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 associates! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m educating a barre class at the moment and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For at the moment’s publish, 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 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 concerned with 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 toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This e book was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks like all the pieces is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it should you get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 bought as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished Fong household, she clings to the hope that someday her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have sure toes, 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 all the pieces 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 creative 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 advisable 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 so much happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been type of a tough time.) This e book contains mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. When you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. This can be a e book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence 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 presents us a strong 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 assume without end!

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 might 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 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 constructive 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 admittedly 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 accountable for all the pieces in our lives, the very best 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 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 searching for new insights and data for tips on how to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive 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 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 might completely skip this e book. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e book doesn’t imply that I agree with all the pieces he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish 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 elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered so much from studying this e book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have typically ignored the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought of 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 fashionable toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal programs 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 revolutionary 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 presents 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 can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina