Perspective
You can pretend to be a kitten. Soft. Cute. Quiet.
But if you are a lioness, you will never stop being one.
Core idea
Suppressing power does not create softness. It creates tension.
Recently, a client came to my studio with a very specific request.
“I have a lioness inside of me, and I want to shut her down. She is too rigid, too angry, all the time. I want to be a kitten instead. Soft and feminine.”
She was not joking.
She was tired of her intensity. Tired of her power. Tired of the way her presence filled the room before she even spoke.
She described her eyes as too intense, her personality as rigid and controlling, her body as stiff. Somewhere along her life path, she learned that this part of her, the lioness, was too much. Too dangerous. Too angry. Too rigid.
Softer in a way that erased her.
Kinder in a way that muted her truth.
Harmless. Convenient. Polite. Acceptable.
If you are born a lioness, no matter how long you pretend to be a kitten, a sheep, or a rabbit, the lioness will still live inside you. She will cry. She will roar. She will disturb you from the inside, asking to be seen.
Suppressing your power is not femininity. It is self-violence.
Many women do not realize that suppressing their power is not the same as being feminine, soft, or kind.
It is self-violence. It is a form of abuse. You are attacking your authenticity.
The lioness is not aggression for the sake of destruction.
This is the energy that makes you visible to the world. And yes, of course we are scared of it.
Many of us were hurt in the past because we did not know how to hold this power. Maybe it hurt others. Maybe it hurt us. Maybe we were punished for it. Maybe we learned that love was conditional on being smaller, quieter, more digestible.
So we put on masks.
The good girl.
The kitten.
The woman who does not take up space.
But the world does not see masks. When we wear them, we become invisible. The world does not respond. It does not open doors. It does not recognize us, because it is not meeting the real us.
With this client, we worked through four private sessions. What she discovered was not that she needed to tame her lioness, but that she needed to stop being ashamed of her.
There was no need to hide her. No need to suppress her. No need to exile her.
Instead, there was an enormous resource waiting to be reclaimed.
Through mindfulness practices, meditations, and acting exercises, we first worked with letting go of the old pain. We allowed her to see the lioness. To hear her. To acknowledge her existence without judgment.
We gave the lioness an image. We found the place in the body where she lives. We gave her a home inside the body instead of keeping her locked outside the door.
She learned how to feel this energy safely. How to connect to it without fear. How to become one with it rather than fighting it.
And only then did we move to the next step, learning how to project this energy into the world in an ecological way. A way that does not hurt others. A way that does not destroy relationships. A way that is grounded, embodied, and conscious.
Key point
We control things because we want to feel safe. Suppression is a form of control. But power does not become safe by suppressing it. Power becomes safe by being integrated.
When your inner lioness is seen, accepted, and respected, she stops attacking from the shadows. She stops erupting as uncontrolled anger, rigidity, tension, or self-destruction. She becomes a source of clarity, leadership, presence, and grounded confidence.
Anger, by the way, does not always go outward. Very often it turns inward into depression, self-criticism, body tension, exhaustion, weight gain, and emotional numbness.
If you recognize yourself here
If you feel like you are not fully living your life,
If you sense a powerful part inside you that feels too much or dangerous,
If your strength sometimes explodes as anger, frustration, or rigidity,
And at the same time you long for softness, fluidity, ease in your body and face,
please hear this.
Softness does not come from shrinking.
Softness comes from safety.
And safety comes from being grounded in who you truly are.
There is always a way to meet your power without being destroyed by it. There is always a way to let your lioness exist without letting her burn everything around you.
When you stop fighting yourself, the world starts seeing you. When you stop hiding, life starts responding. When you allow your lioness to stand beside you, not instead of you, everything changes.
You were never meant to be a kitten if you were born a lioness.
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