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 thus far! 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 record. After being in a droop 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 inquisitive 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 bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has certain ft and is proficient 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 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 as if every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it in case you take pleasure in 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 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 certain ft, 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 solid 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 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 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 occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. When you’re on the lookout for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals. This can be 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 way in which 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. Filled with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume eternally!

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, virtually something will be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot 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 prefer to share with you the next: Each thought we expect and each phrase we communicate 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 liable for every part in our lives, the perfect 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 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 data for how one can assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their dad and mom, 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 creator of this guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might completely skip this guide. It’s additionally value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with every part 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 potential.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered loads from studying this guide. 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 therapy primarily to symptom suppression. Dr. Kenneth Bock, a number one medical innovator, alongside along 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 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 medical success, this program presents a protected, smart resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina