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

Reader guide · Berthoud, CO

There's a story Berthoud tells about itself — successful, settled, safe. This page is about the sentence after the period.

And this is Berthoud: a Mountain West community where comfort is well-earned — and where a comfortable routine can quietly become the whole story That context matters more than any general advice ever will.

🎧 A note for Berthoud readers (in her voice)

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

The pattern Berthoud 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.

Say the quiet part to paper

Write the sentence you'd never post: what you're actually afraid of about staying exactly as comfortable as you are.
Then write one true, kind thing you're doing about it this week. Keep both halves — that's the balance the book is about.

Gratitude looks backward with warmth. Growth looks forward with nerve. A full life uses both sets of eyes.

The ending that spreads

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

Quick answers, Berthoud

I'm in a good season. Should I skip it? Those are the readers it's most for. It's about keeping momentum through comfort, not waiting for a crisis to start growing.

Does it include discussion questions? Yes. Book clubs get a full set in the back — and readers from Mountain West are already using them monthly.

This page is the appetizer

The full There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency by Lindsey Nasser is the meal — free with Kindle Unlimited, $0.99 to own on Kindle, $14.99 in paperback.

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

Included with Kindle Unlimited · $14.99 paperback via Prime · Questions for your club on the main site.