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What does it mean?
The speaker questions if she is the predator, feeling more like the victim.
In plain terms
Am I the hunter or the hunted?
What can you take from it?
Identity can be ambiguous in conflict.

Where it applies

  • feeling hunted
  • conflict situations
  • power dynamics

Putting it to work

  • assessing roles
  • seeking safety
  • understanding power

Questions to consider

  • Who holds power here?
  • How do you see yourself?

Another view

Sometimes the hunted becomes the hunter by necessity.

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