A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your assortment.
Hello pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having fun with the week up to now! I’m educating a barre class at this time and looking out ahead to a juice date with a buddy.
For at this time’s put up, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR record. After being in a stoop 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 fascinated with 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 certain toes and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This guide 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 instances. 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 suggest it should 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 outstanding Fong household, she clings to the hope that someday 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 the whole lot in her energy to thwart Little Flower’s escape.
However when scandal strikes the Fongs, each girls are solid 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 defend 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 so much occurring proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’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. For those who’re searching 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 guide that individuals 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 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 constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you assume 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 might 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 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 wish 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 consider that everybody, myself included, is accountable for the whole lot 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 ability 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 searching for new insights and data for assist children 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 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 guide, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I might 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 the whole lot he says, or that I consider the identical issues. I wish to hold an open thoughts and take heed to as many viewpoints and experiences as potential.
The therapeutic program that he contains is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, detoxing, and drugs. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered so much from studying this guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors have usually 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 basis 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 outstanding 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 medical success, this program affords a protected, 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 kids that may 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 beloved?
Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?
xo
Gina