Zachary Levi
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Actor and authorZacharyLevijoins Jameela this week to share his incredible mental health journey. They discuss his painful childhood and how generational trauma is passed down, Zachary's initial hesitation to take anti-depressants and the conversations which changed his mind, why love is truly the answer the world needs, and more.
Check out Zachary Levi's book - Radical Love - wherever books are sold!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of IWave's Jermida Jameil, a podcast against shame. |
| 0:04.8 | How are you? |
| 0:06.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm excited because today's episode is fucking brilliant. |
| 0:11.6 | I have the excellent, excellent Zachary Levi on this podcast opening up in the most standing |
| 0:18.6 | way I've heard someone do so in a really long time. |
| 0:21.7 | It's such a great chat that I left feeling so energized and wanting to tell absolutely |
| 0:27.0 | everyone about the conversation I just had. |
| 0:29.6 | From the messages I'm already getting from all of you, it seems to be that you feel the |
| 0:32.9 | same way. |
| 0:33.9 | There's so much helpful, tangible, unpretentiously put information in this episode. |
| 0:39.2 | It's such a warm chat and he's just so honest and real. |
| 0:42.6 | We discuss generational trauma. |
| 0:44.6 | We discuss therapy, introspection. |
| 0:46.9 | We talk about hormonal depression, which I didn't really know a lot about and how Zach |
| 0:51.1 | has finally become comfortable talking about medication and taking medication. |
| 0:56.0 | We talk about how love can really be the answer the world needs, which sounds really cheesy. |
| 1:00.3 | I didn't really know exactly what the fuck he was talking about when he talked about love |
| 1:04.4 | because I don't really understand it because it's a very abstract concept for me and for |
| 1:08.5 | many people in the world. |
| 1:09.5 | I think it means something different to each of us, but his definition of what it means |
| 1:13.6 | to him is really stunning and I loved it. |
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