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 to this point! I’m educating a barre class as we speak and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For as we speak’s put up, 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 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 total roundup:
February 2025 Reads
The Lotus Sneakers
I’ve been thinking about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Woman Tan’s Circle of Girls) and this one caught my eye. This e 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 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 as if every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it when 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 in the future 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 best class of a woman. 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 girls are solid 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?
This was extremely really useful 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 occurring proper now on the non-public 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 optimistic affilmations. Should you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10
From Amazon:
You Can Heal Your Life has reworked 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 best way that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she presents us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way 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 will be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand data 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 at the present time, I’m moved by the tales of profound adjustments that optimistic 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 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 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 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 searching for new insights and knowledge for the right way to assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had optimistic 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 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 little thing he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to hold an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.
The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized so much from studying this e book. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs have typically 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 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 issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an modern biomedical strategy 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 presents a secure, smart answer that’s individualized to every little one 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 individual 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
