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 pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m instructing a barre class in the present day and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For in the present day’s publish, 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 curious 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 sure toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This e book was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn shortly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks like every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it if you happen to get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 sure 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 loss of life. 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 rather a lot happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort of a tough time.) This e book consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. When 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 remodeled the lives of tens of millions of individuals. This can be a e book that folks 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 best way that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she provides 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 suppose without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something will 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 recognized 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 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 era, 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 expect and each phrase we communicate creates our future. Life is absolutely 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, the most effective and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will carry.

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 find out how to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run purposeful 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 children.)

The writer of this e book, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d 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 little thing he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to preserve 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, detoxing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized rather a lot from studying this e book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have usually 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 remedy 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 basis 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 revolutionary biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical success, this program provides a protected, smart resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is finally inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina