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 mates! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m instructing a barre class at present and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For at present’s put up, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR checklist. After being in a droop 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 occupied with 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 offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has sure ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This e-book was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn shortly – however shattered my coronary heart so many occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it should you 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 offered 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 awfully gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does every part 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 inventive prowess catches the attention of a nobleman. His consideration threatens not solely her improved standing, however her life—the Sisterhood punishes disobedience with loss of life. 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 quite a bit occurring proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type of a tough time.) This e-book consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. In case you’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals. This can be a e-book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational e-book 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 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 best way you assume eternally!

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, nearly something will 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, rework 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 technology, 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 absolutely 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 chargeable for every part in our lives, the most effective 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 are not any limits to what they’ll carry.

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 kids, and I’m at all times in search of new insights and knowledge for assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run practical labs for his or her kiddos, and still have kindly unfold the phrase about my companies as an IHP2. I’m so grateful, and have discovered that I completely adore working with children.)

The creator 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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e-book doesn’t imply that I agree with every part he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as doable.

The therapeutic program that he consists of 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 quite a bit from studying this e-book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have usually ignored 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 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 methods 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 kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program gives a secure, smart resolution that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina