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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.

What addicts really need

November 18, 2021 by Candace Plattor

Am I Helping or Enabling? The Wisdom to Know the Difference

For those of you who have been following me for a while, you know that I love the Serenity Prayer. I’m not a fan of the way it’s recited at the end of every 12-Step meeting, in a quick, sing-song kind of way. In fact, even as I said it that way with everybody else for the first 10 years of my own recovery from many addictive behaviours, I began to feel curious about this Prayer and what it really meant. As I dug deeper, I discovered it to be one of the simplest, most profound pieces of writing I … [Read more...] about Am I Helping or Enabling? The Wisdom to Know the Difference

Filed Under: Helping vs. Enabling Tagged With: Addiction in the family, Addiction recovery, Helping vs. Enabling, loving an addict, What addicts really need

July 20, 2015 by Candace Plattor

Addiction and Recovery: What Do Addicts REALLY Need?

Whenever I hear clients repeating themselves in our therapy sessions, I take notice.Their repetition alerts me that something is really important to them. Sometimes they’ll tell me the same story more than once, other times they will ask the same questions a few times. In other cases, they will repeat words—especially when they are striving to let me know how they feel.So when I began receiving emails this past week from both colleagues and clients containing the same link to the same TED talk … [Read more...] about Addiction and Recovery: What Do Addicts REALLY Need?

Filed Under: Helping vs. Enabling Tagged With: Addiction and recovery, Addiction in the family, Choice point to stop addiction, Helping vs. Enabling, Johann Hari, Recovery from addiction, Setting boundaries with addicted loved ones, TED talk, What addicts really need

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