Great to meet you Alliesmum today in chat! You have already taken on board some of the most helpful suggestions and applied them. Self banning and giving over control of finances can help a lot with urges, not to mention the self damage it saves us from. As you keep working on your recovery, so important for yourself and your young family, hopefully you will find the urges to gamble lessening and will be excited by your progress made and the possibilities not gambling can bring to our life. Well done on all your steps so far! There is no need to be perfect here in our recovery. Most of us are striving for progress with our recovery. The journey often isn’t straight and can be bumpy by times but we just try and help each other through it.
Welcome to the forum. I will do my best to post some promised links over the next day or so. Take care,
Laura