February 2025 Reads – The Fitnessista

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 date! I’m instructing a barre class at present and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For at present’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 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 fascinated by 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 bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has sure ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and stored the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like all the pieces is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it if you happen to get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 sure ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does all the pieces 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 demise. 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 so much happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. If you happen to’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 hundreds of thousands of individuals. It is a guide that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational guide 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 robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Filled with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually something will be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand info to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being recognized 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 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 prefer to share with you the next: Each thought we expect and each phrase we converse 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 imagine that everybody, myself included, is chargeable for all the pieces in our lives, the most effective and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there aren’t any limits to what they will 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 issues are extremely frequent in kids, 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 shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run useful 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 youngsters.)

The creator 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 all the pieces he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to hold an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered so much from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have usually missed the connections among the many 4-A issues. 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 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 many of the signs of the 4-A issues, 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 kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program gives a secure, wise resolution that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual youngster. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina