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 pals! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m educating a barre class right this moment and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For right this 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 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 complete roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been all for 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 distinguished household. She has certain toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This e book 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 instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like all the things is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it when you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain toes, or “golden lilies,” are the mark of an honorable lady, 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 very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does all the things in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.

However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each ladies 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 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 so much happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type 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. If you happen to’re on the lookout for 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 hundreds of thousands 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 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 provides 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 best way you assume endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually something may 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 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 this present day, 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 wish 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 answerable for all the things in our lives, the most effective 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 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 issues are extremely frequent in kids, and I’m all the time on the lookout for new insights and data for the right way to 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 useful 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 writer 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 things he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to maintain an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

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

From Amazon:

Docs have usually missed 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 along 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 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 progressive biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of scientific success, this program provides a protected, smart answer that’s individualized to every little one 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 little one. Hope is finally inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina