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 to this point! I’m instructing a barre class at the moment and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

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 listing. 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 complete roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been eager 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 offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has certain ft and is proficient 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 straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks as if every part is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it if you happen to take pleasure in 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 sooner or later 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 ability related to the best class of a girl. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every part 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 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 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 sort of a tough time.) This e-book consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. If you happen to’re on the lookout for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. This can be 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 best way 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 constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually something may be healed.” Louise Hay had an excessive 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 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 this present day, I’m moved by the tales of profound modifications that constructive affirmations have made in so many lives. I’m additionally happy that my work has been embraced not solely by my technology, 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 converse 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is accountable for every part 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 are not any limits to what they’ll 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 frequent in youngsters, and I’m all the time on the lookout for new insights and data for how one can assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive 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’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 consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered lots from studying this e-book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically missed the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought of autism medically untreatable and completely incurable, and has restricted ADHD therapy 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 basis of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal methods set off a lot 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 youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program gives a secure, smart resolution that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina