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 thus far! I’m educating a barre class in the present day and searching ahead to a juice date with a pal.
For in the present day’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 Healing 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 Shoes
I’ve been excited about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Lady Tan’s Circle of Women) and this one caught my eye. This book is in regards to the story of Little Flower, who’s offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a distinguished household. She has sure 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 simple 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 every part is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it in case you get pleasure from historic fiction.
From Amazon:
1800s China. Tightly sure 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 offered as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the distinguished Fong household, she clings to the hope that sooner or later her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.
Not solely does Little Flower have sure toes, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully 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 inventive 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 shield 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 quite a bit occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been form 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. When you’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, positively give it a obtain. 9/10
From Amazon:
You Can Heal Your Life has reworked the lives of hundreds of 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 best way 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 optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose perpetually!
Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help subject. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, nearly something could 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 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 era, 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 expect and each phrase we communicate creates our future. Life is admittedly 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 liable for every part in our lives, the perfect 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 are not any limits to what they will convey.
This book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely frequent in kids, and I’m at all times searching for new insights and data for how you can assist children really feel their best possible. (About half of my purchasers are kids! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their mother and father, who’ve gone on to run useful 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’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 every part he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to maintain an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.
The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few components may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered quite a bit from studying this e-book. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs have typically ignored the connections among the many 4-A problems. For years the medical institution has thought-about 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 foundation of the issue. They’ve discovered that trendy 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 modern biomedical method that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program affords a secure, wise answer that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the foundation causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that may encourage you to alter the lifetime of your personal little one. Hope is finally inside attain.
So, inform me, associates: what have you ever learn recently and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
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