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

For right this moment’s put up, 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 interested 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 sure toes and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This e-book 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 like all the pieces is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when you take pleasure in historic fiction.

From Amazon:

1800s China. Tightly sure 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 outstanding 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 toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does all the pieces in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.

However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each girls are forged 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 demise. 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 lots happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type 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. Should 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 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 perpetually!

Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something might 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 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 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 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is accountable for all the pieces in our lives, one of the best 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’ll 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 problems are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for tips on how to assist children really feel their very best. (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 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 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 price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e-book doesn’t imply that I agree with all the pieces he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I prefer to maintain 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, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few components may 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 missed the connections among the many 4-A problems. 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 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 youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program gives a protected, smart 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 can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your personal youngster. Hope is finally inside attain.

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

Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?

xo

Gina