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 simply’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m educating a barre class immediately and searching ahead to a juice date with a good friend.
For immediately’s submit, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d suggest including them to your TBR listing. After being in a hunch 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 by Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Lady Tan’s Circle of Women) and this one caught my eye. This book is concerning the story of Little Flower, who’s offered 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 ebook 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 occasions. It was a testomony to the ability of resilience, even when it looks like every little thing is stacked in opposition to your favor. 10/10- extremely suggest it if you happen to take pleasure in 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 offered as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the outstanding Fong household, she clings to the hope that in the future 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 best class of a woman. Resentful of her abilities, Linjing does every little thing 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 dying. 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 happening proper now on the non-public entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, but it surely’s been form of a tough time.) This ebook contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of optimistic affilmations. In case 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 reworked the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals. It is a ebook that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression that the thoughts has on well being and wellbeing.
On this inspirational ebook 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 best way that limiting ideas and concepts management and constrict us, she provides us a strong key to understanding the roots of our bodily dis-eases and discomforts. Stuffed with optimistic affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose without end!
Louise Hay, bestselling writer, is an internationally recognized chief within the self-help area. Her key message is: “If we’re keen to do the psychological work, nearly something will be healed.” Louise Hay had quite a lot of expertise and firsthand data 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 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 technology, 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 converse 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 accountable for every little thing in our lives, the most effective 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 convey.
This book caught my eye as a result of these 4-A issues are extremely widespread in youngsters, and I’m all the time on the lookout for new insights and data for learn how to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my purchasers are youngsters! I’ve had optimistic outcomes with their mother and father, 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 writer of this ebook, an MD, has some controversial opinions about vaccines, so if that’s triggering to you, I’d completely skip this ebook. It’s additionally value mentioning right here that simply because I learn this ebook doesn’t imply that I agree with every little thing he says, or that I imagine the identical issues. I prefer to preserve 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, cleansing, and drugs. It wasn’t probably the most participating/enjoable, and a few components might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely realized quite a bit from studying this ebook. 7/10
From Amazon:
Medical doctors have usually 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 along 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 techniques set off many of the signs of the 4-A issues, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s exceptional Therapeutic Program is an progressive biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of medical success, this program provides a secure, smart resolution 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, associates: what have you ever learn currently and liked?
Any new historic fiction that you simply’ve loved?
xo
Gina
