Daring To Take Up Space - Paperback

By Daniell Koepke — writer, clinical psychology doctoral student, therapist in training, and dedicated to mental health, self-acceptance, and recovery from self-destructive patterns.

"Daring To Take Up Space" is her debut poetry collection.

This book begins with a premise that sounds simple and lands like a quiet revolution: you deserve to be here, exactly as you are. Not a future version of you. Not a fixed version, or a smaller version, or a version that has finally figured out how to need less and apologize less and take up less room. The you that exists right now — carrying whatever you're carrying, healing at whatever pace you're healing, still in the middle of whatever you're in the middle of — deserves to be here.

Deserves to feel things fully.

Deserves to be loved without having to earn it first.

Koepke's writing is guided by the belief that healthy vulnerability is a gateway to connection and healing.