About the Book
It's Just Like Poker: A Spiritual Guide to Playing the Cards Life Deals You
By Dr. Constance Santego
What if the key to navigating life's chaos, heartbreak, and uncertainty was found in the strategy of a poker game?
In It's Just Like Poker, Dr. Constance Santego blends spiritual insight, real poker wisdom, and soulful storytelling to deliver a transformative guide for anyone learning to play the hand life has dealt them. Whether you're a seasoned card shark or just someone who's tired of losing to life's bad beats, this book offers a new way to see the game-from the inside out.
Each chapter unpacks a timeless poker truth-folding when it's time, reading the energy at the table, bluffing with integrity, going all in-and reveals how these same lessons apply to your spiritual journey, relationships, intuition, and personal growth.
This isn't a how-to on poker. It's a soulful manual for the heart.
Through deeply relatable vignettes, spiritual teachings, and reflection prompts, Dr. Santego invites you to examine your mindset, your patterns, and your power to choose-even when you can't control the cards. You'll explore themes such as:
Playing a bad hand with grace-and sometimes winning anyway
Knowing when to walk away-from relationships, roles, or dreams
Listening to your gut, even when the world says you're wrong
Trusting the turn, the river, and the divine timing of your journey
Releasing control, ego, and emotional "tilt" to find inner peace
You'll also discover The Table Takeaway at the end of each chapter-a fusion of poker insight and spiritual wisdom designed to stick with you long after you've closed the book.
For poker players, this book will make you reflect on the why behind your moves-and possibly elevate your game off the felt.
For spiritual seekers, it offers a grounded and refreshing way to access growth through metaphor and meaning.
And for everyone, it's a reminder:
You may not get to choose your cards.
But you do get to choose how you play them.
If you've ever felt like you're stuck in a losing streak, waiting for life to deal you something better-It's Just Like Poker is your call to action. Honest, empowering, and rich with insight, this book is your invitation to stop folding to fear... and start playing with soul.
About the Author :
Dr. Constance Santego is a trailblazer in holistic health, energy medicine, and spiritual development-with more than 25 years of teaching, healing, and hands-on experience guiding thousands toward personal transformation. With a Ph.D. and Doctorate in Natural Medicine, her work is grounded in both ancient wisdom and modern understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection.Known for her transformational teaching style, Dr. Constance Santego has empowered thousands through her workshops, trainings, and the acclaimed Secrets of a Healer book series. As the author of over 40 books, she explores the powerful intersections of intuition, energy medicine, metaphysics, and spiritual law-guiding readers and students on profound journeys of self-discovery. Her work invites others to reconnect with their inner truth, unlock their spiritual gifts, and live with clarity, purpose, and empowerment. Whether teaching, writing, or facilitating healing, Dr. Santego's message is unwavering: you are your own greatest healer-and your life is not random, but intelligently guided. And yes-when she's not writing, teaching, or leading retreats, Dr. Santego loves to sit down at the poker table. She's been told she plays a mean game of Texas Hold'em, and truth be told... she does. Why? Because she reads energy, trusts her gut, and knows when to go all in.This unique mix of healer and strategist is what inspired It's Just Like Poker-a reflection of life's risks, wins, losses, timing, and unseen magic. Just like in healing, just like in poker-how you play matters more than what you're dealt.
