Refuse to be Prey

Have you ever felt like you were being chased by lions? The stress in your life may have started as just a sound echoing across the wind, confusing your sense of direction. Perhaps it seemed too far away at first to pay much attention. But then the hairs on the back of your neck started to rise and your fight or flight or freeze response kicked in. You could feel the growls through your rib cage, kicking your heart and adrenaline into gear.

You might’ve tried to tell yourself that it was all in your imagination, but then again you could feel the vibrations in your feet. Not just one or two things to worry about, but an entire pride, surging through the perimeter you’d established to keep problems at a safe distance. Your breathing came so hard and fast that it almost drowned out the sounds of the growls getting closer and closer.

You were being attacked by one of the greatest predators in the food chain.

If you’re anything like me, you might’ve curled into the fetal position, trying to protect the most sensitive organs and just endure until they passed you over for better prey.

I’ve spent far too much time being prey. I’m ready to turn the tables and start chasing the lions.

That’s where this blog comes in. It’s for you – and most definitely for me – to take some inspiration from people who refuse to be prey. Teachers, people with chronic illness, people with mental health issues, first responders. People who get up every morning to the echo of growls on the wind, who are rocked to sleep by the pounding of paws on the terrain, who step into the world with armor locked firmly in place and set out to chase a lion or two.