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 simply’re having fun with the week to date! I’m educating a barre class at this time and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.
For at this time’s submit, 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 complete roundup:
February 2025 Reads
The Lotus Footwear
I’ve been considering Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Girl Tan’s Circle of Ladies) and this one caught my eye. This guide 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 usually reserved for the upper lessons. This guide 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 facility of resilience, even when it looks like every little thing is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it for those who 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 ability related to the very 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 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 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 quite a bit occurring proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been type of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with optimistic affilmations. If you happen to’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 guide that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression 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 presents us a robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume without end!
Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something could 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 today, I’m moved by the tales of profound modifications 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 de facto 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 little thing 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 facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will convey.
This guide caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely frequent in youngsters, and I’m at all times searching for new insights and data for the best way to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic 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 value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this guide 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 contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, 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 realized quite a bit from studying this guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors have usually neglected the connections among the many 4-A problems. 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 programs set off many of the signs of the 4-A problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s exceptional Therapeutic Program is an progressive biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program presents a protected, wise resolution that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your personal baby. Hope is finally inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn recently and beloved?
Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?
xo
Gina