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

A Mineola edition · from the book

Some nights in Mineola the house is quiet, the kids are fine, the job is good — and you lie awake because something in you is still knocking. This is about opening the door.

And this is Mineola: a Nassau County-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday Which is why the smallest next step beats the biggest someday.

🎧 A note for Mineola readers (quick listen)

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

The signs that land hardest in Mineola

You describe your life with gratitude and your days with a sigh — and both are true.
You've gotten very good at maintaining things, and you can't remember the last thing you built.
The idea of wanting more feels almost embarrassing, like admitting the life you have isn't enough.

Borrow a stranger's courage

Find one person in Mineola doing something you quietly admire. Text or email them one specific question about how they started.
You're not asking for advice — you're letting their answer pull the thread you've been avoiding.

Contentment is a place to stand, not a place to sit down for a decade.

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.

Mineola Q&A

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.

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.

Read the book your own Tuesday is about

Start a free KU sample tonight or grab the $0.99 Kindle edition — and let Lindsey Nasser finish the sentence this page started.

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