A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your assortment.
Hello mates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to date! I’m educating a barre class immediately and searching ahead to a juice date with a buddy.
For immediately’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 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 curious about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Woman Tan’s Circle of Ladies) and this one caught my eye. This guide is concerning the story of Little Flower, who’s offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has sure ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This guide 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 occasions. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks as if every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it should you take pleasure in historic fiction.
From Amazon:
1800s China. Tightly sure 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 offered as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished Fong household, she clings to the hope that someday her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.
Not solely does Little Flower have sure ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does every part in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.
However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each ladies 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 dying. And if Linjing finds out, will she sabotage Little Flower to reclaim her energy, or will she shield her?
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 occurring proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been form of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. In case you’re on the lookout 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 remodeled the lives of tens of millions 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 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 gives us a robust 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 assume ceaselessly!
Louise Hay, bestselling writer, 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 could be healed.” Louise Hay had an excessive amount of expertise and firsthand data 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 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 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 every part in our lives, the most effective and the worst.
Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they’ll carry.
This guide caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and data for learn how to assist youngsters really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! 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 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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide doesn’t imply that I agree with every part he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.
The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. 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 guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors have typically missed 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 along 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 techniques set off a lot 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 youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program gives a protected, smart resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual baby. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, mates: what have you ever learn these days and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina