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

For Brunswick readers · honest answers

Nobody in Brunswick 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 Brunswick: part of greater Portland Maine, full of people who built a good life on purpose and still feel the pull toward more Which is why the honest answer has to start local, not generic.

🎧 A note for Brunswick readers (audio note)

“This is not a hustle book. It is not toxic positivity.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

Where the line blurs in Brunswick

You've traded wanting more for explaining why this is enough.
You mistake the absence of problems for the presence of purpose.
You love your life and quietly suspect it's living you back.

Steal 90 minutes back

Block ninety minutes this week labeled 'the thing I keep not doing.' Treat it like a dentist appointment — immovable.
Show up with the smallest possible version of the thing (one page, one call, one sketch). Momentum is the actual deliverable.

Your gratitude is real. So is the knock. Open both doors.

The book's third path

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency refuses the two usual endings — get rich or get zen. Instead it argues for a third: keep your gratitude, keep your nerve, and let the two raise each other.

Brunswick Q&A

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.

Does it work as a gift? It's the rare growth book that reads as a compliment, not a hint. The paperback is the usual gift format, and it ships with Prime.

Start with the free sample

Read the opening chapter on Amazon — no purchase needed. The Kindle edition is $0.99, and it's free with Kindle Unlimited.

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

Kindle Unlimited: included · Paperback: $14.99 with Prime · Club questions: the main site.