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 buddies! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m instructing a barre class right now and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For right now’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR checklist. 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 curious 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 distinguished household. She has certain ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved 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 as if every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it in case 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 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 talent related to the best class of a girl. 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 demise. 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 really useful 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 rather a lot occurring proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been type of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. If you happen to’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 thousands and thousands of individuals. It is 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 way in which 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 optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you suppose ceaselessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, virtually something might 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 recognized 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, remodel 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 admittedly 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 every little thing 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 aren’t 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 widespread in kids, and I’m all the time searching for new insights and knowledge for the way to assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers 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 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 youngsters.)

The writer of this guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d 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 consider the identical issues. I prefer 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 probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered rather a lot from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have usually neglected the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and totally 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 techniques set off a lot 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 strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program gives a protected, wise 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 personal little one. Hope is finally inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina