How to get motivated when life is comfortable for new moms: honest answers for Wheaton

Nobody in Wheaton sets out to drift. It happens slowly: a comfortable rhythm, a grateful heart, and then one day gratitude quietly became a reason to stop growing. This page is about how to get motivated when life is comfortable for new moms — and finding your way back to both thankfulness and momentum.

And this is Wheaton: a Chicago-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday. Which is exactly why this question lands differently here than anywhere else.

The giveaways of grateful-but-stuck

• You say 'I'm blessed' and 'I'm bored' in the same breath — and mean both.
• You've started romanticizing a version of yourself that used to want things.
• Your gratitude practice has quietly become a list of reasons not to change anything.

Try this tonight (5 minutes)

• Write down one thing you're genuinely grateful for in Wheaton — then write one thing you've been calling 'gratitude' that is actually fear of trying.
• Set a 10-minute timer tomorrow morning and do one small thing your 'more' would do.

The goal isn't to despise the life you have. It's to love it enough to keep growing inside it.

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