#9: Jarrett Babincsak - From Hunting to Healing: A Wide Lens on Masculinity

In this episode I interview my good friend Jarrett Babincsak. I’m particularly pleased with this podcast because of the ground that we covered. We start out by discussing how we initially met, which was through our passion for hunting and the outdoors. We then cut into the meat of the conversation where we discuss starting a journey of self-awareness and healing, dealing with old wounds and traumas, being affected by anxiety, depression and suicide and finding support in transforming and releasing old baggage in order to reconnect with our true nature, specifically as men.

Some topics that we cover:

• Hunting as a Spiritual Pursuit
• Hunting and Conservation, protecting wild animals and wild places for those still “within the womb of time” (full Teddy Roosevelt quote below)
• Being open to changing your mind/beliefs, growing and evolving
• Connecting to our Essence to unwind the false personality
• Starting a journey of self-awareness and healing to reclaim our Essence
• Acknowledging, identifying and taking responsibility for transforming trauma and releasing baggage
• Finding outlets and support as men for being vulnerable and giving voice to what needs to be felt, processed or resolved
• Depression, anxiety, suicide and social stigma around mental/emotional health & wellbeing
• Living with trauma response patterns far after the traumatic events have ended
• Having compassion for ourselves where we come up short
• Reconnecting with our true nature / inner child
• Finding and creating supportive containers to do this type of work 

 

Jarrett's Article In Outdoor Life: https://www.outdoorlife.com/alone-together-father-son-hunting-story/

Full Theodore Roosevelt Quote that Scott butchered in the show:

“Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the ‘the game belongs to the people.’ So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”