February 2025 Reads – The Fitnessi...

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 simply’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m educating a barre class in the present day and searching ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For in the present day’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR record. After being in a stoop 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 excited by 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 offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has sure ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This ebook was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if every thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it if you happen to take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

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

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

However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each ladies are forged 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 demise. 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 beneficial 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 so much occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type of a tough time.) This ebook consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. In the event you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, undoubtedly give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. It is a ebook that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational ebook by the late world-renowned bestselling creator 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 robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, virtually something could 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 recognized 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 this present day, I’m moved by the tales of profound adjustments 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 wish to share with you the next: Each thought we predict and each phrase we converse creates our future. Life is basically 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 chargeable for every thing in our lives, the most effective and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there aren’t 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 issues are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m at all times searching for new insights and data for methods to assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run practical labs for his or her kiddos, and still have kindly unfold the phrase about my companies as an IHP2. I’m so grateful, and have discovered that I completely adore working with youngsters.)

The creator of this ebook, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might completely skip this ebook. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this ebook doesn’t imply that I agree with every thing he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered so much from studying this ebook. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have usually ignored the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and completely incurable, and has restricted ADHD therapy 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 methods set off many of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an progressive biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program affords a secure, wise answer that’s individualized to every little one 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 little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, mates: what have you ever learn these days and beloved?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina