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"Walk a while in Mary Sojourner’s shoes (She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction) and you’ll quickly realize what a slippery slope gambling addiction is—especially for women. Written from personal experience, the book is at all times brutally honest, and alternately funny, heartbreaking, warm and wise."
—Addiction Treatment Magazine
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“She Bets Her Life is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read on problem gambling in my fifteen years in the field. Sojourner’s gutsy and vivid personal writing had me laughing and crying along with Scheherazade’s Sisters. Her more technical writing illuminates the complicated neuroscience of gambling addiction in a way that few others have.”
—Keith S. Whyte, Executive Director, National Council on Problem Gambling
“She Bets Her Life moves the reader from the early stages of innocence during a first visit to the casinos all the way through the painful withdrawal and physiological symptoms an addict can experience when she makes the decision to stop. I recommend this book to compulsive gamblers and their families, as well as trained gambling counselors. Sojourner’s unique blend of eloquence and immediacy provides keen insight into gambling addiction from a female’s perspective.”
—Marilyn Lancelot, author of Gripped by Gambling
“This stunning book is intense in its intimacy. The passion of the author is both beautiful and harrowing, the level of honesty and self-disclosure heroic. She Bets Her Life will help us reconsider our view of gambling and its impact on women.”
—Rob Hunter, PhD, Director of Problem Gambling Center, Reno and Las Vegas