A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate 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 searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For at this time’s put up, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR record. 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 complete roundup:
February 2025 Reads
The Lotus Sneakers
I’ve been excited 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 bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished 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 rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks as if every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it when 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 distinguished 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 best class of a woman. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does every part 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 inventive 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 useful 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 so much occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been sort of a tough time.) This e book contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. Should 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 tens of millions of individuals. This can be a e book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression 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 presents us a robust key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the way in which you assume perpetually!
Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something will be healed.” Louise Hay had an excessive amount of expertise and firsthand info to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being identified 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 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 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 answerable 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 ability of affirmations as there aren’t any limits to what they will convey.
This e book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m at all times in search of new insights and data for find out how to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run practical 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 every part 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 contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most partaking/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized so much from studying this e book. 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 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 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 many of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an progressive biomedical method 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 presents a protected, wise resolution that’s individualized to every youngster 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 personal youngster. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn these days and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
