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 just’re having fun with the week thus far! I’m instructing a barre class immediately and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.

For immediately’s submit, 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 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 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 distinguished household. She has certain toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This e book was action-packed – it began off shortly and stored 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 the whole lot is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it in case you get pleasure from historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly certain 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 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 ability related to the very best class of a girl. 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 girls 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 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 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 private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been form of a tough time.) This e book consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. When 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 reworked the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals. It is a e book that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect 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 gives us a strong 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 endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized 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 a substantial 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, remodel 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 wish to share with you the next: Each thought we predict and each phrase we communicate 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 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 are not any limits to what they’ll 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 widespread in kids, and I’m all the time on the lookout for 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 practical labs for his or her kiddos, and still 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 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 value 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 wish to hold 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 partaking/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered lots from studying this e book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have typically ignored 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 together 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 exceptional Therapeutic Program is an modern biomedical method 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 gives a secure, smart resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina