{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fe6bdaba0-01b3-4845-a165-ff6ba01c0644","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Managing Addictions Through Divorce And Beyond","description":"On today\u2019s episode, we talk with Candace Plattor, an Addictions Therapist who supports families of addicts. Candace openly discusses her addiction to medically prescribed opioids due to a chronic health condition at a time when this was not recognized by the medical profession. She shares the depths of the depression that led her to call a helpline that started her recovery process.\n\nCandace shares the challenges with the current methods of treating addiction and how they do not address the reality that addicts and their families face. Candace stresses that addiction recovery is a choice and a conscious effort every day to remain sober. We talk about how codependency can hold people in relationships with addicts and how manipulative these situations can become. We also discuss the manipulation and gaslighting that addicts use to keep loved ones in a toxic relationship by placing blame.\n\nCandace shares the importance of understanding the actions of the addicts and how loved ones play an important role and have an influence in the life of the addict. She shares how enabling and codependency can be changed to support addiction recovery through boundary setting.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/1d016816-a31b-4245-9f63-2710d48a3940/doS_nYYZrT4cYH_rblBLtWEW.png"}