How to want more without feeling guilty for new moms: honest answers for Awbrey Butte

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Nobody in Awbrey Butte sets out to drift. It happens in a season of good-enough — the commute, the calendar, the comfortable sameness — and then one Tuesday you realize you've been coasting on autopilot.

And this is Awbrey Butte: a Pacific Northwest community where comfort is well-earned — and where a comfortable routine can quietly become the whole story That's the terrain — now for the honest line through it.

🎧 A note for Awbrey Butte readers (audio note)

“Gratitude and growth can coexist.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

The pattern Awbrey Butte knows by heart

Comfort arrives as a reward, stays as a routine, and leaves as a regret — usually in that order.
You keep upgrading the life and forgetting the liver of it.
You've outsourced wanting to the next purchase, the next trip, the next anything.

A two-list honesty practice

List A: what I truly love about my life right now. List B: what I've stopped attempting.
If List B makes you defensive, that's the entry point — pick the smallest item and give it 20 minutes this week.

Being thankful for today and honest about tomorrow is not a contradiction — it's the whole assignment.

The size and the density

At 239 pages it respects your schedule without ever feeling thin — essays tight enough for a commute, deep enough that Awbrey Butte readers keep whole paragraphs taped to mirrors.

Fast facts for Awbrey Butte readers

Why is it only $0.99 on Kindle? To make the decision easy. It's free with Kindle Unlimited, and the $14.99 paperback is the same book in a format you can gift.

Can I get it for free? Yes — it's free with Kindle Unlimited, free to sample on Amazon, and $0.99 to own on Kindle without a membership.

One chapter tonight, one change this week

Start free on Kindle Unlimited, or own the Kindle edition for $0.99 — the paperback ($14.99, Prime) is the one people pass to a friend.

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency — book cover Kindle — $0.99 Paperback — $14.99

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