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 thus far! 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 put up, 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 total roundup:

February 2025 Reads

The Lotus Shoes

I’ve been thinking 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 offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has sure ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and stored the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if all the things is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it if you happen to get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 distinguished 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 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 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 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 lots occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been type of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. In the event you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10

From Amazon:

You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. This can be a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.

On this inspirational guide 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 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 way in which you assume eternally!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, 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 could 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 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 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 predict 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is liable for all the things in our lives, the most effective 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 will deliver.

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 at all times searching for new insights and knowledge for how you can assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run useful labs for his or her kiddos, and now 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 creator of this guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might completely skip this guide. It’s additionally value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with all the things he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to maintain 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 drugs. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized lots from studying this guide. 7/10

From Amazon:

Docs have typically missed the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought-about 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 basis of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal programs 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 progressive 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 gives a protected, smart answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina