The Banquet Is Set. Are You Hungry Enough to Receive It?

Stop begging for crumbs when your soul ordered a feast.

There is a table set in your honor.

Linen-draped. Candlelit. Glorious.
Dripping with everything your heart has ever whispered for—and a few miracles so beautiful your mind hasn’t even known to ask for them yet.

But before you sit…
Before you accept that full-body YES…

There’s a reckoning that must happen.

Because so many of us—rebels, healers, world-shakers—are still out here nibbling on scraps.

We’ve grown accustomed to hustling for crumbs.
We’ve spiritualized scarcity and called it surrender.
We’ve normalized struggle and called it strength.
We’ve wrapped ourselves in humility so tight it’s cut off our circulation.

We say things like “I’m just grateful for what I have.”
(As if more would make us greedy.)

We defer our desires to someday.
(As if patience is the same as poverty.)

We tone it down, shrink it back, take pride in needing little.
(As if needing nothing is a badge of honor rather than a trauma response.)

But beloved…

There is no moral superiority in self-denial.

There is no revolution in starving yourself of joy, abundance, intimacy, ease, or support.

You’ve prayed. You’ve prepared. You’ve put in the sacred sweat equity.

You’ve written the business plan, yes.

But you’ve also tended the vision, rewired the nervous system, softened the inner critic, and let yourself be cracked open by a bigger truth.

And now?
Now it’s time to receive.

Not just metaphorically. I mean actually—right here, right now—in your body, in your business, in your breath.

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Let’s talk about what receiving looks like in the wild.

I recently had a massage with a brand-new therapist. She said, “I’ve never had anyone respond to a massage the way you do—especially a first-time client. You just melt completely and let me do all the work.”

That’s receiving.
Not trying to manage the experience. Not clenching. Not proving my worth.
Just surrendering.

Then there was the friend whose whole family came down with COVID. I sent them a little sumptin’ sumptin’ so they wouldn’t have to worry about food.

They didn’t deflect or minimize. They didn’t say “you didn’t have to do that.”
They said thank you.
That’s receiving.

At a business conference a few months back, I received compliments on my hair, my tattoos, my words. And instead of hot-potatoing them back with a “You too!” I smiled and said, thank you.
That’s receiving.

Even the way I breathe has changed.
I’ve started every breathwork practice by filling the back of my lungs first—before the front.
It’s a subtle shift, but it’s profound.
That, too, is receiving.

And let me be clear—
I’m not perfect at this.

But receiving is the number one skill I practice every day.
More important than any funnel.
More valuable than any algorithm.
More potent than any marketing strategy.

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Are you ready to receive as audaciously as you’ve prepared?

Are you willing to unclench the fist that once grasped for survival
and open it like a chalice to hold overflow?

Receiving is not passive. It is not delicate.

Receiving with audacity means showing up hungry.
Willing to feel your appetite.
Willing to take up space.
Willing to taste all of it—the risk, the beauty, the decadence, the glory.

You are not here to audition for worth.
You are here to feast.

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Reflection Questions

🍷 What part of you still believes crumbs are safer than the feast?
🍷 Where are you playing small with your desires out of fear of being “too much”?
🍷 What would radical, embodied receiving look like today—in your inbox, in your calendar, in your bank account?

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PS: In Shaneh’s World, we don’t beg for crumbs.
We feast with grace, with audacity, and with deep devotion.
Your profit is your protest.
Your receiving is your revolution.
And we are just getting started.

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Song of the Day: Muse III (Transfiguration) by Nathan Lanier