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

Bearden · gratitude vs. settling, locally

Ask around Bearden and most people will tell you they're grateful. Ask them what they're building next and the room gets quieter. That silence is the whole subject of this page.

And this is Bearden: part of greater Knoxville, full of people who built a good life on purpose and still feel the pull toward more It's the local texture that makes the stakes feel real, not rhetorical.

🎧 A note for Bearden readers (hear it)

“There is a fine line between gratefulness and complacency. One brings peace. The other slowly convinces you to settle.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

Three questions Bearden readers dodge

What would you try if nobody would ever find out if you failed?
When did you last do something you weren't already good at?
What did you stop wanting — and was it a decision or a drift?

Ten minutes at the edge

Sit somewhere in Bearden you usually pass through — a park bench, a parking lot, a quiet street — and do absolutely nothing for ten minutes.
Whatever your mind keeps circling back to without a screen in front of it is the thing this book would tell you to look at.

You are allowed to love a Tuesday and still not want to live inside it forever.

Why it doesn't feel like self-help

The tone is the selling point: honest about hard things, allergic to hustle-culture clichés, and quietly funny in a way that keeps the pages turning. Lindsey Nasser writes like someone who has lived the exact tension this page describes.

Bearden readers, briefly answered

Do I need to be unhappy to get something from it? No — it's written for people who like their lives and suspect there's more. Gratitude is the starting point, not the problem.

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.

For the reader in Bearden who's ready

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency is the conversation this page can only start. One evening, $0.99 on Kindle (free with KU), and the question stops being rhetorical.

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

Read it free on Kindle Unlimited · paperback $14.99, Prime shipping · Book-club questions on the main site.