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

Newington, CT · between grateful and growing

Some nights in Newington 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 Newington: a Hartford-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday Which is exactly why this question lands differently here than anywhere else.

🎧 A note for Newington readers (audio, ~20 seconds)

“Gratitude and growth can coexist.” — 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.

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.

You don't need a crisis to deserve a change. That's a myth the uncomfortable invented about the settled.

The size and the density

At 239 pages it respects your schedule without ever feeling thin — essays tight enough for a commute, deep enough that Newington readers keep whole paragraphs taped to mirrors.

Before you go — Newington questions

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.

Does it include discussion questions? Yes. Book clubs get a full set in the back — and readers from Northeast are already using them monthly.

For every Northeast reader who nodded too many times

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency says the rest — with humor, warmth, and zero guilt-trip. Kindle $0.99 · free on KU · paperback $14.99.

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

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