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 this time and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For at this time’s publish, 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 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been occupied with 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 bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has certain toes and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This e book was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved 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 every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when you get pleasure from 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 bought 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 certain toes, 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 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 defend her?

You Can Heal Your Life

This was extremely really useful 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 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 workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. If you happen to’re in search of 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 tens of millions of individuals. This can be a e book that individuals 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 creator 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. Stuffed with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you assume ceaselessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, 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 could be healed.” Louise Hay had a substantial amount of expertise and firsthand info to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being identified 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, remodel and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To at the present time, 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 technology, 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 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is liable for every part in our lives, the most effective and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will 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 at all times in search of new insights and knowledge for the right way to assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run useful labs for his or her kiddos, and now 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 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 prefer to preserve 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, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized loads from studying this e book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have usually 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 remedy 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 foundation 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 outstanding Therapeutic Program is an modern 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 affords 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 fogeys and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina