My Pet Lion

An excerpt from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

Living with urges that are hard to tame is like living with a lion, I think, when I think about all of the dangerous, self-destructive impulses we humans sometimes have. The urge to drink, drug, smoke, eat too much, whatever — is, for some people, a big, fierce, scary, roaring, potentially deadly animal force, and they live with this and they try to tread delicately around it and to not piss it off or wake it when it’s sleeping. But they always know, in the back of their minds, that it is always there — that this lion, when stirred to life, when hungry, when angry or out for blood, is a terrifying and powerful force, much more powerful than willpower.