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

For Gateway readers · honest answers

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

And this is Gateway: a community in the Fort Myers 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 Gateway readers (short audio)

“There is a fine line between gratefulness and complacency. One brings peace. The other slowly convinces you to settle.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

The Gateway version of fine

You're proud of your routine and slightly bored by it — in the same sentence.
Your five-year plan quietly became a five-year habit.
You'd defend your life to anyone — except in your own head, at 11pm.

A two-list honesty practice

List A: what I truly love about my life right now. List B: what I've stopped attempting.
If List B makes you defensive, that's the entry point — pick the smallest item and give it 20 minutes this week.

You are allowed to love a Tuesday and still not want to live inside it forever.

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.

Gateway readers, briefly answered

Is it another hustle-culture book? The opposite. One of its most-quoted lines is literally 'This is not a hustle book.' It's about honest ambition, not grinding.

Does it include discussion questions? Yes. Book clubs get a full set in the back — and readers from South 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

Read free with Kindle Unlimited · Prime shipping on the paperback · Talk-it-through questions on the main site.