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 buddies! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to date! I’m educating a barre class right now and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For right now’s put up, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR checklist. After being in a droop 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 by 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 sure toes and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and stored 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 like all the things is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it when you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure toes, or “golden lilies,” are the mark of an honorable girl, 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 in the future her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have sure toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a girl. 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 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 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 so much happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. In the event you’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals. It is a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational guide 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 presents us a robust 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 eternally!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually something might be healed.” Louise Hay had a substantial amount of expertise and firsthand data 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 today, 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 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 liable 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 aren’t 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 widespread in youngsters, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for tips on how to assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my shoppers 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 providers as an IHP2. I’m so grateful, and have discovered that I completely adore working with children.)

The creator of this guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d completely skip this guide. It’s additionally value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with all the things he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I prefer to hold an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as doable.

The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and medicine. It wasn’t essentially the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered so much from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs 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 together 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 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 modern biomedical method 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 presents a secure, wise answer that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina