“I quickly learned that I prefer to think about other people than wallow. I didn’t realise it at the time, but it was a form of therapy.”

"It's important for there to be more people out there that look like me, being positive role models and showing others they can do it too."

“Getting my life experience, it was hard, but now I can help others and that is a special thing. It helps me as much as it helps them.”

"You can break cycles, you can break routines, you can break bad habits and you can create new ones."

"It’s important to reduce stigma and recognise gambling as a serious and escalating problem for some people"

“I struggled to understand why I couldn't just stop, why I no longer could think rationally, why almost everything was a trigger to gamble.”

“The buzz and getting lost in the moment of gambling was what got me hooked.”

“I just wanted to offer peer support to people struggling. Because I knew it was something I could have used at the time”

"I'm grateful, and incredibly lucky, to have gotten out of the other side of my experience of conversion therapy."

"I enjoyed my brief stint with finally having a childhood and a young adulthood."