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