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 buddies! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to date! 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 put up, 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 complete roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been excited by 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 certain ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This e-book was action-packed – it began off shortly and stored the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn shortly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks as if all the pieces is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it in the event you get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain ft, 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 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 certain ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does all the pieces 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 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 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 loads happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been type of a tough time.) This e-book contains mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. For those who’re searching 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 thousands and thousands of individuals. This can be a e-book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence 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 affords us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Filled with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you assume without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, nearly something could be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand info 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To this present day, I’m moved by the tales of profound adjustments that constructive 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 de facto 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 all the pieces 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 facility of affirmations as there aren’t any limits to what they’ll carry.

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 all the time searching for new insights and knowledge for the best way to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive 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 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 price 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 hold an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

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

From Amazon:

Medical doctors 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 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 foundation of the issue. They’ve discovered that fashionable 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 exceptional Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary biomedical strategy 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 answer that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual youngster. Hope is eventually inside attain.

So, inform me, buddies: what have you ever learn these days and liked?

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina