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The Difference Between Helping & Enabling: Learn How to Help the Addict You Love Come out of Addiction – Forever
There are two aspects I know to be true when it comes to recovery from #1 – Enabling and helping are very different actions, and #2 – If nothing changes, nothing changes.
When we continue to enable an addict, we basically assist them to remain in active addiction. I don’t see that as a loving act and if we are enabling, we need to learn how to stop doing that. When we help an addict, we tell them the truth and change our own behaviors, which gives them a fighting chance of recovery.
We need to love our addicts enough to stop supporting them in their addiction and instead to only support recovery.
We need to stop loving our addicts to death – and start loving them to life.
We need to learn the difference between enabling and helping.
When we continue to enable an addict, we basically assist them to remain in active addiction. I don’t see that as a loving act and if we are enabling, we need to learn how to stop doing that. When we help an addict, we tell them the truth and change our own behaviors, which gives them a fighting chance of recovery.
We need to love our addicts enough to stop supporting them in their addiction and instead to only support recovery.
We need to stop loving our addicts to death – and start loving them to life.
We need to learn the difference between enabling and helping.
55 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 27, 2024
About the author
Candace Plattor
9 books4 followersCandace Plattor is a professional speaker, a TEDx speaker, and the author of the award-winning "Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction".
Candace Plattor, M.A., R.C.C., is an Addictions Therapist in private practice, where she specializes in working with the family and other loved ones of people who are struggling with addiction. As a former opioid addict with over 35 years clean and sober, Candace has learned that overcoming addiction is a family condition: everyone in the family is affected by addiction and everyone needs to heal. For more than three decades, she has been helping both addicts and their loved ones understand their dysfunctional behaviours and make healthier life choices.
The results Candace achieves have been astounding: addicts stop using and families regain their lives back from the ravages of addiction. As the developer of the Love With Boundaries Family Addiction Counselling and Therapy method, Candace now works with her team of top counsellors, helping both the families and their addicts break the devastating cycle of addiction for good.
Candace is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS).
If addiction is causing pain and suffering in your family, and you’re ready to do what it takes to reclaim your sanity and serenity so you can live your best life, click go to lovewithboundaries.com/intake-questio... to qualify for a free 30-minutes consultation.
Candace Plattor, M.A., R.C.C., is an Addictions Therapist in private practice, where she specializes in working with the family and other loved ones of people who are struggling with addiction. As a former opioid addict with over 35 years clean and sober, Candace has learned that overcoming addiction is a family condition: everyone in the family is affected by addiction and everyone needs to heal. For more than three decades, she has been helping both addicts and their loved ones understand their dysfunctional behaviours and make healthier life choices.
The results Candace achieves have been astounding: addicts stop using and families regain their lives back from the ravages of addiction. As the developer of the Love With Boundaries Family Addiction Counselling and Therapy method, Candace now works with her team of top counsellors, helping both the families and their addicts break the devastating cycle of addiction for good.
Candace is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS).
If addiction is causing pain and suffering in your family, and you’re ready to do what it takes to reclaim your sanity and serenity so you can live your best life, click go to lovewithboundaries.com/intake-questio... to qualify for a free 30-minutes consultation.
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