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 just’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m instructing a barre class at this time and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For at this time’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR listing. After being in a stoop with books for some time, and with launching Therapeutic 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 Sneakers
I’ve been curious about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Woman Tan’s Circle of Ladies) and this one caught my eye. This e-book is in regards to the story of Little Flower, who’s bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has sure ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This e-book 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 facility of resilience, even when it looks like all the things is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it should you get pleasure from 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 outstanding 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 sure ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does all the things 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 demise. And if Linjing finds out, will she sabotage Little Flower to reclaim her energy, or will she shield her?
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 loads happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been sort of a tough time.) This e-book contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. In case you’re on the lookout for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, undoubtedly 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 e-book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.
On this inspirational e-book 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 robust 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 ceaselessly!
Louise Hay, bestselling writer, 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 an excessive amount of expertise and firsthand data 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 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 wish to share with you the next: Each thought we expect and each phrase we communicate 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is chargeable for all the things in our lives, one of the 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 aren’t any limits to what they will deliver.
This e-book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for tips on how to assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run useful 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 writer of this e-book, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d completely skip this e-book. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e-book doesn’t imply that I agree with all the things he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to hold 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, detoxing, and medicine. It wasn’t essentially the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized loads from studying this e-book. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors have typically neglected the connections among the many 4-A problems. 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 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 progressive biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of scientific success, this program gives a secure, smart 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 may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn currently and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
