She Bets Her Life

A writer and former compulsive gambler reflects on women and addiction.

Grief

Mourning has its own time-line.

Mary Sojourner M.A on February 26, 2011

Parenting

Imagine easy balance with your child.

Mary Sojourner M.A on February 19, 2011

Adolescence

Are we rats in a cage of expectations and diagnoses?

Mary Sojourner M.A on February 12, 2011

Compulsive Behaviors

Football widows or widowers: heads up!

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 27, 2011

Depression

Video Gaming can cause depression, anxiety and social phobia: 2

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 26, 2011

Addiction

Is your child depressed - or suffering from gaming addiction?

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 24, 2011

Relationships

The Gibbon Mother - a brief lesson in love

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 21, 2011

Memory

A gift for you - on my seventy-first birthday

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 15, 2011

Compulsive Behaviors

You go, 60 Minutes! - for a brilliant expose of slot machine addiction

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 10, 2011

Cognition

Open letter to Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama and my American sisters

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 8, 2011

Friends

You're a smart tech junkie - the dealers are smarter

Mary Sojourner M.A on January 3, 2011

Personal Perspectives

Three Sacred Questions for your new year

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 31, 2010

Personal Perspectives

I'm going to change my life in 2011 - really?

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 29, 2010

Personal Perspectives

Today is the Antidote

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 21, 2010

Personal Perspectives

Antidote 20: for holiday nostalgia

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 20, 2010

Personal Perspectives

Antidote 19: for holiday claustrophobia

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 19, 2010

Depression

Antidote 18: for holiday "this gift is too expensive"

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 18, 2010

Depression

Antidote #17: for holiday loss

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 17, 2010

Personal Perspectives

Antidotes #11-16: for holiday burn-out

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 16, 2010

Personal Perspectives

Antidotes #8-10: for whatever you need

Mary Sojourner M.A on December 8, 2010

Mary Sojourner, M.A., is the author of She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction (Seal Press/ April 2010) and Going Through Ghosts (U.Nevada Press, 2010).

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