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 associates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m educating a barre class at present and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For at present’s put up, 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 hunch 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 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 bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has certain ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This e-book 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 as if all the pieces is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it if you happen to get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain 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 bought 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 certain ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a girl. 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 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 loads happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort of a tough time.) This e-book consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. In case you’re on the lookout for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed 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. It is a e-book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression 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 way in which 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 optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, virtually something might 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 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 communicate 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 accountable for all the pieces in our lives, one of the best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there aren’t any limits to what they’ll 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 problems are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for how one can assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers 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 providers 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 value 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 preserve an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.

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 realized loads from studying this e-book. 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 totally 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 a lot of the signs of the 4-A problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s exceptional Therapeutic Program is an modern biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical 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 oldsters and youngsters that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal youngster. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina