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 to date! I’m educating a barre class in the present day and searching ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For in the present day’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate 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 taken 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 offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has certain toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. 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 instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if every little thing is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it if you happen to 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 offered as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished 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 awfully gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a girl. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every little thing 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 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 defend 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 latest difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s so much occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’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 optimistic affilmations. In the event you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken 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. It is 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 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 robust 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 suppose without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help subject. 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 today, 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 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 little thing in our lives, one of the best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will 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 kids, and I’m all the time searching for new insights and data for the best way to assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run useful 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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e-book doesn’t imply that I agree with every little thing he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to hold an open thoughts and hearken 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 probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized so much from studying this e-book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically ignored the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and completely incurable, and has restricted ADHD therapy 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 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 modern biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program gives a protected, smart answer that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual youngster. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn these days and cherished?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina