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 mates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m instructing a barre class in the present day and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.

For in the present day’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest 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 keen on 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 proficient 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 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 every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it for those who take pleasure in 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 best class of a girl. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every little 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 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 helpful 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 so much happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort 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 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 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 writer 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 gives 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 assume eternally!

Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized 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 a substantial amount of expertise and firsthand info 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 at the present time, 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 expect 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 imagine that everybody, myself included, is accountable for every little thing 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 issues are extremely frequent in youngsters, and I’m all the time searching for new insights and knowledge for learn how to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run purposeful 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 children.)

The writer 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 every little thing 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 attainable.

The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most partaking/enjoable, and a few elements might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered so much 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-about autism medically untreatable and totally incurable, and has restricted ADHD remedy 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 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 issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.

Dr. Bock’s exceptional 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 scientific success, this program gives a secure, smart resolution that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual youngster. Hope is ultimately inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?

xo

Gina