A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your assortment.
Hello mates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m instructing a barre class immediately and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.
For immediately’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR listing. 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 Footwear
I’ve been excited by Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Girl Tan’s Circle of Ladies) and this one caught my eye. This e book is in regards to the story of Little Flower, who’s bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has sure ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This e book 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 ability of resilience, even when it looks like the whole lot is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely advocate it for those who get pleasure from 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 bought 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 ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a ability related to the very best class of a girl. Resentful of her skills, Linjing does the whole lot 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 beneficial 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 loads happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been sort of a tough time.) This e book contains mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. In the event you’re on the lookout for 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 tens of millions of individuals. This can be a e book that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence 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 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 way in which you suppose endlessly!
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 may be healed.” Louise Hay had a substantial amount of expertise and firsthand info to share about therapeutic, together with how she cured herself after being recognized 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 today, 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 era, 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 chargeable for the whole lot in our lives, the perfect 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’ll convey.
This e book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely widespread in kids, and I’m at all times on the lookout for new insights and data for how you can assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are kids! 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 children.)
The creator of this e book, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d completely skip this e book. It’s additionally price mentioning right here that simply because I learn this e book doesn’t imply that I agree with the whole lot he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to preserve 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, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized loads from studying this e book. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs 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 along with his colleagues, have found an answer that goes to the foundation of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy 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 problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an progressive biomedical strategy 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 gives a secure, wise resolution that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual little one. 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
