January 2025 reads

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

A Happy Pocket Full of Money

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.

Take Off Your Glasses and See

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