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

For in the present day’s put up, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR record. 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 fascinated with 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 distinguished household. She has sure ft 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 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 ability of resilience, even when it looks like all the things is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when you get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 distinguished 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 ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does all the things 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 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 so much happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been form 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. 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 thousands and 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 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 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 today, 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 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 predict and each phrase we converse creates our future. Life is de facto 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 all the things in our lives, the perfect and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you just 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 problems are extremely frequent in youngsters, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for the right way to assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run purposeful 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 youngsters.)

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 price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e-book doesn’t imply that I agree with all the things he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I prefer to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.

The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, 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 usually neglected the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought of autism medically untreatable and totally 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 techniques set off many 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 method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program gives a secure, smart answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and youngsters that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is finally inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina