![]() ![]() Trust that I’m here – and even if you don’t I’ll have other people interceding on your behalf’.” “God saw the plight I was in and wasn’t going to ‘ding’ me for it, He was like ‘hang on, I’m here. That faith did come under fire in his lowest moments, Zachary admitted, “but fortunately I don’t think God really cares about that”. “I was a little kid but I knew that there was a God, that God loved me and that God wanted me to be an actor,” Zachary said. “The irony is that my mother never wanted to be anything like her mother and then, because she had all this unhealed trauma, she ended up being exactly like her mother.” Trusting That God Was With Himĭespite his environment, at four years old, Zachary had a sense God was there with him. ![]() “ was a really incredible woman: intelligent, charming, talented, beautiful and had so much possibility,” Zachary said, “but was herself a victim of a tremendous amount of psychological abuse at the hands of her mother. Throughout Radical Love Zachary talks about how his own Christian faith has been an anchor point to understand the ideas of love and forgiveness through – a faith he ironically inherited from the same mum who traumatised him. In his debut memoir Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others, Zachary talked about his history with depression, anxiety and trauma and how his continued recovery from them inspired his mission to help people heal their inner worlds – and with that, to heal the whole world.Ībove: Zachary Levi in a scene from ‘Shazam!’ – Source: Movie publicity “And I definitely did not, because I didn’t even know there was anything to take care of.” Source: Supplied / Jeremy Cowart “Mental illness, it shows a little bit in your 20s, but it’s really not until you get into your late 30s and your 40s that it rears its ugly head if you’ve not taken care of it,” Zachary told the UNDISTRACTED podcast. The trauma he had swept under the rug from a childhood coloured by an abusive mother and absent father-figure erupted, and, no longer able to “white-knuckle” his way through, Zachary landed in an intensive therapy retreat that compelled him to face the pain he had been fearing. In his late 30s, Zachary experienced a mental health decline unlike any before. Maisel, and as the lead character in DC’s Shazam! among many other projects. How do you think the world would change if loving others was the undercurrent of our conversations and the intention behind all our social interactions?Īmerican actor Zachary Levi has gained fans across Broadway, television and film, appearing in the hit NBC series Chuck, The Marvelous Mrs.
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