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

Reader guide · Beaufort, SC

Ask a Beaufort reader what they're grateful for and you'll get a beautiful list. Ask what they're building and you'll get the look this whole book was written about.

And this is Beaufort: a community in the Hilton Head orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot And that's the backdrop for everything this page is actually about.

🎧 A note for Beaufort readers (in her voice)

“Ambition is not ingratitude.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

The signs that land hardest in Beaufort

You describe your life with gratitude and your days with a sigh — and both are true.
You've gotten very good at maintaining things, and you can't remember the last thing you built.
The idea of wanting more feels almost embarrassing, like admitting the life you have isn't enough.

Try this tonight (5 minutes)

Write down one thing you're genuinely grateful for in Beaufort — 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.

The ending that spreads

It ends with a question, not a checklist — and that question is why readers from South and everywhere else keep sending each other this book instead of just recommending it.

Beaufort Q&A

Is this a religious book? No — it's a personal-growth memoir-essay hybrid with universal themes. Readers of any background (or none) quote it the same way.

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 Beaufort 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

Kindle Unlimited includes it · Prime delivers the paperback · Group questions on the main site.