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

Placitas: the question behind the question

Comfort is not the enemy in Placitas. Numbness dressed as comfort is — and they wear almost identical clothes.

And this is Placitas: a Albuquerque-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday It's also why 'someday' tends to get scheduled for never in places like this.

🎧 A note for Placitas readers (voiced excerpt)

“This is not a hustle book. It is not toxic positivity.” — 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 Placitas 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 Placitas — 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.

The kindest thing you can do for the life you've built is refuse to let it become the last thing you build.

Which kind of reader it's for

There are books that fire you up for a week, and books that recalibrate a decade. Readers describe this one as the second kind — the rare title that gets more useful as your life gets fuller.

What Placitas readers want to know

Does it work as a gift? It's the rare growth book that reads as a compliment, not a hint. The paperback is the usual gift format, and it ships with Prime.

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

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.

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

Read it free on Kindle Unlimited · paperback $14.99, Prime shipping · Book-club questions on the main site.