The Pocket Cards — 30 Printable Wallet Cards

Thirty wallet cards for the moment itself — when there is no time to sit down and write, and something has to shift in the next sixty seconds.

The journal is where you work it out. These are what you carry. Same understanding, folded down small enough to live in a wallet behind your bank card, so it is there at nine o'clock on a Friday when you need it and not on a shelf at home.

What you get

• Set one — When the urge is here. Ten cards to read in the sixty seconds before a decision gets made. Ten minutes. Play the tape to the end. Change the room. Card ten is the helpline.
• Set two — What I understand now. The shifts in thinking that took me years to arrive at, one to a card. You are not a bad person. Today still counts. Secrecy is the fuel.
• Set three — For someone else. For partners, parents and friends — and for handing to somebody who has not said anything yet. Ask, do not accuse. You did not cause it. You need support too.

How it prints

Three A4 sheets, ten cards to a sheet, with dotted cut lines and crop marks in the margins. Each card finishes at 85.6 × 54mm — exactly bank-card size, so it sits in a card slot without folding. Print at 100% on ordinary paper, or on card if you have it, and cut with scissors or a steel rule.

There are five small tally boxes at the foot of every card. Tick one each time a card works. The card with four ticks in it is the one to keep at the front of your wallet.

The honest bit

This is an instant PDF download. Nothing is posted to you, there is no app and no login, and you can reprint it as often as you like, forever. A card in your wallet is not treatment and it is no substitute for help — the National Gambling Helpline is free on 0808 8020 133, 24 hours a day.

Written by one person in the UK, from fifteen years of gambling addiction and the way back from it.