Contentment, in a Smaller Kitchen

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Kate Strickler

Naptime Kitchen creator Kate Strickler invites us to step down from the scroll‑wheel carousel of comparison and rest in a more grounded kind of contentment. In “I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy,” she tackles the daily murmurs of “I love my life, I just wish ____” with soft clarity and practical wisdom.

Rather than attacking dissatisfaction head‑on, Strickler reframes it. She writes about transforming longing for a bigger, cleaner kitchen into gratitude for the lively messes of family life — and trading marriage frustrations for appreciation for seeing your spouse fully. Her gentle shifts tip the balance from envy to connection, encouraging small, real‑world changes — from listing the traits you love in your partner to reorienting routine into meaning.

This approach clearly resonated — her debut is already hitting big, landing on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, and debuting at #2 on PW’s hardcover nonfiction list and #2 on ECPA’s Christian nonfiction bestseller list.

As Strickler puts it: “I set out to fight the lies that what I had wasn’t enough, and I discovered simple perspective shifts that ultimately helped me fall in love with the life staring me in the face”