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 up to now! I’m educating a barre class in the present day and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For in the present day’s submit, 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 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 excited 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 outstanding household. She has sure toes 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 saved the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many occasions. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks as if every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it for those who take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 outstanding Fong household, she clings to the hope that someday her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have sure toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, 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 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 lots occurring 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 workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. In case you’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 reworked the lives of tens of millions of individuals. It is a e-book that individuals 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 way in which that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she gives 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 without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something might 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, remodel and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To at the present time, 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 predict and each phrase we communicate 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is chargeable for every part in our lives, the very 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 are not 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 issues are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m at all times searching for new insights and knowledge for methods to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! 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 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’d 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 every part he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish 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 drugs. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized lots from studying this e-book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically 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 foundation 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 a lot of the signs of the 4-A issues, 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 youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of scientific success, this program gives a secure, smart answer that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina