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

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Ask a Cave Creek 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 Cave Creek: a Phoenix-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday And that's the backdrop for everything this page is actually about.

🎧 A note for Cave Creek readers (short audio)

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

If three of these sound like your week

The highlight of your Sunday is planning a Monday you're not excited about — and you tell yourself that's maturity.
You have a beautiful life on paper and an unopened question in your chest.
You've stopped making plans that require you to become someone slightly new.

The gratitude / growth ledger

Two columns on paper: 'What I'm grateful for' and 'What I'm pretending not to want.'
You don't have to act on column two today. You just have to stop hiding it from yourself tonight.

You can grieve nothing about your life and still feel the pull toward more. That pull isn't ingratitude. It's direction.

The voice you're hearing in this audio

Lindsey Nasser writes the way a sharp friend talks: direct, funny, allergic to hype, generous with the parts of the story most books skip. The result reads like permission rather than pressure.

What Cave Creek readers want to know

Is it good for a book club? Very — discussion questions come with it, and the 'where have you confused gratitude with settling?' prompt alone powers an hour.

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

One chapter tonight, one change this week

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