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 to date! I’m instructing a barre class right now and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For right now’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 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 complete roundup:
February 2025 Reads
The Lotus Sneakers
I’ve been fascinated about Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Girl Tan’s Circle of Girls) and this one caught my eye. This guide is concerning the story of Little Flower, who’s bought as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has certain ft and is proficient in emboirdery, that are two traits usually reserved for the upper lessons. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it straightforward to learn rapidly – however shattered my coronary heart so many instances. It was a testomony to the facility of resilience, even when it looks like all the things is stacked towards your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it in case you take pleasure in historic fiction.
From Amazon:
1800s China. Tightly certain 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 someday her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.
Not solely does Little Flower have certain ft, unusual for a muizai, however she is awfully gifted at embroidery, a talent related to the very best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does all the things 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 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 shield her?
This was extremely really helpful 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 lots happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, nevertheless it’s been form of a tough time.) This guide consists of mantras and workout routines for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. For those who’re searching for one thing uplifting and peaceable to hearken to, undoubtedly give it a obtain. 9/10
From Amazon:
You Can Heal Your Life has remodeled the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. It is a guide that folks credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the influence 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 presents us a strong 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 suppose without end!
Louise Hay, bestselling creator, is an internationally identified chief within the self-help discipline. Her key message is: “If we’re prepared to do the psychological work, virtually 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 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, remodel and empower the lives of so many individuals.
To this present day, 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 predict 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 chargeable for all the things in our lives, the very best and the worst.
Affirmations are like seeds that you simply plant and count on to develop. I urge you to find the facility of affirmations as there are not any limits to what they’ll deliver.
This guide caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely frequent in kids, and I’m all the time searching for new insights and knowledge for how you can assist youngsters 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 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 youngsters.)
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 all the things he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I wish to preserve an open thoughts and hearken to as many viewpoints and experiences as attainable.
The therapeutic program that he consists of is split into dietary remedy, supplementation, cleansing, and medicine. It wasn’t essentially the most participating/enjoable, and a few elements may completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered lots from studying this guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs have typically ignored the connections among the many 4-A issues. For years the medical institution has thought-about autism medically untreatable and totally 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 methods set off a lot of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s outstanding Therapeutic Program is an revolutionary biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand kids. Drawn from medical analysis and based mostly on years of medical success, this program presents a secure, wise answer that’s individualized to every baby to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and kids that can encourage you to alter the lifetime of your individual baby. Hope is eventually inside attain.
So, inform me, pals: what have you ever learn currently and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?
xo
Gina