Hey brothers...I want to put an emphasis on this one... I know it's summer, I know people have a lot going on, AND it's really not that much of a commitment to get on one or two calls a month that are going to be incredibly supportive especially during these times. This is the whole point of community and the power of a space like this. I can tell you that the guys that have come to the last few calls got to experience how potent it is when we come together like that. This weeks call is an important one and likely one that most of us have not had before. It's a super important topic that affects are lives more than anything else in many ways. SHAME...how it's shaped us as men, how it deeply affects our psyche, keeps us small and hidden and addicted to vices, and how most of our identity has been formed from it. In this call we're gonna dive deep into that and then open the floor for some real potent exercises around vulnerability and truth telling. I'll set the stage on that one and share some things I don't think I've ever publicly shared. WHY? because authenticity gets buried from shame and I am choosing to live my life authentically now and for the rest of the way. I really hope to see as many of you there as we can get, participate in your process, dive the fuck in! The freedom we're all looking for is created in calls like these. Sean Graves is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Men's Community Healing Shame Call Time: Aug 20, 2026 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88176858164?pwd=vTa7M63L0Bay99T1Ya3ATL3zE4BhME.1 Meeting ID: 881 7685 8164 Passcode: 841749

Greeting my brothers, checking in. I gave myself an actual vacation and time to completely disconnect last week. I never fucking do that! It felt amazing. I danced my tits off. I've had some big downloads I wanted to share with you. I wrote an article on my recent experience at the music festival I was at where these things really came in. In my ceremonies, my work with clients, retreats...After many years of death and rebirth experiences, I've refined more, created maps for, different ways of navigating when you find yourself in the hell realms or the "basement" of your consciousness. That place of survival mode, all the limiting beliefs, all the feelings of inadequacy, shame, guilt, etc... For us men right now, we have SO many identity deaths occurring because we have chosen to walk this path of becoming aware and desiring the embodied experience of true freedom within ourselves. This intention carries with it the fire of purification that must burn away everything we are not. It's easy to get caught in the trap of taking it personally or going into an unconscious victim mode thinking that life is somehow punishing you or working against you. When in truth it's actually answering your deepest prayer to be free. Free from the programming as children we inherited, free from the unresolved shit from our fathers/grandfathers/great grand dads/ancestors. It's the purge from survival to remembrance and creation. Beyond fear. Check out this article, I wrote it from deep in the heart space and from many years of being on this road. The road your heart leads you down when you're ready to remember again. https://open.substack.com/pub/seanpadraicgraves/p/i-found-my-inner-child-in-a-cage?r=2bq3ow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Greetings, brothers. I wanted to open a conversation around something we explored during the Air Element training: the beliefs, stories and identity structures shaping the way we experience ourselves and the world. We spoke about how beliefs become filters. Over time, repeated thoughts become stories, stories become identities, and those identities begin determining what we believe is possible for our lives. Here’s just a few that I’ve had to deeply examine: - I have to hold everything together for others - My worth comes from what I achieve. - I cannot let people see me struggle. - I am responsible for everyone around me. Many of these identities were built during moments when I needed protection, belonging or approval. They may have served once. Yet as I evolved, the structures that once kept me safe became the very walls keeping me confined. Part of becoming an integrated man is developing the awareness to question the identities we have inherited, performed and unconsciously reinforced. So I invite you to reflect: What belief, story or identity structure are you currently dismantling? Where did it come from? How has it shaped your choices, relationships or leadership? And who are you becoming as you release it? Share whatever feels alive for you below ⬇️ Your honesty may give another brother permission to see something within himself.

Greetings, brothers. I'm not the type of person who shares his life with a bunch of strangers online, but I want to open this with my current mental and emotional state. Apologies for grammatical errors and poor sentence structure — it's been a while since I wrote freestyle like this. I want you to examine my thoughts and call out my bullshit. Help me see something I'm avoiding. Here goes nothing. It's 12:36am. I dropped my son off with his mother at 6pm CST after one day with him, abiding the fucking court order. I fully enjoyed our time together. Going back into my house after — where he was playing, dancing, eating, sleeping, where his toys and clothes still are — is hard. The absence of his presence creates a void, and I'm scared of feeling it. It reminds me how shitty this part of my life is right now. So I sit in my car, watch YouTube, listen to Gene Keys. Find a way to escape, distract, numb myself from that void. I have other coping behaviors too — not healthy ones — that need their own dedicated space and time. Another note, another day. I know I'll see him again soon, but my attachment to my son is primal, deep. It's one of the hardest things to loosen my grip on, but I have to. Not in the sense of giving up on him — in the sense of trusting he'll be okay. My prayer to the Gods and the Universe: bless him, protect his soul, protect his life. May God lighten his path and his journey on this earth. I want to protect him, make sure he's okay, always — but at some point he has to learn his own way, with or without me. I can only do so much. According to fucking Carl Jung, my inner protector is trying to protect my inner child from the outside world. I'm projecting this shit everywhere. It's like my phone's autocorrect — a.k.a. "the protector" — thinks everything's incorrect and starts fixing it before I even asked. That old Swiss man said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." Maybe he was onto something.

Hey brothers, the training from last night is now available to watch inside the classroom. Let us know how it resonates with you!