February 2025 Reads – The Fitnessista

A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your assortment.

Hello mates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to date! I’m educating a barre class right this moment and searching ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For right this moment’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR listing. After being in a hunch with books for some time, and with launching Healing Code + engaged on IHP3, I learn three books final month, which I’m calling a win.

Right here’s the total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been involved in Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Lady Tan’s Circle of Women) and this one caught my eye. This book is concerning the story of Little Flower, who’s bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has certain ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and stored the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like all the pieces is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it should you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain ft, or “golden lilies,” are the mark of an honorable lady, eclipsing magnificence, a wealthy dowry and even bloodline within the marriage stakes. When Little Flower is bought as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished Fong household, she clings to the hope that at some point her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have certain ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does all the pieces in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.

However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each ladies are solid out to the Celibate Sisterhood, the place Little Flower’s inventive prowess catches the attention of a nobleman. His consideration threatens not solely her improved standing, however her life—the Sisterhood punishes disobedience with loss of life. And if Linjing finds out, will she sabotage Little Flower to reclaim her energy, or will she shield her?

You Can Heal Your Life

This was extremely really useful on a Skinny Confidential podcast, so I downloaded it instantly. It’s introduced me peace throughout some latest difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s loads occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been form of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. If you happen to’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of tens of millions of individuals. This can be a guide that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational guide by the late world-renowned bestselling writer and self-help pioneer Louise Hay, you’ll discover profound perception into the connection between the thoughts and the physique.

Exploring the way in which that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she affords us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Filled with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume perpetually!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, virtually something will be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand data to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being identified with most cancers.

“My message is straightforward and never confined by borders: You Can Heal Your Life has been translated into over 40 languages all through the world and continues to heal, remodel and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To at the present time, I’m moved by the tales of profound modifications that constructive affirmations have made in so many lives. I’m additionally happy that my work has been embraced not solely by my era, however those that have adopted.

To these of you who could also be new to utilizing affirmations, I’d prefer to share with you the next: Each thought we predict and each phrase we communicate creates our future. Life is absolutely quite simple. What we give out, we get again.

What we take into consideration ourselves turns into the reality for us. I imagine that everybody, myself included, is answerable for all the pieces in our lives, one of the best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will deliver.

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders

This book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and data for learn how to assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my shoppers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run purposeful labs for his or her kiddos, and now have kindly unfold the phrase about my providers as an IHP2. I’m so grateful, and have discovered that I completely adore working with children.)

The writer of this guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d completely skip this guide. It’s additionally value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with all the pieces he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to hold an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized loads from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have usually ignored the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and totally incurable, and has restricted ADHD remedy primarily to symptom suppression. Dr. Kenneth Bock, a number one medical innovator, alongside together with his colleagues, have found an answer that goes to the basis of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal techniques set off a lot of the signs of the 4-A problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program affords a secure, smart resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual baby. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, mates: what have you ever learn currently and liked?

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina