A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your assortment.
Hello associates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m educating a barre class at this time and looking out ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For at this time’s publish, 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 stoop 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 concerned 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 bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has certain toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This e-book was action-packed – it began off shortly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn shortly – however shattered my coronary heart so many occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like every thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it in case you get pleasure from historic fiction.
From Amazon:
1800s China. Tightly certain toes, 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 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 certain toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does every thing 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 beneficial 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 occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been form of a tough time.) This e-book consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. Should you’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10
From Amazon:
You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of tens of millions 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 provides us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Filled with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose perpetually!
Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, virtually something might be healed.†Louise Hay had a substantial amount of expertise and firsthand data to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being recognized 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 today, 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 prefer to share with you the next: Each thought we expect and each phrase we communicate creates our future. Life is admittedly 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 answerable for every 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 will carry.
Therapeutic the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Bronchial asthma, and Allergic reactions: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Issues
This e-book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely frequent in kids, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for the best way to assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers 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 companies as an IHP2. I’m so grateful, and have discovered that I completely adore working with youngsters.)
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 thing 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 potential.
The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and medicine. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered lots from studying this e-book. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs have typically neglected 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 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 issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s exceptional Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary 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 little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn currently and cherished?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina