Making Bets in a Burning House

Join Kat and Mouse in a conversation with Chad: musician, business owner, father, husband, and fellow 12-stepper. He shares with us his journey to recovery from alcohol addiction, to navigating his wife’s problem gambling. Trigger Warning: Language

In this episode, Kat and Mouse explore some of the experiences that caught them off guard in as they discovered their ex-husbands’ gambling addiction. In discussing these unwelcome surprises they hope you’ll be prepared. Trigger Warning: Suicide, Language

We’re talking with Anna Martin, lawyer and Founder of The Untangle Project, an innovative healing community in Australia dedicated to supporting women through recovery in their own ways. She’s also a compulsive gambler in long-time recovery who speaks candidly about her experiences and the ways that society can make necessary changes to fight this horrific disease. Trigger Warning: Language

Join Kat and Mouse in conversation about how we can better support kiddos who have a compulsive gambler in their life. Kat will talk through her children’s workbook and adult facilitators guide as she shows us the importance of bringing kids into recovery not just for them, but for their trust adults, too. Trigger Warning: Language

Kat and Mouse talk with Amanda Lockyer, Addiction Recovery Coach, podcaster, and founder of Addiction Makes 3, a coaching program all about supporting loved ones doing the heavy lifting of loving someone battling addiction. Trigger Warning: Language.

After a lengthy side conversation, Kat and Mouse invite us to consider what that phrase “I’m Fine!” actually means, and why it’s such a detriment to our recovery when navigating life with a compulsive gambler. Whether protective or silencing, “Fine” is never this simple. Trigger Warning: Language, Suicide

Join Kat and Mouse in their conversation with Ted Hartwell, former Executive Director, now Director of Storytelling for the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, and learn more about the importance of speaking our stories to our healing and recovery process. Trigger Warning: Suicide, Language

We tackle a common question family and friends of compulsive gamblers ask at the start of and throughout their recovery: When does the trust come back? This topic is a big one and Kat and Mouse are here to talk through their experience of it. Trigger Warning: Language, Abuse

Join Mouse in her conversation with Rick Smith, co-founder of Mental Health Counseling and Consultants. He’ll help us understand the neurobiology of gambling addiction and how loved ones can protect themselves and help their compulsive gamblers in the recovery process. Trigger Warning: Suicide, Language

Kat and Mouse tackle the frustrations and complications that come with the first directive for friends and families of compulsive gamblers: stop enabling. But, what is enabling, really? What does it look like? And, how can loved one’s support their gambling addicts without doing this? Trigger Warning: Language

This episode is the second half of Mouse’s conversations with Dr. Malkin about gambling-related harms & gambling-motivated crime and risk of historically oppressed, marginalized, and under-researched populations.  Trigger Warning: Language

In this episode, Part 1, Mouse is joined by Dr. Michelle Malkin, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and the Director of the Gambling Research and Policy Initiative (GRPI) at East Carolina University. Trigger Warning: Language

Kat and Mouse discuss the options presented to loved ones with a compulsive gambler in their life: work through the house fires, or run? Trigger Warning: Language

Kat and Mouse discuss their initial confrontation with gambling with the hope that their experiences and knowledge can help you navigate your own. Trigger Warning: Language

Kat and Mouse discuss something that makes living life with gambling addiction more complicated than ever: kiddos. Kat shares her experiences of trying to hold for her then-9 and -11 year olds. Trigger Warning: Language

Kat and Mouse tackle one of the hardest topics when it comes to living with a compulsive gambler: hope. Each shares how they found hope from within and outside of the flames consuming their lives, and finding peace. Trigger Warning: Language

Kat shares her story of discovering her husband’s gambling addiction. Trigger Warning: child abuse, emotional abuse, suicidal ideation; language.

Mouse shares her journey through her 1st & 2nd husbands’ gambling addictions. Trigger Warning: intimate partner abuse, domestic violence, suicide; language.