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 associates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m instructing 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 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 enthusiastic about 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 certain ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This ebook 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 facility of resilience, even when it looks as if the whole lot is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when you get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain 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 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 awfully gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the best class of a girl. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does the whole lot 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 creative 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 helpful 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 quite a bit happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been form of a tough time.) This ebook contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. In the event you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of tens of millions of individuals. This can be a ebook that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect 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 gives us a robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you suppose perpetually!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified 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 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To at the present time, I’m moved by the tales of profound modifications that optimistic 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 expect and each phrase we converse creates our future. Life is de facto quite simple. What we give out, we get again.

What we take into consideration ourselves turns into the reality for us. I consider that everybody, myself included, is chargeable for the whole lot in our lives, the very best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they’ll convey.

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 frequent in kids, and I’m at all times searching for new insights and knowledge for find out how to assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their dad and mom, 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 youngsters.)

The creator of this ebook, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d 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 the whole lot he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I prefer to preserve an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.

The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered quite a bit from studying this ebook. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have usually neglected the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought of 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 foundation of the issue. They’ve discovered that fashionable toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal techniques set off many of the signs of the 4-A problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s exceptional Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary 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 gives a protected, wise answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal little one. Hope is finally inside attain.

So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn currently and cherished?

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina