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 associates! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m instructing a barre class at the moment and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

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 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been concerned 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 outstanding household. She has certain ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This e book 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 occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if the whole lot is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it should you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain ft, 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 outstanding 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 ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does the whole lot 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 defend her?

You Can Heal Your Life

This was extremely advisable 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 loads happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been type 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 on the lookout for 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 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 way in which that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she presents 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 suppose without end!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified 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 an excessive amount of expertise and firsthand data 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, rework and empower the lives of so many individuals.

To today, 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 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 predict and each phrase we converse creates our future. Life is admittedly 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 chargeable for the whole lot in our lives, the perfect 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 aren’t 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 at all times on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for assist children 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 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 creator 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 the whole lot he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to preserve an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

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

From Amazon:

Docs have typically ignored the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought of autism medically untreatable and completely 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 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 method 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 presents a protected, wise answer that’s individualized to every youngster 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 youngster. Hope is eventually inside attain.

So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn currently and cherished?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina