Keep MovingNotes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
Review posted November 27, 2020.
One Signal Publishers (Atria), 2020. 214 pages.
Review written November 6, 2020, from a library book
Starred Review
2020 Sonderbooks Standout:
#4 General Nonfiction
This is a book I wish I’d had when my husband left me and my life was falling apart. But ten years after the divorce was final, these words still encourage me greatly. I expect I will buy copies of this book to give as gifts in case I ever have friends in tough situations where their expectations for what their life was going to be crumble. Even in the present, reading these words keep me moving. I’ll be posting lots of quotes from it on my Sonderquotes blog.
The bulk of this book is inspirational encouragement on each page, finished by the words – on every page – “KEEP MOVING.”
Here’s an example:
Focus on who you are and what you’ve built, not who you’d planned on being and what you’d expected to have. Trust that the present moment – however difficult, however different from what you’d imagined – has something to teach you.
KEEP MOVING.
Here’s another:
You are not betraying your grief by feeling joy. You are not being graded, and you do not receive extra credit for being miserable 100% of the time. Find pockets of relief, even happiness, when and where you can.
KEEP MOVING.
There are three main sections: Revision, Resilience, and Transformation. Within each section, in between these inspirational sayings made to be quoted, we’ve got pages here and there of smaller text, giving us the context of when the author had to deal with loss, in more than one way.
She began this book by writing daily goals for herself as her life was falling apart -- and she kept going.
After writing this review, I decided to buy my own copy so I can come back to it again and again. Every day I'm reading a page to encourage me and keep me moving.