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

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

And this is Northgate: a community in the Colorado Springs orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot Which is why real progress here starts with naming the specific, not the abstract.

🎧 A note for Northgate readers (listen)

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

Where the line blurs in Northgate

You've traded wanting more for explaining why this is enough.
You mistake the absence of problems for the presence of purpose.
You love your life and quietly suspect it's living you back.

Ten minutes at the edge

Sit somewhere in Northgate 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 are allowed to love a Tuesday and still not want to live inside it forever.

What reviewers notice first

Reviewers keep highlighting the same thing: this isn't another get-up-at-5am book. It's a mirror with a sense of humor — one that makes the difference between rest and drift visible without shaming you for either.

What Northgate readers want to know

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.

Can I get it for free? Yes — it's free with Kindle Unlimited, free to sample on Amazon, and $0.99 to own on Kindle without a membership.

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.

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

Kindle Unlimited includes it · Prime delivers the paperback · Group questions on the main site.