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

A Leawood edition · from the book

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

And this is Leawood: part of greater Kansas City, full of people who built a good life on purpose and still feel the pull toward more Which is why the smallest next step beats the biggest someday.

🎧 A note for Leawood readers (press play)

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

The comfort audit that stings a little

You have more routines than rituals, more maintenance than meaning.
Your gratitude journal reads like a maintenance log.
You've optimized your life so well there's no room left for a plot twist.

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 ending that spreads

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

Asked in Leawood, answered honestly

Is this a religious book? No — it's a personal-growth memoir-essay hybrid with universal themes. Readers of any background (or none) quote it the same way.

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.

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

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