February 2025 Reads – The Fitnessista

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

Hello buddies! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week to date! I’m educating a barre class at the moment and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For at the moment’s put up, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR record. 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 complete roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been enthusiastic about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Lady Tan’s Circle of Women) and this one caught my eye. This book is in regards to the story of Little Flower, who’s bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has certain ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and stored the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it in the event 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 outstanding Fong household, she clings to the hope that in the future her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have certain ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does every little thing 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 defend her?

You Can Heal Your Life

This was extremely advisable on a Skinny Confidential podcast, so I downloaded it instantly. It’s introduced me peace throughout some current difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s lots happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been type 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. When you’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. This can be a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression 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 best way that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she gives us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help area. 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 info 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To today, 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 wish to share with you the next: Each thought we expect 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 chargeable for every little thing in our lives, the perfect and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they’ll 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 frequent in kids, 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 purchasers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run useful labs for his or her kiddos, and now have kindly unfold the phrase about my companies 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 might completely skip this guide. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with every little thing he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to hold an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

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

From Amazon:

Docs have usually ignored the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought of autism medically untreatable and completely 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 foundation of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal programs set off a lot of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an modern biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of scientific success, this program gives a protected, smart answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, buddies: what have you ever learn recently and liked?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina