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

For Naugatuck readers · honest answers

The people of Naugatuck aren't ungrateful. They're busy, settled, and quietly aware that 'fine' has somehow become the ceiling. This is about what comes after that awareness.

And this is Naugatuck: a Fairfield County East-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday Which is why real progress here starts with naming the specific, not the abstract.

🎧 A note for Naugatuck readers (short audio)

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

Signs you'd only tell a stranger

You fantasize about a different life for exactly nine minutes at a time, then the alarm goes off.
You've built a beautiful waiting room and called it a home.
Gratitude is real — it's the alibi that isn't.

Ten minutes at the edge

Sit somewhere in Naugatuck you usually pass through — a park bench, a parking lot, a quiet street — and do absolutely nothing for ten minutes.
Whatever your mind keeps circling back to without a screen in front of it is the thing this book would tell you to look at.

You don't have to blow up a good life to build a bigger one. You just have to stop calling the plateau 'peace.'

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.

Fast facts for Naugatuck readers

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.

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.

Pick it up where this page leaves off

The full book goes chapter-by-chapter through the exact line you just felt — Kindle $0.99, paperback $14.99, free on Kindle Unlimited.

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