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 just’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m educating a barre class as we speak and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For as we speak’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest 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 total roundup:
February 2025 Reads
The Lotus Footwear
I’ve been focused on Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Woman Tan’s Circle of Girls) and this one caught my eye. This guide 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 proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper courses. This guide was action-packed – it began off shortly and stored the identical tempo, which made it simple 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 suggest 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 lady, 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 very gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very 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 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 shield her?
You Can Heal Your Life
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 lots occurring proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been form of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is filled with constructive 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 hundreds of thousands of individuals. This can be a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the affect that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.
On this inspirational guide by the late world-renowned bestselling writer 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 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 suppose ceaselessly!
Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re keen 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, 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 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 communicate 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is liable for every part in our lives, one of the best and the worst.
Affirmations are like seeds that you just plant and anticipate to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they will convey.
Therapeutic the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Bronchial asthma, and Allergic reactions: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Issues
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 how you can assist youngsters really feel their best possible. (About half of my shoppers are kids! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run useful labs for his or her kiddos, and still have kindly unfold the phrase about my providers as an IHP2. I’m so grateful, and have discovered that I completely adore working with youngsters.)
The writer 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 price 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 wish to maintain an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as doable.
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 may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered lots from studying this guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors have typically missed the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought of 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 trendy 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 problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s outstanding 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 protected, wise answer that’s individualized to every youngster to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of fogeys and kids that can encourage you to vary the lifetime of your individual youngster. Hope is finally inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn these days and cherished?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
