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Candace Plattor, M.A.Registered Clinical Counsellor
Candace Plattor, M.A.
Registered Clinical Counsellor
If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.

Loving yourself

February 5, 2021 by Candace Plattor

From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

Ah, Valentine's Day, the fantasy-filled holiday that comes right after we've managed to get ourselves through another year of Christmas and New Year's Eve! Have you ever wondered whose bright idea it was to have those three holidays in a row? For many people, the 3-month period of December through February can be the most difficult and depressing time of the year, and this is especially true for those whose significant relationships are problematic. For people with addictive behaviours, as well … [Read more...] about From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

Filed Under: Self-care Tagged With: Addiction in the family, Healthy self-care, loving an addict, Loving yourself, Valentine's Day

February 10, 2020 by Candace Plattor

From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

Ah, Valentine's Day, the fantasy-filled holiday that comes right after we've managed to get ourselves through another year of Christmas and New Year's Eve! Have you ever wondered whose bright idea it was to have those three holidays in a row? For many people, the 3-month period of December through February can be the most difficult and depressing time of the year, and this is especially true for those whose significant relationships are problematic. For people with addictive behaviours, as well … [Read more...] about From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

Filed Under: Self-care Tagged With: Addiction in the family, Healthy self-care, loving an addict, Loving yourself, Valentine's Day

February 11, 2019 by Candace Plattor

From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

Ah, Valentine's Day, the fantasy-filled holiday that comes right after we've managed to get ourselves through another year of Christmas and New Year's Eve! Have you ever wondered whose bright idea it was to have those three holidays in a row? For many people, the 3-month period of December through February can be the most difficult and depressing time of the year, and this is especially true for those whose significant relationships are problematic. For people with addictive behaviours, as … [Read more...] about From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

Filed Under: Healthy self-care, Loving yourself, Self-Respect Tagged With: Addiction in the family, Healthy self-care, loving an addict, Loving yourself, self-respect

August 2, 2016 by Candace Plattor

Are You Trying to Solve the Unsolvable? The Best Way to Know the Difference

Have you been busy trying to change what you cannot change?Are you doing your best to control what you simply can’t control?If so, please know—you’re not alone!It’s strange but true—a great many people all over the world are continually trying to change something that is not in the realm of things they can change. When it’s drastic enough, we see it on the news—generally as some kind of violence toward somebody else. For most of us, however, this tendency goes relatively unnoticed—except perhaps … [Read more...] about Are You Trying to Solve the Unsolvable? The Best Way to Know the Difference

Filed Under: Loving an addict Tagged With: Addiction, Addiction and Codependency, Addiction in the family, Healthy self-care, loving an addict, Loving yourself, serenity prayer

May 25, 2016 by Candace Plattor

Holistic Self-Care When Loving an Addict

Recently, while working with a client (I’ll call her Jane) who is the loved one of an addict, she made a significant discovery. We were talking about the importance of Jane’s self-care, an important subject I frequently discuss with all of my clients. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, “I don’t feel like I know how to take care of myself—I don’t know what I want or how to ask for it.”“I don’t know how to set healthier boundaries because I don’t even know what those boundaries … [Read more...] about Holistic Self-Care When Loving an Addict

Filed Under: Healthy self-care, Loving yourself Tagged With: Addiction, Addiction in the family, Healthy self-care, Holistic self-care, loving an addict, Loving yourself, Setting boundaries with addicted loved ones

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