An Invitation to Take Up Space

 

AN INVITATION TO TAKE UP SPACE

 

Many of our clients - with, and without eating disorders/disordered eating - worry that they are a 'burden', 'too much' or 'take up too much space'. It's an experience we hear a lot and an experience we work through with many clients who experience this.

 

These feelings can take on many guises: social anxiety; body image; eating disorders and more.

Imagine living life feeling you are 'too much', a 'burden' or that you 'take up too much space'? Imagine how difficult life must be; imagine the impact and consequences of feeling like that and seeing yourself in that way? 

 

The little poem below comes from someone who writes about 'taking up space' and being proud of doing so. The motivational and inspirational poem below is by Annabelle Blythe and is called 'An Invitation to Take Up Space'. We hope you like it as much as we do. 

 

Best wishes,

Alexandra

Talking EDs: Eating Disorder Support Service Scotland 

Glasgow Anxiety and Depression Counselling Services

Glasgow Therapy Rooms

M.H. Well

 

www.eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk
www.glasgowanxietydepression.co.uk
www.glasgowtherapyrooms.co.uk

 

 

 

** AN INVITATION TO TAKE UP SPACE **

 

By Annabelle Blythe

 

I take up space

For all the children

Who have been made to feel small

Be it by peers or parents.

I invite you

To prove them wrong.

 

I take up space

For the women

Who are not given access

To education

To freedom

To a voice.

For you, I speak my truth.

 

I take up space

For all the teenagers

Who want to not be seen

Cowering

Afraid of their own light.

I urge you

To own your fire.

 

I take up space

For the men and women

Too afraid to say no

living overflowing lives

with no room left

to chase what they love.

 

I take up space

for the victims

of sexual assault

as it is easy to move forward in fear

to follow the urge to disappear.

I beg of you

Allow yourself to be seen.

 

I take up space

for those who are demonized

for whom they choose to love.

Love knows only of intertwined souls

And beating hearts

Everything else is irrelevant.

 

I take up space

for the ones with quivering lips

fear in their chest

afraid of undressing their souls.

Be brave, sweet ones.

 

I take up space

for the ones who have tried on so many masks

that they have forgotten

who they really are.

 

I take up space

for the people around me

as it is only by walking fully in my self

that I can hold space

for others to do the same.