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 this point! I’m instructing a barre class right now and searching ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For right now’s publish, 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 hunch 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 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 sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This e-book was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn shortly – 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 in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it when you get pleasure from 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 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 very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, 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 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 occurring 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 workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. In case you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed 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. This can be 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 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 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 best way you assume perpetually!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something could be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand data 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To today, 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 wish to share with you the next: Each thought we expect and each phrase we converse creates our future. Life is actually 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 accountable for all the things in our lives, the very best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the ability of affirmations as there aren’t 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 issues are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m all the time searching for new insights and knowledge for how you can assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run practical 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 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 all the things he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered rather a lot from studying this e-book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have usually missed the connections among the many 4-A issues. 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 along 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 methods set off many 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 strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical success, this program gives a protected, wise answer that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual youngster. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina