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She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction (2010)

by Mary Sojourner

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What sets She Bets Her Life apart is Mary Sojourner's ability to take both an objective and a deeply personal look at the psychological and physiological impact of gambling addiction on women. Having lived it, Sojourner is brutally forthcoming, and with her penchant for research and fact-finding, the narrative is teeming with important information and resources to help steer women with gambling addictions (and their loved ones) toward help and healing.… (more)
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If I had one wish for women who have mortgaged their souls and traded their power for the illusion of "the big win," it would be for them to find just one person who will tell them, "Gambling is something you do, it is not you you are. You are not a worthless piece of shit; you are a person who - because you have a deadly, vicious, and aggressive disease - has made some really bad choices, and with encouragement and support, you can learn how to make different choices that will give you back your life."
- Carole Seeley, Gambling Addictions Counselor
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For the Scheherazade's Sisters,
for the women who have not been
able to stop gambling,
for the women who have.
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What sets She Bets Her Life apart is Mary Sojourner's ability to take both an objective and a deeply personal look at the psychological and physiological impact of gambling addiction on women. Having lived it, Sojourner is brutally forthcoming, and with her penchant for research and fact-finding, the narrative is teeming with important information and resources to help steer women with gambling addictions (and their loved ones) toward help and healing.

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