Time to Press the Reset Button

When I react from a place fraught with anxiety

and heavy-leaden exhaustion.

When anger, frustration, and thick frenetic energy courses through

my body and mind, leaving me breathing hard, and tight as

if I had just run a marathon, top speed through

the seven gates of hell.

When I can’t stand to think, read, engage, or ground.

When that becomes my existence, my life, my scraggly mood than

I know that I need to press my Reset Button.

My Reset Button reminds me that I’m able:

To experience and not think

To listen and not speak

To allow time to play and laugh with glee

To rest and not judge

To connect with the trees, water, fire, and land

To leave worry and self-doubt behind

To Just Be

I just pressed the Reset Button…I can breathe!

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©words and photo: Alexis Rose

Thank you for reading my books: If I Could Tell You How It Feels, and Untangled, A Story of Resilience, Courage, and Triumph