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 pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m educating a barre class in the present day and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For in the present day’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 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been all for 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 outstanding household. She has certain toes 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 facility of resilience, even when it looks like every part is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it should you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain toes, 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 outstanding 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 certain toes, 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 every part 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 creative 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 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 latest difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s lots happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been form of a tough time.) This ebook contains mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. For those who’re in search of 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 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 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 identified chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually something may be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand data 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To this present day, 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 predict 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 liable for every part in our lives, the perfect and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not 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 problems are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, 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 writer 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 every part he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered lots from studying this ebook. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have typically neglected the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and completely incurable, and has restricted ADHD therapy 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 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 outstanding Therapeutic Program is an progressive 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 gives a secure, smart answer that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is finally inside attain.

So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn currently and beloved?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina