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 associates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m instructing a barre class immediately and searching ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For immediately’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest 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 fascinated about 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 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 like every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it should you 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 offered as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished Fong household, she clings to the hope that at some point 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 very best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every part 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 creative 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 shield 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 quite a bit 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 consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. In case you’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, undoubtedly 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 e book that individuals 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 creator 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 constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume endlessly!

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, nearly something might 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To at the present time, I’m moved by the tales of profound modifications 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 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 every part in our lives, the most effective 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 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 issues are extremely frequent in kids, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for methods to assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run practical labs for his or her kiddos, and now 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 creator 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 every part 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 potential.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered quite a bit from studying this e book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically neglected the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and totally 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 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 a lot of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific 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 oldsters and kids that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina