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

For Urbandale readers · honest answers

Ask a Urbandale reader what they're grateful for and you'll get a beautiful list. Ask what they're building and you'll get the look this whole book was written about.

And this is Urbandale: a community in the Des Moines orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot It's the local texture that makes the stakes feel real, not rhetorical.

🎧 A note for Urbandale readers (read for you)

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

The giveaways of a grateful-but-stuck life

You say 'I'm blessed' and 'I'm bored' in the same breath — and mean both.
You've started romanticizing a version of yourself that used to want things.
Your gratitude practice has quietly become a list of reasons not to change anything.

The 7-day no-explanations week

For seven days, do one small thing you want without defending it to anyone — including yourself.
Watch what happens to the 'I should be grateful' voice when it stops being cross-examined.

The goal isn't to despise the life you have. It's to love it enough to keep growing inside it.

The size and the density

At 239 pages it respects your schedule without ever feeling thin — essays tight enough for a commute, deep enough that Urbandale readers keep whole paragraphs taped to mirrors.

Fast facts for Urbandale readers

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.

Is it available in audio? The heart of the book is read aloud on this site, and the Kindle version (free on Kindle Unlimited) is perfect for phone reading.

Read the book your own Tuesday is about

Start a free KU sample tonight or grab the $0.99 Kindle edition — and let Lindsey Nasser finish the sentence this page started.

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