A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate 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 educating a barre class at present and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.
For at present’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 record. After being in a hunch with books for some time, and with launching Therapeutic 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 Sneakers
I’ve been concerned with Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Girl Tan’s Circle of Ladies) and this one caught my eye. This e-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 gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This e-book was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks as if every thing is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it if you happen to get pleasure from 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 at some point 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 ability related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every thing 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?
This was extremely really helpful 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 loads occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been type of a tough time.) This e-book contains mantras and workouts 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, undoubtedly give it a obtain. 9/10
From Amazon:
You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of tens of millions of individuals. This can be a e-book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence 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 affords us a robust 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 eternally!
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, virtually something will 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, remodel and empower the lives of so many individuals.
To this present day, 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 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 absolutely 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 liable for every thing in our lives, one of the best and the worst.
Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there aren’t any limits to what they’ll convey.
This e-book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely frequent in kids, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and data for the right way to assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run purposeful 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 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 imagine the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.
The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized loads 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 remedy 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 programs 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 modern biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program affords a protected, wise answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn currently and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
