You Were Never Meant To Shrink
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Last published Sat, Jul 12, 2025
You Were Never Meant to Shrink is a soul-deep poetry collection for anyone who's ever dimmed their light to fit in. Through bold affirmations, tender truths, and lyrical healing, these poems remind you to take up space, reclaim your softness, and grow beyond what tried to contain you.
This is for the dreamers, the feelers, the quiet warriors-
the ones learning that survival is not enough.
You were meant to rise. You were meant to shine.
You were never meant to shrink.
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