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 thus far! I’m instructing a barre class right this moment and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.

For right this moment’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR record. 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 excited by 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 outstanding household. She has certain ft 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 stored the identical tempo, which made it straightforward 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 every thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it should you get pleasure from 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 someday 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 ability related to the very best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does every thing 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 loss of life. 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 rather a lot occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been form of a tough time.) This e-book consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive affilmations. When 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 remodeled the lives of hundreds of 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 assume endlessly!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, virtually 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 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 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 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 chargeable for every thing in our lives, the very best and the worst.

Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the ability 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 issues are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m at all times searching for new insights and knowledge for how one 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 useful 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 youngsters.)

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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e-book doesn’t imply that I agree with every thing he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.

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 elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized rather a lot from studying this e-book. 7/10

From Amazon:

Medical doctors have usually ignored the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought of 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 basis of the issue. They’ve discovered that fashionable toxins, dietary deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities, and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal techniques set off a lot 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 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 secure, smart answer that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual baby. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn these days and liked?

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina