Reset Seasons (eBook)

How to Refresh Your Mind at Life's Turning Points

Mostafizar Rahman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | 1. Auflage
456 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-111652-8 (ISBN)

Infos

When life changes gear, your mind often stays stuck in the old mode.

A new job. A breakup. Migration to a new country. Becoming a parent or caregiver. Losing someone you love. Hitting midlife and suddenly wondering, 'Is this it?'

Most of us try to push through these turning points with the same mindset, the same habits, the same expectations. Then we blame ourselves when we burn out, feel numb, or quietly fall apart.

Reset Seasons is a practical, compassionate guide to refreshing your mind when life enters a new chapter. Blending psychology, storytelling, and simple exercises, Mostafizar Rahman offers a framework called R.E.S.E.T. to help you:

Recognize which life season you're really in

Examine the old 'scripts' that no longer fit (like 'I must be strong for everyone' or 'Rest is for the weak')

Simplify your priorities so you don't drown in expectations

Establish tiny daily rituals that calm your nervous system

Track and tweak your habits without perfectionism or guilt

Across eighteen chapters you'll walk through real-life scenarios of people navigating:

burnout and overload

grief and invisible losses

student and early-career pressure

caregiving and parenthood

migration and identity shifts

midlife doubt and deep questioning

relationship changes, breakups, and starting over

This is not a book that tells you to 'just think positive' or 'hustle harder.'
It's a book about learning to live by seasons, so you can stop fighting yourself and start walking with more honesty, clarity, and kindness-no matter what life throws at you next.

If you're tired of trying to be endlessly 'strong' and ready to build a gentler, wiser way of being with your own mind, Reset Seasons will show you how to begin again.

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Preface

 

On a rainy Tuesday in late October, Lina sat at her small kitchen table, staring at an email that should have made her feel proud.

“Congratulations! We’re delighted to offer you the position…”

This was the job she had dreamed of for years. Better pay, meaningful work, a manager who seemed kind. Friends sent confetti emojis. Her parents called and said, “See? We always knew you could do it.”

But when the call ended and the kitchen went quiet, Lina felt…exactly the same.

The same knot in her stomach.
The same voice whispering, “You just got lucky. They’ll find out you’re not good enough.”
The same habit of opening social media and comparing her life with everyone else’s.

Outside, everything had changed. Inside, almost nothing had.

You may have had your own version of this moment.

You moved to a new country, but carried the same loneliness.
You left a toxic relationship, but kept the same fears into the next one.
You survived a crisis, but your body still behaves as if the danger is happening right now.
You became a parent, a graduate, a manager, a spouse — yet felt like a scared child playing a role.

That strange gap between outer change and inner change is what this book is about.

Life doesn’t just move forward — it changes seasons

We don’t live one long, straight line. We live in seasons.

A season of learning and exams.
A season of first jobs and small apartments.
A season of love, partnership, and maybe parenting.
A season of migration, loss, illness, or financial struggle.
A season of midlife questions and “Is this all there is?”
A season of aging, slowing down, and thinking about legacy.

Each season brings its own climate — new responsibilities, emotions, and questions. Yet most of us walk into new seasons carrying the exact same inner settings we had in the last one.

We bring student-level expectations into a burnout season.
We bring “prove yourself” into a season that actually needs rest.
We bring childhood wounds into adult relationships.
We bring survival habits into a time when we’re finally safe.

No wonder we feel confused, exhausted, or “stuck”, even when good things are happening.

This book calls these moments reset seasons: turning points when life changes gear and your mind urgently needs an update.

This book is your reset manual

I didn’t write this book for people who have everything figured out.

I wrote it for you if:

• You’re standing at some kind of crossroads — graduation, breakup, new job, new country, new baby, closing a business, caring for a parent, starting again after loss.
• You keep telling yourself, “I should be happy” or “I should be over this by now,” but your body and mind aren’t listening.
• You’re tired of repeating the same emotional patterns in different situations.
• You sense there must be a gentler, clearer way to move through change, but nobody ever taught you how.

This is not a book of big dramatic transformations where someone changes everything in one weekend and becomes a shiny new person.

Real change is slower, kinder, and more practical than that.

RESET SEASONS is a collection of small, doable tools to help you:

• Understand the season of life you’re actually in — not the one social media says you should be in.
• Notice the old stories and habits you’re carrying into this season.
• Simplify your focus so you’re fighting fewer, smarter battles.
• Build tiny daily rituals that calm your nervous system and keep you grounded.
• Walk through life’s turning points with more clarity instead of pure panic.

You won’t find “Just think positive!” here. You will find sentences like, “Of course you’re overwhelmed. Your brain is doing its best with old instructions,” followed by, “Let’s gently update those instructions.”

The R.E.S.E.T. Method

To keep things simple, this book revolves around one central framework: the R.E.S.E.T. Method.

You’ll see it again and again, applied to different situations and seasons.

• R – Recognize your season
  Where am I really? Is this a season of learning, building, caring, surviving, or letting go? What is realistic for this time?
• E – Examine your inner script
  What am I telling myself about this season? Where did those beliefs come from? Are they helping or hurting?
• S – Simplify the battle
  Instead of trying to fix your whole life at once, we choose a small number of priorities and tiny habits that actually fit your energy.
• E – Establish gentle rituals
  Short, repeatable practices — breathing, journaling, check-ins, digital boundaries — that give your mind a familiar place to rest.
• T – Track and tweak
  No perfection. Just noticing what works, adjusting what doesn’t, and slowly building a new internal setting for this season.

Think of it as a menu you can return to whenever life changes direction. You don’t need to remember every insight. You just need to remember one word: RESET.

What you’ll find in these pages

The book is divided into four parts:

Part I – Why Your Mind Needs a Reset

We’ll explore why life seasons matter, how the brain reacts to change, and what happens when we drag old scripts into new realities. You’ll see that your reactions are not “you being weak” — they’re your nervous system trying to protect you with outdated information.

Part II – The Reset Toolkit

Here you’ll learn each step of the R.E.S.E.T. Method in detail. You’ll map your current season, uncover your strongest inner stories, design tiny habits, and learn how to protect a small “inner space” in a loud, busy world.

Part III – Resetting Through Life’s Key Seasons

This is the most story-filled part of the book. We’ll walk through real-life scenarios: students and early careers, love and partnership, parenting and caregiving, migration and starting over, crisis and loss, midlife redirection.

In each chapter, you’ll see how someone in that season uses the R.E.S.E.T. framework, and then you’ll get practical exercises to apply it to your own situation.

Even if a chapter doesn’t match your life exactly, you’ll notice the feelings are familiar: fear, comparison, guilt, grief, hope. Human emotions speak a similar language across cultures and contexts.

Part IV – Living the Reset Lifestyle

Finally, we’ll talk about designing a life that allows gentle resets instead of violent breakdowns — monthly and yearly rituals, a 21-day any-season reset practice, and a closing chapter that invites you to write a new relationship with change itself.

This book and your story

A quick, honest note.

This book cannot guarantee that your problems will disappear.

It cannot promise that your relationship will definitely be saved, that your exam will go exactly as planned, that your immigration papers will be approved, or that you will never feel anxious again.

What it can do is help you suffer less from unnecessary mental chaos in the middle of whatever is already hard.

It can help you:

• Spot when an old story is driving your decisions.
• Take a breath before you answer that message, sign that contract, or quit that job.
• Treat yourself like a human being in transition, not a machine that must never slow down.
• Notice moments of quiet strength you usually ignore.

If you are looking for a magic formula, this book will disappoint you.

If you are willing to take small, honest steps — writing a few lines, pausing for a few breaths, adjusting one habit at a time — then this book can be a companion, not a judge.

How to use this book

You don’t have to read RESET SEASONS in one sitting (please don’t). Change happens in conversation, not in a single lecture.

Some suggestions:

• Read slowly. One chapter at a time is enough. Let ideas sit with you for a few days.
• Write in the margins. Underline sentences. Argue with them. Add your own examples. This is your book, not a museum piece.
• Keep a small notebook nearby. Many chapters end with exercises and reflection prompts. They don’t need to be perfect or poetic. One honest sentence is more powerful than one hundred “deep” ones you never write.
• Skip ahead if you need. If you’re in a crisis, you’re allowed to jump straight to the chapter on crisis and loss. If you’re a student, maybe you start with that chapter. This is a toolkit, not a strict curriculum.
• Return in every new season. My hope is that you won’t read this book once and forget it. I hope you’ll keep it somewhere reachable and open it whenever you sense, “Something is shifting again.”

A quiet agreement

Before we begin, I want to offer you a small agreement — not between you and this book, but between you and yourself.

It goes like this:

“When life changes, I will not bully myself for feeling confused or scared.
I will remember that transitions are natural, that my brain is trying to protect me, and that I am allowed to reset.
I will take small steps. I will give myself time. I will let this season teach me, not just crush me.”

If you’re willing to say...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• ISBN-10: 0-00-111652-5 / 0001116525
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-111652-8 / 9780001116528