“Take Up Space”

For a long time, I thought taking up space meant becoming louder — speaking more, doing more, demanding more. But I’ve come to understand something deeper:

Taking up space means being deeply rooted in who you are, even when no one is watching.

It’s not about stealing light, but about no longer dimming your own.

It’s about allowing your thoughts, your feelings, your values, your softness, your sacredness — to exist without editing yourself into silence. Taking up space is what happens when you stop apologizing for your own presence. When you no longer shrink to fit places that were never built for the whole of you.

It’s in the way you walk into a room and don’t lower your gaze.

It’s in the way you say no — clearly, kindly, and without guilt.

It’s in the way you share your story, not for approval, but because it matters. It shaped you. And your becoming is a form of wisdom.

We’re not here to disappear.

We’re not here to be small.

We’re here to be vessels of truth, of soul, of divine reflection — and that can’t happen if we’re hiding.

So today, take up space. Quietly, boldly, softly — whatever way feels like home to your soul.

Because the world doesn’t just need your voice.

It needs your presence.