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 to date! I’m instructing a barre class as we speak and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For as we speak’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR checklist. 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been taken with 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 distinguished household. She has certain toes and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This ebook was action-packed – it began off shortly and stored 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 as if all the things is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it should you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain 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 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 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 dying. 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 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 loads occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort of a tough time.) This ebook contains mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. In the event 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 hundreds of thousands of individuals. It is a ebook that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational ebook 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 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 perpetually!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually something could 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 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 this present day, 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 era, 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 actually 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, one of the best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the facility 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 problems are extremely frequent in youngsters, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for the right way to assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers 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 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 ebook, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might completely skip this ebook. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this ebook doesn’t imply that I agree with all the things he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I prefer to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.

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 loads from studying this ebook. 7/10

From Amazon:

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

Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an modern biomedical strategy 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 provides 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 youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn these days and beloved?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina