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 pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week to date! I’m instructing a barre class as we speak and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For as we speak’s submit, 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 stoop 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 inquisitive 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 gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This ebook 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 occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like every little thing is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate 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 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 sooner or later her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have certain ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the very best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every little thing in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.

However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each girls are forged 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 dying. 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 latest 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 non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been sort of a tough time.) This ebook contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. Should 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 remodeled the lives of tens of millions of individuals. It is a ebook that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence 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 best way that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she presents us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Filled with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose ceaselessly!

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, nearly something may be healed.” Louise Hay had a substantial 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 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 adjustments that optimistic affirmations have made in so many lives. I’m additionally happy that my work has been embraced not solely by my technology, 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 actually 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 liable for every little thing in our lives, one of the best 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 aren’t 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 youngsters, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and data for find out how to assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run practical labs for his or her kiddos, and now 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 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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this ebook 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, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized rather a lot from studying this ebook. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically neglected the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and totally incurable, and has restricted ADHD remedy primarily to symptom suppression. Dr. Kenneth Bock, a number one medical innovator, alongside along 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 a lot of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

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

So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn these days and cherished?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina