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

Reading room · Waukee edition

Some nights in Waukee 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 Waukee: part of greater Des Moines, full of people who built a good life on purpose and still feel the pull toward more Which means the question isn't hypothetical here — it has an address.

🎧 A note for Waukee readers (audio note)

“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 Waukee 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.

Steal 90 minutes back

Block ninety minutes this week labeled 'the thing I keep not doing.' Treat it like a dentist appointment — immovable.
Show up with the smallest possible version of the thing (one page, one call, one sketch). Momentum is the actual deliverable.

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

The book's third path

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency refuses the two usual endings — get rich or get zen. Instead it argues for a third: keep your gratitude, keep your nerve, and let the two raise each other.

The Waukee FAQ

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.

Is this aimed at women? It's written with a broad, warm voice that lands strongly with women 30-60 — book-club favorite territory — and plenty of husbands keep borrowing it.

The five-minute decision for Waukee readers

Kindle $0.99. Free on Kindle Unlimited. Paperback $14.99 with Prime shipping. Choose one and let the first chapter do the convincing.

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

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