A roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your assortment.
Hello buddies! How are you? I hope that you just’re having fun with the week to this point! I’m educating a barre class at this time and searching ahead to a juice date with a buddy.
For at this time’s publish, I’m sharing a roundup of the books I learn in February and if I’d advocate including them to your TBR listing. 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 all in favour of Chinese language historic fiction (LOVED Woman Tan’s Circle of Girls) and this one caught my eye. This guide is concerning the story of Little Flower, who’s offered as a muiazi (maidservant) to a outstanding household. She has sure ft and is gifted in emboirdery, that are two traits sometimes reserved for the upper lessons. This guide was action-packed – it began off rapidly and saved the identical tempo, which made it simple to learn rapidly – 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 advocate it when you take pleasure in historic fiction.
From Amazon:
1800s China. Tightly sure 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 offered 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 ladies 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 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 current difficult days and helped me shift my mindset. (I haven’t shared a lot on the weblog, however there’s loads happening proper now on the private entrance. Everyone seems to be wholesome, however it’s been form of a tough time.) This guide contains mantras and workouts for shaping your ideas to affect your actuality, and is full of constructive affilmations. Should you’re on the lookout 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 thousands and thousands of individuals. It is a guide that individuals credit score with profoundly altering their consciousness of the impression 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 best way 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. Stuffed with constructive affirmations, this sensible guidebook will change the best way you suppose eternally!
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 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 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 converse 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, the perfect 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 aren’t any limits to what they will convey.
This guide caught my eye as a result of these 4-A problems are extremely frequent in youngsters, and I’m all the time on the lookout for new insights and knowledge for the way to assist children really feel their very best. (About half of my shoppers are youngsters! I’ve had constructive outcomes with their dad and mom, who’ve gone on to run purposeful 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 children.)
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 hearken 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 elements might completely use an replace with present therapies, however I completely discovered loads from studying this guide. 7/10
From Amazon:
Docs have typically neglected 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 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 trendy 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 problems, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and untold mysteries.
Dr. Bock’s exceptional Therapeutic Program is an modern biomedical strategy that has modified the lives of greater than a thousand youngsters. Drawn from medical analysis and primarily based on years of scientific success, this program provides a protected, wise resolution that’s individualized to every little one to assist treatment the basis causes. Dr. Bock additionally shares the dramatic true tales of oldsters and youngsters that may encourage you to vary the lifetime of your personal little one. Hope is ultimately inside attain.
So, inform me, buddies: what have you ever learn currently and cherished?
Any new historic fiction that you just’ve loved?
xo
Gina
