A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your assortment.
Hello buddies! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to date! I’m instructing a barre class immediately and looking out ahead to a juice date with a pal.
For immediately’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 record. 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 curious about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Girl 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 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 stored the identical tempo, which made it straightforward 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 all the things is stacked in opposition to 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 outstanding 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 very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does all the things 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 loss of life. 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 latest difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s lots happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been sort 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. In case you’re in search of 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 thousands and thousands of individuals. It is a e book that folks 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 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. Filled with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume ceaselessly!
Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, nearly 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 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 prefer 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 imagine that everybody, myself included, is accountable for all the things in our lives, one of the 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 aren’t any limits to what they’ll convey.
This e book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m all the time in search of new insights and knowledge for methods to assist children 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 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 e book, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might 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 all the things he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to hold 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, detoxing, and medicine. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized lots from studying this e book. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors 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 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 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 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 modern biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of scientific success, this program provides 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 fogeys and youngsters that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, buddies: what have you ever learn currently and beloved?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
