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

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Nobody in New Albany sets out to drift. It happens in a season of good-enough — the commute, the calendar, the comfortable sameness — and then one Tuesday you realize you've been coasting on autopilot.

And this is New Albany: a Columbus-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday Which is exactly the kind of setting where comfort is easiest to mistake for closure.

🎧 A note for New Albany readers (spoken version)

“Ambition is not ingratitude.” — 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.

The New Albany walk test

Take a 20-minute walk through your neighborhood and narrate, out loud if you can, what you'd build or change if comfort wasn't in charge.
Whatever you said first — that's your thread. Pull it gently for seven days.

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

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.

New Albany Q&A

Why is it only $0.99 on Kindle? To make the decision easy. It's free with Kindle Unlimited, and the $14.99 paperback is the same book in a format you can gift.

What's the one-line takeaway? 'Grateful' and 'growing' were never opposites — and the moment you pick both, the guilt goes quiet.

One chapter tonight, one change this week

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There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency — book cover Kindle — $0.99 Paperback — $14.99

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