A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your assortment.
Hello pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week to date! I’m educating a barre class right now and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For right now’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR checklist. 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 complete roundup:
February 2025 Reads
The Lotus Sneakers
I’ve been focused on 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 outstanding household. She has sure toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes 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 as if every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it should you get pleasure from historic fiction.
From Amazon:
1800s China. Tightly sure 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 at some point her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.
Not solely does Little Flower have sure toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is very gifted at embroidery, a talent 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 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 current difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s quite a bit happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been sort of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. For those who’re in search of one thing uplifting and peaceable to take heed to, undoubtedly give it a obtain. 9/10
From Amazon:
You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. It is a guide that folks 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 affords us a robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Filled with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume without end!
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, nearly something will 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 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, rework 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 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 actually 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 perfect and the worst.
Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there aren’t any limits to what they will carry.
This guide caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m at all times in search of new insights and knowledge for find out how to assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run purposeful labs for his or her kiddos, and now have kindly unfold the phrase about my companies 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’d 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 prefer to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as doable.
The therapeutic program that he consists of 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 discovered quite a bit from studying this guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs have typically 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 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 methods 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 revolutionary biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical success, this program affords a secure, smart answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and youngsters that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal little one. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn currently and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?
xo
Gina