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

A Peoria edition · from the book

The opposite of gratitude isn't ingratitude. In Peoria, as everywhere, it's autopilot: the cruise control that feels like progress until you check the map.

And this is Peoria: a Phoenix-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 Peoria readers (in her voice)

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

Where the line blurs in Peoria

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.

Try this tonight (5 minutes)

Write down one thing you're genuinely grateful for in Peoria — 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.

Nobody's coming to push you out of a good life. That's why you have to walk.

How it reads

Written with warmth and a sharp eye for the details of ordinary life — school hallways, group chats, Sunday kitchens — the book treats your plateau with respect, and then hands you the keys out of it.

The questions that follow — Peoria edition

Can I read it in one sitting? Most readers do a chapter a night; the book is 239 pages and designed for busy people who read in real life, not ideal life.

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.

Make it tonight's scroll replacement

Trade twenty minutes of scrolling for the first chapter of There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency — free on KU, $0.99 on Kindle, $14.99 paperback.

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