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

Colchester, VT · between grateful and growing

Ask a Colchester 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 Colchester: a community in the Burlington VT orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot It's the local texture that makes the stakes feel real, not rhetorical.

🎧 A note for Colchester readers (press play)

“Gratitude and growth can coexist.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

What autopilot feels like from inside

Sunday night dread that isn't about Monday — it's about the next decade looking identical to the last one.
You cheer for other people's growth stories a little too hard, a little too close to home.
You keep 'meaning to' things you've actually been avoiding.

Try this tonight (5 minutes)

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

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

How book clubs use it

Book clubs keep reporting the same thing — the discussion questions in the back start arguments in the best way, and someone always confesses they've felt 'grateful and stuck' for years.

The Colchester FAQ

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.

Is this aimed at women? It's written with a broad, warm voice that lands strongly with women 30-60 — book-club favorite territory — and plenty of husbands keep borrowing it.

The cheapest honest mirror you'll buy this year

Kindle $0.99 (free with Kindle Unlimited) · paperback $14.99 with Prime — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency is the whole argument, not just the hook.

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