Podcast Highlight: Lucas Mack

“Any outward correction and healing we can give ourselves starts from an honest inward reflection of what is living inside of us, that needs a voice, that needs to tell the truth, and that needs to be seen and heard.”

Lucas Mack has faced the darkest parts of his past and pain and come out the other side with a mission to help other's do the same.

Lucas was raised in a mixed religious household with a Catholic father and a Jewish mother who decided to practice as an Evangelical. In our interview he says that his life growing up was a lot about religious identity confusion, abuse, control, and fearing consequence from God.

His early life was deeply embedded in the systems of his church, learning fear based faith.  Lucas struggled with anorexia and eventually attempted suicide and could never quite feel the connection most people claim when he would be asked to allow Jesus into his heart. He always wondered why.

He was devoted to his faith, even reading the bible cover to cover seven times in a row in search of answers he could not find. Eventually deciding to go in search of his truth and to finally met God for the first time meant he had to leave religion and the bible behind.

Lucas shares how as he grew into adulthood and on a new path of discovery and inquiry; on the outside the veneer of his life appeared to be flawless. He was successful, on television, had a wife and was set to have his first child.  All the boxes were checked.

When his first child came, a flood of recovered memories flushed in from childhood abuse he had incurred. It wasn't until his second child, a boy who came into the world that these repressed memories and the pain stopped him in his tracks. He talks about how something about having a son, opened up a portal and he could see his abuse through the eyes of his innocent boy and he began mourning what had happened to him.

This is where Lucas' work begins.

Transmuting his pain and suffering, he's made it his life work to help men face their trauma--all of it. From physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse. Lucas is helping men face what happened to them, tell the truth about it, and become free and liberated through the healing process.

Lucas says that he felt empowered by his experiences.

His healing changed the trajectory of his life and lineage.

He says he got to a point in his healing where he realized it was bigger than him and that: "Once and for all, the pain stops with me."  Lucas says he would choose this life over again, he would choose to be the one to close the loop on all the ancestral suffering. 

He tells the listeners that any outward correction and healing we can give ourselves starts from an honest inward reflection of what is living inside of us, that needs a voice, that needs to tell the truth, and that needs to be seen and heard.

Lucas did eventually come to find the warmth of his God, like many of us do on the path of spirituality he found God was there all along. Tucked in the sacredness of our oneness. God is Love. Love is God.

He wants to show men first and foremost how to heal.

Secondly how to change their relationship with societal norms that ask them to show up in really specific ways and transition from presenting as an intimidating force to becoming an open and inviting space for everyone, especially women.

He states, "when men heal, the world can heal."