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 pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m educating a barre class at the moment and searching ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For at the moment’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR listing. 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 enthusiastic about 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 toes and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This ebook was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward 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 towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when 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 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 sure toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, 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 demise. 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 current 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, but it surely’s been form of a tough time.) This ebook consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. When you’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 tens of millions of individuals. This can be a ebook that folks 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 affords 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 endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, nearly something will 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, remodel 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 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 communicate 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 answerable for every part in our lives, the most effective and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will 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 frequent in kids, and I’m at all times in search of new insights and data for methods to assist youngsters 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 useful labs for his or her kiddos, and still 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 value 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 maintain an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.

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

From Amazon:

Docs have typically missed the connections among the many 4-A problems. 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 problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary biomedical method 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 affords a secure, wise resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual baby. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina