Last Friday, July 25th, at 8:30PM, our Tribe gathered for one of our most powerful traditions:

Sacred Theater.

After some playful warm-ups, each of us stepped into the circle to offer a 2-minute sacred performance of our choosing.

It’s mandatory.

It’s vulnerable.

And it’s one of the safest, most joyful spaces you’ll ever stand in.

This year, I went first—to lead the way.

Recently, I got some tough but loving feedback from a men’s group I’m in:

“You apologize too much.”

At the root of that habit was a deep fear that my love, my fire, my gifts… might hurt people. Might drive them away.

It mirrored a lesson I was given five years ago from a Shaman:

Stop apologizing for love.

So I knew my Sacred Theater had to center on this very edge—the place I most need to grow.

But I didn’t know how to express it.

So I did what I do.

I took a walk. With the wise, wild, wonderful Jennie.

She asked me one question that cracked it wide open:

“How do you think people feel… when you apologize for loving them?”

Boom.

That was it.

So I stood in the circle. I explained my intention.

Then I turned to each person and said:

“I’m sorry for loving you.”

And each person responded—just a sentence or two—describing how it felt.

And what I learned?

It hurt them.

My emotional system thought I was protecting people by dimming my light, by softening the edges of my love.

But that withdrawal? That hiding?

It was hurting people. Over and over again.

What a revelation.

What a sacred moment of growth, held by a Tribe that doesn’t flinch, doesn’t shame, doesn’t run.

This… is why we do Sacred Theater.

To stand raw and real.

To grow in front of each other.

To shine. Even trembling.

Where are you still apologizing for being you?

Let’s light the sacred fire today.

Let’s go.

—Jason