Sharing the books I read in January 2025 and if I’d recommend adding them to your collection.
Hi friends! How are you? I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Ours was packed with fun events and this week, the kids are home from school for Rodeo Break. We’re going to enjoy some local adventures and I’m getting the finishing touches together for my new program, which launches next week. Stay tuned!!
For today’s post, I wanted to share a recap of the books I read last month and if I’d recommend adding them to your collection. I was suprised by how my I enjoyed all most all of these and am happy to have found a bit of my reading mojo again in between studying for IHP3.
January 2025 reads
I saw this recommended online and downloaded it immediately. I listened to the audio version, which I highly recommend, and can tell I’ll come back to it and listen often. This book is based on the power of wealth consciousness, teaching that true abundance starts from within. It includes themes of quantum physics, gratitude, and visualization, and the author shifts the focus from external wealth accumulation to cultivating a mindset of prosperity, joy, and purpose. This is for anyone who wants to change their relationship with money and manifest a life of abundance.
This book transformed the way I think about a lot of things, including time, energy, presence, and even death. (He said that the spirit doesn’t fear death, but the ego does.) It was interesting because I feel like many of these more woo/manifestation books lack an emphasis on God. This book was surprisingly God-heavy in a way that truly resonated with me. It made me feel more confident in my purpose, the things I geniunely want for my life, and shifted my focus to an abundance and gratitude mindset, which is always appreciated. 10/10 recommend.
From Amazon:
It’s Not Just About the Money
True wealth is not about buckets of cash. True wealth is not about designer clothes. It is not about a new Mercedes. It is not about living in a palatial estate. True wealth, asserts David Gikandi, is about discovering value within yourself and value within other people. It is about a kind of conscious living that incorporates gratitude, a belief in abundance, and the experience of joy.
Based on the recent discoveries of theoretical physics and a close reading of inspirational classics of the last century, Gikandi creates a new model for the creation of personal wealth; a new model that shows readers how to create abundance by saving, giving, offering charity, and building happy relationships.
It’s interesting that I read this book at the same time as A Happy Pocket Full of Money, because they complemented each other extremely well and had some similar themes. This book challenges conventional beliefs about vision and eyesight. The author makes a very valid point that we believe every other organ and muscle in the body has the ability to heal, except for eyes. We’re just supposed to accept the fact that we have poor eyesight, and stand by idly as it dimishes over time.
He argues that vision problems are more than just physical, and that emotional and energetic imbalances play a role in how we see the world. Trauma and limiting beliefs can affect eyesight as a protective mechanisms (we don’t want to “see” the things that have happened to us, or we’re protecting ourselves from the outside world.). This book includes practical exercises, deep insights, and encouragement for readers to reconnect with their natural eyesight.
My eyesight has already improved since I started reading the book, and I was unintentionally using some of his strategies over the past year. When I had my eye issues, I couldn’t wear contacts for many weeks and I stopped wearing my contacts and glasses for studio workouts. Everyone around me went from looking like colored blobs to eventually humans 😉 My prescription has already been changed once and I can tell that my current glasses are too strong for me.
If you have an open mind and are curious to learn more, definitely check it out. 10/10
From Amazon:
This revolutionary new look at vision will broaden your understanding of how you see and how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses.
Take Off Your Glasses and See shows you how to free yourself from the crutch of prescription lenses, to build your self-confidence and awareness, and to open up your inner and outer vision in order to see more clearly.
Jacob Liberman, an internationally recognized authority on holistic vision care, explains how most vision problems are the result of an unconscious decision to “close your eyes” to emotional discomfort or pain, and how increasingly powerful corrective lenses only encourage eyesight to withdraw even further. By removing lenses and practicing breath- and movement-awareness techniques to shift your perception, you can reintegrate the original disruption in the mind/body system. Dr. Liberman’s approach can help you join the thousands who have escaped from the self-defeating cycle of poor vision.
It had been a while since I’d read some engrossing fiction, and this was just what I needed. I had loved The Midnight Library by the same author, and absolutely loved it, and this one was no different. This book is about the story of a widow who is left a house in Ibiza by one of her long-time friends, who was more of an aquaintance. She travels there to find out the circumstance behind her friend’s mysterious death and ends up learning much more about the island and herself. I loved the fantasty elements of the story, and while it dragged a bit towards the end, I enjoyed it. 8/10
From Amazon:
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, thisis a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
I’ve been a fan of Dr. Aviva Romm forever, and have tried and loved a couple of her supplements. This book is a thorough deep dive on hormones; how they function, hormonal symptoms, and lifestyle choices that impact hormones. It also explores hormone imbalances and options to heal naturally. This book is packed with strategies for balancing hormones, improving fertility, reducing stress, and optimizing overall well-being. While it was more of a recap for me, I think it could be a fantastic intro to anyone who is looking to support their hormones. The recipe section at the end is worth the purchase alone! Lots of beautiful and vibrant recipes. 8/10
From Amazon:
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So, tell me, friends: what did you read recently that you loved?? Do you have a reading goal for this year?
xo
Gina
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