Can You Love Your Life and Still Want More?

Can you love the life you've built and still want something different? Does wanting more mean you're ungrateful for what you already have?

As we kick off November's theme, Holding Both, we're exploring the tension between contentment and desire. Wanting something different doesn’t mean you’re dissatisfied with your life; it might simply mean you’re evolving.

This episode gets honest about the pressures of motherhood, self-sacrifice, and the drive to keep achieving. We’re challenging the stories that make you question what you’re allowed to want, and reimagining what “more” might look like when it’s about living more fully, not just achieving more.

Because growth isn’t always about adding. Sometimes it’s about making space for the person you’re becoming.

In this episode, we explore:

Why gratitude doesn't have to become an obligation to stay exactly where you are.
How expectations around motherhood, relationships, and being "good" can make our own desires feel selfish.
The difference between wanting more from self-worth versus striving to prove you’re enough.
Why different seasons of life call for different kinds of growth—including rest, tending, and release.
How redefining more can open the door to greater freedom, creativity, connection, and possibility.
The power of replacing "but" with "and" to hold seemingly contradictory truths.

This episode is for you if you love the life you've built but feel guilty for wanting something different as you continue to grow and change.

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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Beautiful" - India.Arie

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

Chapters

(00:00:53) - Can You Love Your Life and Still Want More?
(00:03:36) - When Comfortable Starts Feeling Like Stuck
(00:05:27) - Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?
(00:07:15) - You Were a Whole Woman Before You Were a Mother
(00:09:42) - Not Every Season Calls for Uprooting
(00:11:26) - Are You Still Dreaming New Dreams?
(00:12:59) - What Does “More” Actually Mean?
(00:16:23) - Are You Growing or Trying to Prove Something?
(00:18:16) - Sometimes More Means Less
(00:19:59) - The Power of And
(00:21:40) - Beautiful, QOTD & Living the Questions

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