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 educating a barre class right now and searching ahead to a juice date with a pal.
For right now’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 droop 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 Footwear
I’ve been taken with Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Woman Tan’s Circle of Girls) and this one caught my eye. This guide is concerning the story of Little Flower, who’s bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has certain ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper courses. This guide was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved the identical tempo, which made it simple 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 the whole lot is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when 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 bought 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 ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does the whole lot in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.
However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each ladies 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 defend her?
This was extremely advisable 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 private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been sort of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. In case you’re on the lookout for one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, undoubtedly 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 guide that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.
On this inspirational guide 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 provides us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed 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, virtually something may be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot 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, remodel 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 era, 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 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 liable for the whole lot 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 will convey.
This guide 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 knowledge for how one can assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, 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 children.)
The creator of this guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might completely skip this guide. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with the whole lot he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.
The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized rather a lot from studying this guide. 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 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 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 progressive 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 provides a secure, wise resolution 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 may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual baby. Hope is ultimately inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn currently and beloved?
Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?
xo
Gina
