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 thus far! I’m educating a barre class at the moment and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For at the moment’s submit, 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 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been excited 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 sure ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This guide 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 occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like every part is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when you take pleasure in 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 bought as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the outstanding Fong household, she clings to the hope that sooner or later her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not solely does Little Flower have sure ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a girl. 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 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 current difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s rather a lot occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been sort of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. In case you’re in search of 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 thousands and thousands of individuals. This can be a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational guide 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 best way 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. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you assume 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, virtually something could 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 recognized 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 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 prefer to share with you the next: Each thought we expect 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 imagine that everybody, myself included, is liable for every part in our lives, the very 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’ll 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 in search of new insights and knowledge for the way to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers 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 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 price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with every part he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to hold 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 components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized rather a lot from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically missed 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 foundation 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 problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of scientific success, this program gives a secure, wise answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is finally inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina