Figurative: Surfing the Tsunami

I have dealt with anxiety all my life. I would have reoccurring dreams of a tsunami where I am trying to get up the mountain and I know I won’t make it. I shake myself awake with my heart pounding and I can’t catch my breath. But in 2019 I had the dream, the tsunami is coming, I am trying to make it up the mountain and I realize I can’t make it, but this time, I turn and face the tsunami, jump into it, and body surf it to the top of the mountain. I woke up with my heart pounding for a totally different reason, I made it!