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 just’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m educating a barre class at the moment and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For at the moment’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR record. 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 curious about 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 offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has certain toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This ebook was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it simple 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 every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it in the event you get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain 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 distinguished Fong household, she clings to the hope that sooner or later her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have certain 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 skills, Linjing does every little thing 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 dying. 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 so much occurring proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type of a tough time.) This ebook contains mantras and workout routines 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 reworked the lives of hundreds of thousands 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 way in which that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she affords us a robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something may be healed.” Louise Hay had a substantial 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 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 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 actually 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 little thing in our lives, one of the best 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’ll 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 issues are extremely frequent in youngsters, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for easy methods to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run useful labs for his or her kiddos, and now 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 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 price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this ebook doesn’t imply that I agree with every little thing he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to hold an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as doable.

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

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have usually ignored the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought of 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 foundation of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal techniques set off many of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an progressive biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical success, this program affords a secure, wise answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn these days and cherished?

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina