Are you feeling exasperated and helpless about your family member’s addiction?

Are you at your wit’s end, having tried
everything you can think of to make them stop?

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction If someone you love is engaging in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, Internet addiction, sex addiction, compulsive overspending, or relationship addiction, you are undoubtedly experiencing unpredictability in your relationship.

Some of the most common emotions you will experience include:

Guilt and shame
Anger and anxiety
Confusion and powerlessness

Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the key to changing this reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one’s addiction to your own self-care.

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction presents a dramatically fresh approach to help you get off the roller-coaster chaos of addiction, maintain your own sanity and serenity, and live your best life.

Review from Amazon.com's web site:

"Engaging, grounded and straight forward help for people who love an addict.

Candace Plattor has written a winner. Who hasn't had, or doesn't have, experience with an addict or a co-dependent person in their life? Practically no one. This book is not for everyone who needs help, but this is a book for everyone who wants help. The Top 10 Survival Tips are grounded in 12 Step recovery principles;they are solid, and written about in a very accessible and engaging way.

Addiction is a family disease and the entire family gets sick. When one person in the family begins to recover, the whole family can begin to heal. I work with addicts in recovery every day. Helping people see how their 'loving' family sabotages recovery principles is a painful exercise. The direct, no-nonsense approach taken in this book helps the family member of the addict face their own unconscious and covert sabotage behaviour head on. I strongly recommend this book for any one who is ready to take responsibility for their own life, regardless of whether the addict in their life is sober. Happiness is an inside job!"

Jane Derry - Addiction Specialist

Jane Derry is General Manager and Spiritual Counsellor at A Home Away Retreat in Kelowna, B.C.. A Home Away offers a unique holistic approach to addiction rehab in a non-institutional setting.

“In this book, Candace Plattor outlines some of the major causes for ill health and unhappiness today—addictions. She especially focuses on how to help yourself if you are the loved one of an addict. Bravo to Candace, whose personal experience and brilliant counseling strategies are turning people’s lives around!”

Caroline Sutherland, Author of The Body Knows and The Body Knows… How to Stay Young

Purchase your copy of Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction now by clicking on one of the links below:

CANDACE PLATTOR, M.A., REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELOR, is a therapist in private practice, specializing in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, Internet addiction, compulsive overspending, and relationship addiction.

Candace offers individual, couple, and family counseling in her Vancouver, British Columbia office and by telephone worldwide.

Are you feeling exasperated and helpless about your family member’s addiction?

Are you at your wit’s end, having tried everything you can think of to make them stop?

Are you at your wit’s end, having tried
everything you can think of to make them stop?