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

For Pelican Bay: grateful, not finished

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

And this is Pelican Bay: part of greater Naples, full of people who built a good life on purpose and still feel the pull toward more That's why the answer can't be a slogan. It has to be lived.

🎧 A note for Pelican Bay readers (quick listen)

“Gratitude and growth can coexist.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

Read this slowly — it's probably familiar

You're grateful for what you have, and you've quietly stopped reaching for what you want.
Comfort in Pelican Bay is easy to keep and easy to notice too late.
You can't point to a crisis — just a long stretch of fine that's starting to feel like a ceiling.

Try this tonight (5 minutes)

Write down one thing you're genuinely grateful for in Pelican Bay — then write one thing you've been calling 'gratitude' that is actually fear of trying.
Set a 10-minute timer tomorrow morning and do one small thing your 'more' would do.

You are allowed to love a Tuesday and still not want to live inside it forever.

The book's third path

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency refuses the two usual endings — get rich or get zen. Instead it argues for a third: keep your gratitude, keep your nerve, and let the two raise each other.

What Pelican Bay readers want to know

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.

I'm in a good season. Should I skip it? Those are the readers it's most for. It's about keeping momentum through comfort, not waiting for a crisis to start growing.

Worth a dollar and one honest evening

Kindle $0.99, free with Kindle Unlimited, or the $14.99 paperback with Prime shipping. There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency by Lindsey Nasser — written for exactly this moment.

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

Kindle Unlimited: included · Paperback: $14.99 with Prime · Club questions: the main site.