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

Local reading · Pleasant Grove

Somewhere in Pleasant Grove tonight, someone will close the laptop on a full inbox, look around a house they truly love, and think: this is it, isn't it? That thought deserves an honest answer.

And this is Pleasant Grove: a community in the Provo-Orem orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot Which is why the honest answer has to start local, not generic.

🎧 A note for Pleasant Grove readers (in her voice)

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

The quiet signals you'd only admit here

You laugh when people call you 'settled' — not because it's wrong, but because it's accurate.
You defend your routine passionately when anyone suggests changing theirs.
Your to-do list is full of upkeep and empty of ambition — and you know the difference.

The Pleasant Grove walk test

Take a 20-minute walk through your neighborhood and narrate, out loud if you can, what you'd build or change if comfort wasn't in charge.
Whatever you said first — that's your thread. Pull it gently for seven days.

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

How book clubs use it

Book clubs keep reporting the same thing — the discussion questions in the back start arguments in the best way, and someone always confesses they've felt 'grateful and stuck' for years.

What people in Pleasant Grove keep asking

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.

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

Take the ten-second decision

Kindle $0.99 is less than the coffee you'll read it over. Free on Kindle Unlimited, $14.99 in paperback with Prime — and the first chapter is free right now.

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

Kindle Unlimited readers read it free · Prime gets the paperback to you fast · Discussion kit on the main site.