Anna Martin is a lawyer who is employed as an in house workplace relations specialist in Adelaide.

After being in active recovery from the negative effects of gambling harm for years, she realised that women deserve a better space to seek help, support and to advocate for change. This came from her experience in national advocacy including as a board member for the Alliance for Gambling Reform and a key stakeholder in the establishment of several grassroots advocacy movements around gambling harm and participation in national forums speaking on behalf of consumers.

It took Anna a long time to be able to start to talk about her own story, despite years of advocacy for others in this space. She realised that she could help by creating a space for women to recover ‘quietly’. Anna is conscious that sometimes women don’t want to let everyone know they are recovering from the impacts of gambling harm and need to manage their recovery in different ways. She knows this could be through reading resources online right through to fighting for systemic advocacy and created The Untangle Project with the aim to provide a resource for women to do just that - recover in their own way in their own time through their own methods. Anna feels cookie cutter approaches to recovery for women around gambling harm doesn’t work and will continue to fight for fit for purpose approaches right next to the women she knows deserve them.

Anna is not a counsellor and The Untangle Project is not for women who need immediate help - but she knows that women are stronger together and she's determined to keep fighting until the change she thinks women deserve is in place!

Listen to Anna’s story on our Looking for information page.

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