Keep Moving: The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love

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Based on the national bestseller Keep Movingcalled a meditation on kindness and hope (NPR)a 52-exercise journal about hope and renewal from the award-winning poet and author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

As Maggie Smith navigated loss and upheaval, she wrote to herself each dayforgiving herself for a past mistake, reflecting on moments of joy, or looking towards the future, ending each note-to-self with the phrase keep moving.

In her own words, I wasnt offering wisdom from on high; I was talking to myself at the bottom of a dark well, trying to climb up into the light, little by little, day by day. Smith was surprised not only by how uplifting this process was, but also by the outpouring of support and gratitude from thousands of people who found solace in her words.

Through the healing power of writing, Keep Moving: The Journal invites us to find beauty in the present moment, embrace change, and create a life we love.

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"Aphysical reminder to never give up, regardless of the obstacles life hands [us]."
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Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.