Take. Up. Space.

Take up as much space as you want. Be loud. Express yourself. Express yourself loudly.

Do not ever feel ashamed for just being yourself. You are unique, there is not another one of you on this planet. So why not let the world know who you are and be unconditionally yourself!!!

I want you to be loud in the way that you know exactly who you are, and are not ashamed of it. Be unapologetically YOU. Finding and knowing yourself is a self-discovery journey that not everyone gets to experience. If you put in that work, why would you not want to show that off?  

You have no reason not to. Someone doesn’t like you, oh well, they weren’t worth your effort anyway. 

Society has taught us women that we need to be small. That we need to conform as what people want us to be; submissive, thoughtless, weak, all adjectives that describe the complete opposite of us. 

As women our mere presence is so important to society and we know that! So why are we conforming to them? 

I’m gonna say something that a lot of women in their 20’s are not gonna want to hear. You are not “just” a girl. This trend or phase was really funny at first, describing how our hands are always full to using a paycheck for a maintenance day. But now, its demeaning. We are using it as humor to accept and go along with the way society wants us to be. Now “I’m Just A Girl” translates to “I’m brain-dead.”

Sorry. My apologies, but someone had to say it. I understand that it started as a joke that turned into this huge trend so every joke should be taken with a grain of salt, but you can’t tell me that there hasn’t been an influx of young girls having aspirations of being a “Tradwife,’ a “WAG,” or an “Influencer” since the growth of this phrase. 

Which is sad. I get the appeal, it seems like an easy-going life. But it requires you to heavily rely on another person, likely men. If you haven’t noticed their track record, they are not the best people to rely on. There are good one’s, don’t get me wrong, but you can still look for that person while being your own WIFE! 

Being unapologetically yourself doesn’t make you “Just A Girl,” it makes a unique, exquisite being so stop dumbing yourself down and go show the world who you really are. 

Read more on how to embrace your womanhood to take up space here: Womanhood + Taking Up Space- Mel Wiggins

For more advice on embracing your feminine energy read here: Embracing Femininity- Lora Current