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 associates! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m educating a barre class right now and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For right now’s submit, 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been focused on 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 sure ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This guide was action-packed – it began off shortly and stored the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn shortly – however shattered my coronary heart so many occasions. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks like the whole lot is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest 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 bought as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished 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 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 skills, Linjing does the whole lot 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 creative 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 current difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s rather a lot happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. In the event you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken 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. This can be a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational guide 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 best way 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 best way you assume without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, 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 may be healed.” Louise Hay had an excessive amount of expertise and firsthand info to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being identified with most cancers.

“My message is easy 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 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 expect and each phrase we communicate 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 imagine that everybody, myself included, is answerable for the whole lot in our lives, the perfect and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on 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 issues are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m all the time searching for new insights and data for how one can 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 purposeful labs for his or her kiddos, and still 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 creator 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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with the whole lot he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as doable.

The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized rather a lot from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have typically neglected 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 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 many 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 method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical success, this program affords a protected, smart resolution that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis 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 finally inside attain.

So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn these days and liked?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina