely.
8. DIVERSITY + INCLUSION
I agree to respect individuals of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, cultures, orientations, and beliefs. The mentorship is committed to maintaining a respectful and emotionally safe environment for all participants.
9. PARTICIPATION + COMMITMENT
I understand that this mentorship is a high-level commitment that requires emotional presence, engagement, consistency, and personal responsibility.
I agree to:
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prioritize participation
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respond to communication in a timely manner
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remain engaged throughout the mentorship process
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complete assigned reflections and implementation work to the best of my ability
10. PROGRAM STRUCTURE + PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES
I understand that Dr. White reserves the right to maintain professional boundaries and mentorship integrity throughout the program.
I understand that participation may be revoked if:
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my needs fall outside the scope of the mentorship
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I become repeatedly disruptive, hostile, unsafe, or disrespectful
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I violate confidentiality agreements
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I consistently refuse accountability for my behavior
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my participation negatively impacts the emotional safety of the mentorship environment
If participation is revoked due to violation of agreements, refunds will not be issued.
11. FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
I understand that by accepting enrollment into The Regulated Life Mentorship™, I am committing to the full mentorship investment and payment agreement.
Due to the limited number of mentorship spaces available each year, all payments are non-refundable except in approved emergency circumstances determined at the discretion of Dr. White and her team.
In certain major life situations, including serious illness, death of an immediate family member, or severe life disruption, participants may request consideration for transfer into a future mentorship cycle.
12. SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY
This mentorship is designed for women who are genuinely ready to engage in deep emotional recovery, self-reconstruction, nervous system regulation, and lifestyle transformation work.
Please apply only if you are prepared to:
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show up honestly
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participate consistently
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take responsibility for your healing
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engage the work with maturity and integrity
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invest in long-term transformation rather than quick fixes
This is sacred work.
Please enter it with care, honesty, and intention.

Best Value
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 framework
Valid for 12 months

Best Value
The Regulated Life Mentorship™
3,200
Every month
Private 12-month mentorship
Limited to 10 women annually
High-touch Voxer support
Educational recovery curriculum
Lifestyle and emotional wellness support
Trauma-informed recovery framework
Valid for 12 months






