Rhyanna Watson

From Survival to Sovereignty: Be the Lion 🦁💛

In my last post, I opened up about the shift I’ve been making—from doing and pushing, to softening and listening. From high-intensity everything to meeting myself where I am.

But healing, real healing, isn’t just physical.
It’s also mental.
It’s nervous system awareness.
And it’s learning which thoughts are worth chasing—and which ones are just bones.

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Let me share something that’s been living rent-free in my mind lately:

🦴 The Story of the Lion, the Dog & the Bone

Imagine you have a bone in your hand.
Across from you sits a dog. You wave the bone around—left, right, up, down—and the dog follows every movement. Eyes locked, tail wagging, fully captivated by the bone. You throw it across the room? The dog sprints after it, without hesitation.

Now imagine a lion is sitting across from you.
You wave the same bone. The lion may notice the movement… but it doesn’t react the same way. It sees you. It doesn’t chase. It chooses.

That bone? That’s your thoughts.
Your triggers.
Your patterns.
Your old stories.

Most of us have been trained—by trauma, by stress, by culture—to live like the dog. Reacting. Chasing. Trying to please, trying to prove, trying to stay safe.

But healing?
Healing is becoming the lion.

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And lately? I’m learning to stop chasing every thought, every fear, every inner critic.
To pause.
To choose.
To remember: I am not my thoughts—I’m the one watching them.

Whether it’s health anxiety, body shame, fear of not being enough, or the constant pressure to “do more”…
those are just bones being thrown.

And I’m learning to stop chasing them.

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🌀 Instead, I move gently.
🧘‍♀️ I meditate with compassion.
💛 I rest—even when it feels rebellious.
📖 I read. I learn. I listen to my nervous system.
And I breathe. A lot.

If any of this resonates, check out my last post [here](insert link or say “scroll back”)—I shared some tools and practices that are helping me regulate, soften, and reconnect with the truth underneath the noise.

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So here’s my gentle nudge to you today:

✨ Be the lion.
✨ Don’t chase every bone.
✨ You get to choose what’s worthy of your energy.

Let your nervous system exhale.
Let your inner world be led by sovereignty, not survival.

I’m walking this with you. Still healing. Still weird. Still here. Still cheering for you.

What thoughts have you been chasing that you’re ready to put down?

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