Candace Plattor’s addiction guide earns Readers’ Favorite 5-star review

Candace Plattor’s Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself received a Five-Star Professional Review from Readers’ Favorite for its focus on the families affected by addiction. The recognition underscores the book’s practical advice on boundaries, enabling and self-care for loved ones supporting someone in active addiction.

Why it matters: - The review spotlights a book aimed at spouses, parents, siblings, adult children, friends and caregivers whose lives are often consumed by another person’s addiction. - The book centers self-protection and healthy boundaries, a shift from addiction books that focus mainly on the person using substances. - Readers’ Favorite called the guide a practical resource for people looking for immediate steps they can use at home.

What happened: - Candace Plattor’s Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction earned a Five-Star Professional Review from Readers’ Favorite. - Readers’ Favorite described the book as “a timely self-help guide” and “a supremely honest and helpful resource for those who love someone in active addiction.” - The review praised Plattor for pairing “tough truth with practical self-respect” and said the book is “well written and loaded with answers... Very highly recommended.”

The details: - Plattor is an addiction counsellor and educator with an MA. - The book uses practical guidance, relatable case studies and a compassionate ten-step framework. - The framework helps readers understand the difference between helping and enabling. - The book emphasizes that healthy, dignified boundaries can be the first step toward healing. - Plattor said, “For decades, I've watched families believe that loving someone means sacrificing themselves.” - Plattor added that caring for yourself is not abandoning someone you love, and can be “the healthiest and most compassionate choice you can make.” - The review said readers can begin applying the guidance immediately through real-life examples and actionable strategies. - The book is available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. - The print version is available in bookstores throughout Canada and the US. - The print book can also be ordered through Amazon, Indigo, or Barnes & Noble.

Between the lines: - The review validates a broader message that family members often need their own recovery tools, not just advice for the person with addiction. - The book’s framing suggests that boundaries are not a rejection of loved ones, but a way to reduce chaos, division and mistrust inside the family. - Love With Boundaries positions family-wide healing as part of the response to addiction, including support for parents, siblings, spouses and grandparents.

What's next: - Families struggling with addiction can request a free consultation through Love With Boundaries. - The company says its counsellors work with the whole family and focus on helping relatives heal together. - Plattor continues to promote the book’s central message: if nothing changes, nothing changes.

The bottom line: - The Readers’ Favorite review gives Plattor’s guide added credibility as a practical resource for families trying to support someone in addiction without losing themselves.