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 simply’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m instructing a barre class as we speak and searching ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For as we speak’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 inquisitive 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 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 lessons. This e-book was action-packed – it began off rapidly and stored the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if all the pieces 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 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 in the future 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 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 girls 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 loss of life. 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 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 lots happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’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 optimistic affilmations. In the event you’re on the lookout 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. This can be a e-book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect 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 presents us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume eternally!

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 might 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 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 at the present time, I’m moved by the tales of profound adjustments that optimistic 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 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 accountable for all the pieces in our lives, the perfect and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply 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 youngsters, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for how one can assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run purposeful 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 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 all the pieces he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, 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 discovered lots 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 completely 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 fashionable 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 progressive biomedical strategy 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 presents a secure, smart resolution that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your personal youngster. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina