Taking up space means your inner happiness and wellness are a priority in everything you do.

Positive news – You can take up space right now without waiting to feel ready. Taking up space is not about entitlement or depletion. It involves giving to yourself and indirectly benefits others in the most authentic way possible.

Taking up space means actively embracing your individuality AND participating in life as an equal.

Joy

Is this a foreign concept to you?

It’s about recognizing and valuing one’s own presence, ideas, and contributions. It’s pursuing goals, ambitions, and engaging in joyful activities. It means letting your quirks shine too. It requires building self worth, confidence, sharpening intuition, and not shrinking to accommodate others.

Taking up space means setting boundaries, meeting one’s own needs, and consulting values before deciding whether to give to others. It equally means respectfully asserting oneself and gravitating towards reciprocal relationships.

Action

You’ll start to notice your increased love for life. If you’re becoming more fun-loving, carefree, yet creative and pragmatic, it indicates you are taking up more space. People will appreciate your energy is more playful.

You can have intellectually stimulating conversations, have an empathetic ear, and inspire others to pursue their dreams. People may also begin to leave because you require reciprocal interpersonal relationships. You’ll be enjoying the moment for what it is: self-possessed.

Opposite

Those well versed in taking up space, you know independence is one of your strengths. You are likely someone who takes charge and prioritizes your needs. You might make the honest mistake of assuming interactions with others mean “my way” or “your way” and a loss of freedom. If you’re interested in stepping out of your comfort zone, your task might be to embrace collaboration.

Joy

Collaboration – whether professional or personal: when one collaborator gives in to another by settling on a less preferential option for the sake of moving forward, everyone loses. Great decisions do not happen from a place of sacrifice. The mutual recognition of the best solution available makes them.

Action

It will entail group activities, respecting others’ autonomy, involving others in the decision process, asking people to share their opinions, wants, and needs, and active listening. It may require cultivating a mindful connection with your values and emotions, not solely intellect.

You will overthink less and have more energy. Those walls that once held you back become boundaries. By creating space for your feelings, you learn to do so for others. People will see your versatility and feel more free around you, which fosters a new richness in your relationships.

Interdependence

We don’t have to lose our freedom and miss out on closeness. Life happens in the grey area, and interdependence is the sweet spot. Whether you know or are discovering how to take up space and collaborate, you can balance.

By inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking the rules, making mistakes, and having fun, you can embrace a beautiful blend of sovereignty and inclusivity. With your unique intellect, action, and vision, you have the potential to further inspire and uplift not only yourself but those around you.