The Game Of Life And How To Play It

by Florence Scovel Shinn, Kate Large, Kalyn Franke

Heal from trauma and awaken your highest potential with this trauma-informed, spiritual edition of a timeless classic.

The Game of Life and How to Play It (Annotated Edition) is a powerful reinterpretation of Florence Scovel Shinn’s beloved guide, now enriched with trauma-sensitive insights, mindfulness tools, and somatic healing practices to support deep emotional transformation.

What Makes This Edition

– A trauma-aware approach that respects your healing journey and emotional resilience
– Integrates mind-body connection techniques, grounding exercises, and somatic wisdom
– Annotated insights bridging spiritual philosophy with evidence-based psychological practices
– Tools to help release trauma patterns and cultivate self-compassion and emotional wellbeing
– Guidance for manifesting your highest potential through mindfulness, meditation, and trauma-informed self-help

This edition is perfect for readers seeking a holistic healing path that combines spiritual growth with trauma recovery and personal transformation.

Ideal

– Survivors of trauma and emotional wounds
– Anyone interested in trauma-sensitive yoga, somatic healing, and mindfulness
– Readers of spiritual and New Thought philosophy
– Those seeking practical tools for emotional resilience and personal growth
– Practitioners and students of psychology, self-help, and holistic healing

Begin your trauma-informed journey today — heal, grow, and thrive by mastering the game of life with compassion and spiritual wisdom.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 5, 2025

About the author

Florence Scovel Shinn (September 24, 1871, Camden, New Jersey – October 17, 1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years. In New Thought circles, she is best known for her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925).

Her books "Your Word Is Your Wand" and "The Game of Life and How To Play It" were released as audiobooks in 2014 and 2015 respectively and were narrated by actress Hillary Hawkins.

Shinn is considered part of the New Thought movement, as her writings follow in the tradition of Phineas Quimby (1802–1866), Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925), and both Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931), co-founders of the Unity Church.

Motivational author Louise Hay acknowledges her as an early influence.