Trauma-Informed Path for
Sugar Addiction Recovery
Heal your relationship with sugar by working with your nervous system — not
against it — so recovery becomes steady, sustainable, and rooted in safety.
The Problem Isn't Discipline. It's Dysregulation.
Many people struggling with sugar addiction have already tried to “do everything right.” They’ve followed plans, removed trigger foods, relied on willpower, and promised themselves this time will be different. Yet the cycle continues—often accompanied by shame, self-blame, and confusion.
This work starts from a different understanding. Sugar addiction is not a character flaw or a lack of discipline. For many, it develops as a survival strategy—an adaptive response to stress, overwhelm, or unresolved trauma. When the nervous system does not feel safe, sugar can become a reliable source of relief, regulation, or emotional protection.
A trauma-informed approach acknowledges this reality and works with the body rather than against it. Instead of forcing change through restriction or pressure, we focus on restoring safety, building nervous system capacity, and addressing the root patterns that keep sugar in control. From this foundation, lasting freedom becomes possible.
What Trauma-Informed Sugar Addiction
Recovery Actually Looks Like
Trauma-informed sugar addiction recovery isn’t another diet or detox. It’s an integrative approach
that addresses three essential dimensions most programs overlook or treat in isolation.
When these dimensions work together—when the body is nourished, triggers are understood, and the
nervous system can regulate—sugar loses its grip. Not through force, but because it’s no longer needed.
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Addiction Recovery
You’ll learn the foundational principles of food addiction recovery — including our signature SANE Eating Protocol™, designed to eliminate cravings, support weight loss, boost energy, and balance mood and blood sugar.
We’ll explore best practices like eating enough protein to naturally stimulate GLP-1s (your body’s own appetite-regulating hormones), avoiding common relapse triggers, navigating social situations, and prepping fast, simple meals. You’ll also learn how to recognize the addictive voice, shift out of deprivation thinking, and start feeling genuinely aligned with healthy, whole food choices.
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Somatic Healing
Learning how to settle and soothe your nervous system is a lifelong journey of skill building, practice and understanding. This 6 week course will share new somatic and focusing 'untangling' tools to strengthen your body awareness and tolerance of feelings and sensations allowing you to process cravings, anxiety, and emotional triggers somatically (internally) instead of turning to food (externally). These tools help your body stay present, feel grounded, and safe, thereby deepening your connection to self-energy and its capacity for healing. And it helps you unpolarize / untangle parts that create deep inner blocks to recovery.
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Mind Mastery
Building on Law of Attraction fundamentals, learn how to identify and work with negative thoughts, feelings, limiting beliefs, and switch on positive ones more quickly and consistently. This is a skill anyone can learn. Sneaky, invisible joy-busting thoughts and feelings trigger disordered eating, elevate stress and contribute to weight gain and medical conditions. Through guided meditations, affirmations, and somatic exercises, you’ll learn to leverage the power of the present moment to find small moments of safety. Safety is the treatment. Safety is the medicine. Safety is the way forward out of decades of food struggle. It is time to drop the struggle and learn to let if feel easy.
This work is right for you if you:
- Have tried everything and keep coming back to sugar
- Know there's trauma or stress underneath the pattern
- Are tired of willpower-based approaches that don't last
- Want nervous system support, not just meal planning
- Are ready for deep, paced work—not a quick fix
- Need an approach that's trauma-informed & shame-free
- Are willing to turn toward discomfort and build capacity
- Want sustainable recovery, not temporary abstinence
This work is not right for you if you:
- Want rapid weight loss or 30-day results
- Aren't open to somatic and emotional exploration
- Prefer rigid structure over building self-regulation
- Need someone to control your choices for you
How I Support You in Recovery
Lasting recovery from sugar addiction requires more than willpower or restriction. With simple,
trauma-informed tools, insights, and strategies, abstinence can become peaceful and sustainable.
Abstinent Meal Plan
Finding the right abstinent meal plan is essential for sustainable recovery. Using my signature SANE Eating Protocol™, we create a whole-food approach designed to stabilize blood sugar, reduce cravings, support healthy weight changes (if desired), and improve energy and mood. Your meal plan is personalized, flexible, and responsive—adjusted as your body stabilizes and your capacity grows—so it supports recovery rather than creating stress or deprivation.
Support & Accountability
One-on-one coaching provides focused, personalized support for meaningful change. In our sessions, I offer guidance, practical strategies, encouragement, and steady accountability. Sugar addiction is a deeply ingrained, socially normalized behavior often connected to trauma and patterns of self-neglect. Our work together goes far beyond eliminating sugar—it supports healing at the root and opens the door to a more connected, fulfilling recovery.
The Sugar Dragon™
I am the only sugar coach in the world teaching a technique that comes out of the drug and alcohol recovery field. It is unique, powerful and works like a charm. It teaches you how to observe and ignore the voice of your Sugar Dragon that suggests and justifies sugar consumption. For many, this technique is the missing link in their efforts to get sugar-free and stay sugar-free. I consider it the fast track to sugar freedom. My clients call it their 'ninja mind trick'. It works quickly and it is easy to learn.
