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

A guide for Powers · no hustle required

Some nights in Powers the house is quiet, the kids are fine, the job is good — and you lie awake because something in you is still knocking. This is about opening the door.

And this is Powers: one of the Colorado Springs area's most established communities — the kind of place where life looks handled from the outside, which is exactly why the gratitude-versus-settling question lands so quietly here That's the terrain — now for the honest line through it.

🎧 A note for Powers readers (voiced excerpt)

“This is not a hustle book. It is not toxic positivity.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

The line, as it appears most days

You're not waiting for permission — you're waiting for a crisis that never comes.
Everything is paid for except attention.
You call it contentment in public and 'ugh, is this it?' in traffic.

Ten minutes at the edge

Sit somewhere in Powers 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 can grieve nothing about your life and still feel the pull toward more. That pull isn't ingratitude. It's direction.

Why it reads like being caught

Readers comparing it to their favorite memoir-essays keep landing on the same note: Lindsey Nasser describes the interior of a comfortable stuck life so precisely it feels like being caught, lovingly, in the act.

Powers Q&A

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.

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.

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