Gözde Yeşiltaş's Key Ideas from Keep Moving
by Maggie Smith

Summary:

Now you begin to self-nurture. You become the caretaker of your wounds. Kindness replaces cruelty toward yourself.

Actionable Items:

💌 Write a love letter to yourself: Include things you admire about your strength and softness.

☕ Nourish yourself like a child: Schedule cozy time, comforting food, or soft music.

🌼 Start a “tender joy” list: Small daily things that bring you comfort or light.

Summary:

To move forward, you must release what was — not in anger, but in grace. You mourn not just people but the identity and future you imagined.

Actionable Items:

• 🧾 Do a release ritual: Write down what you’re letting go of and symbolically dispose of it (burn, bury, or release in water).

• 🔁 Replace loss with intention: For each thing you let go of, name something new you want to invite in.

• 🔍 Ask: “What does the future me need that the past me resisted?”

Summary:

Reinvention begins with play, curiosity, and daring to dream again. Joy isn’t frivolous — it’s fuel. You start to trust the world again.

Actionable Items:

🎨 Start a joy practice: One intentional moment of beauty or creativity each day.

💃 Try something new: A walk in a new place, a new outfit, a different genre of music.

🌈 Create a “Becoming Me” board: Visual representation of who you’re growing into.

Summary:

Forward is the only direction. Life doesn’t wait. You don’t have to know what’s next — just that you’re not standing still.

Actionable Items:

🪞 Adopt a mantra: “I keep moving.” Repeat when anxious or unsure.

🛤️ Take a micro-step daily: Something small that aligns with your future (email, workout, poem, connection).

✍️ Track your momentum: Write one sentence a day about how you showed up for yourself.

🌅 Morning Check-In

“What do I need to feel grounded today?”

✍️ Journal Prompt

Write one truth you’re ready to accept.

💪 Micro Action

Take one small step forward (emotionally, creatively, physically).

🪞 Affirmation

Say: “I am not stuck. I am becoming.”

🌃 Evening Reflection

“What moved in me today?”