Holistic Recovery
Addiction cannot be healed through physical abstinence alone. In fact, abstinence is not the end goal of recovery, it is a tool of recovery. We get abstinent so we can heal not just our bodies, but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Most people get this backwards. They go to therapy hoping to fix themselves so they can become normal eaters. This approach doesn’t work. Most of us focus too much on the physical (we obsess about the food and the weight) and neglect the bigger picture. My approach to recovery inspires a life makeover not just a diet change.
Relapse Prevention
Getting sugar-free is often the first step; staying sugar-free requires ongoing support and skills. Many people relapse not because they lack commitment, but because they haven’t been taught how to recognize early warning signs or prevent common pitfalls. Chronic stress, neglecting self-care, lack of planning, emotional overwhelm, and difficulty tolerating discomfort can all increase vulnerability. Relapse-prevention skills are essential for building lasting freedom from sugar.
Metabolic Insight Tools
Understanding how your body responds to food, stress, sleep, and daily rhythms can be a powerful part of recovery. I will teach you how to use tools such as Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) to gather real-time insight into your unique metabolic patterns. This data helps us stabilize blood sugar, reduce reactive cravings, and clarify what truly supports your energy and mood.
“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence. Not only can trauma be healed, but with appropriate guidance and support, it can be transformative.”
~ Peter A. Levine
Testimonials from Past Clients...
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Your technique, Florence, is life-changing, and I will be forever grateful. It works. Three months later I have lost 29 pounds. I really enjoyed the modules of information and technique of cornering our sugar gremlin/dragon.Barb S. , Past Client
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I really liked all the information on the science of addiction. This helped me to understand I’m not weak and it’s not a character flaw. I have lost over 50 lbs. It has been 8 months since I last tasted sugar. I am sugar free and deeply grateful.Cathy S. , Past Client
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I find that my words don’t do the program justice because it (and you) have changed my life forever. I am beyond grateful and will never be able to fully express how much you have done for me.Pilar L. , Past Client
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I liked the repeated information about sugar’s harm. Although I already knew most of what was in the course, repetition is needed for it to actually sink in, and I took something different from the lesson every time.Asa R. , Past Client
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I have bought many a package that promised to "change my life"... make me rich, make me thinner, make me more self-confident, help me dress better... none of them has ever lived up to the hype. Well, this was one purchase that actually lived up to the promise, and it did change my life. I am no longer a slave to sugar. And I have lost 20 pounds since we last spoke. Thank-you Florence for the life mission you have chosen.Sue G. , Past Client
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If someone had suggested to me that in a matter of weeks, I'd be able to put an end to a sugar addiction, which had lasted pretty much my whole life, I would have, at best, found the possibility extremely unlikely. But then, I hadn't come across anyone like the 'Kick Sugar Coach.' Not only have I truly put an end to sugar - it happened so quickly and effortlessly I could hardly believe it. It seemed impossible. I simply cannot recommend Florence's coaching highly enough.Kaye R. , Past Client
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I can’t begin to tell you what a significant effect you have made on my life because of your work. I am forever grateful for your courage and conviction in sharing your gifts with me and so many others. You have truly found your purpose and deserve nothing but the best in your life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Francine , Past Client
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My profound thanks to you for your course – for its depth and breadth, the tremendous resources, your obvious devotion to this calling, your vulnerability in sharing your story, your vibrant personal coaching, your tone of acceptance and compassion for wherever someone is on their journey, and the overarching perspective that we are spiritual beings on an upward trajectory. This was a perfect course for me -- with the personal coaching --and I am deeply grateful to have taken it! It will “follow me all my days”… 😊 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Kathleen , Past Client
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Give Florence a chance to help you finally get free! For that is what her course is about. “Sugar freedom formula” is totally different to all other approaches. It’s very simple, easy to learn and master, and it’s really life changing! It’s a year ago I attended Florence’s course and I have had no problems with sugar and flour after that. Thank you Florence!!!
Kaija , Past Client
Core Beliefs That Guide
My Coaching Practice
Here is what I believe about recovery, healing, and what’s possible:
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Recovery gets traction when it’s grounded in safety, not shame.
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Chronic relapse is a dysregulated nervous system issue
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Trauma-informed recovery approaches do not demand perfection
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Somatic practices help you become present and feel safe in your body.
- Somatic practices reduce food chatter and obsession
- Fear and overwhelm are the main drivers of relapse (post-withdrawal)
- Feeling safe is the antidote to addiction.
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Befriending your body is non-negotiable.
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Learning how to process emotions is the foundation of lasting food freedom
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Elevated emotions fuel recovery
- Forcing abstinence rarely works - becoming internally aligned is way better!
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Daily (or close to daily) accountability is essential and life-changing
- Sugar addiction is real. You are not crazy. You are not hopeless. You just need to address the missing link (stress/trauma/somatics) and get the professional help you need.
These are the essentials of sustainable recovery.
It is time to stop struggling. Get the professional help you need.
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DISCLAIMER: The contents of this website are for informational and inspirational purposes only. They are not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It is your responsibility to work with a health care practitioner familiar with your specific medical needs. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider before, during and after making lifestyle changes. They can affect your prescriptions and symptoms. We do not advocate any particular way of eating beyond the importance of eliminating ultra-processed foods. You decide which whole-food meal plan works for you. We also do not insist on abstinence and recognize the value of a harm-reduction approach especially when trauma is in play.
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