Why was I feeling these things when I only had the best intentions?

I was doing my best to put myself and my wants aside so I could be the kind of mother and wife I wanted to be.

So why were those very things suffering?

Because I was living what I thought was a pretty selfless life.

Yeah. what I thought was a pretty selfless life. Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about

progress made practical.

If you are a bookworm, then you know that when you read more than one book at a time,

or even just a few books close together, the book sort of talk to each other.

I have found that this is also true with my coaching clients.

Similar themes tend to pop up with clients around the same time.

Themes that, to me, act as threads that knit us together as women pursuing progress in a world

that pushes against that very thing.

Earlier this year, it seemed like each one of my clients was grappling with something good

but complicated.

The desire for more. But with that desire also came the fear

of more, the question of more, the practicality of more too. I witnessed a lot of my clients

resist this desire, assuming it made them ungrateful or selfish for the life they already had.

I saw others repress it, leaning to resentment and criticism within their relationships.

And still others who knew something was lacking, but they didn't quite have the courage nor the

awareness to know what.

Over and over, each client had to face a fact, it's good to want more.

As I worked through the many complexities that both validating and valuing the desire for more

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