i was looking through old questions and it freaked me out that i found someone else ith the same experience...i used to be anorexic. for around 2 years my weight was my main concern...calories,excersize,even when my family had started to notice...yea i was getting BAD. But anyways, i JUST found soome else on Y!A who had the same thing! they used to be anorexic and after becoming wiccan they stopped! ( i just thought it was amazing) THE QUESTION: did wicca effect you in any big way like this? something i've realized is most wiccans are extremely fun and lively people, they arn't as unhappy (NOT because of magick like silver ravenwolf would have you believe)but because they have found a religion with loving deities and no fear tactics...also they live life to the fullest and when you do that self-denial like anorexia seems horrible!!!!
blessed be!
2007-12-30 14:46:49 · 14 answers · asked by darkangelic174 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Honestly, I've been Wiccan since I was a young adult, and I honestly can't say which improvements of the type you're discussing in my life are a result of Wicca and which are a result of growing up.
2007-12-31 04:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before I became Wiccan, I wasn't spiritual at all. I grew up in a Jewish family, where I was taken to Hebrew school once a week, only to be taught things that I didn't even believe in. Eventually, when I was Bat Mitzvah'd, I was able to make my own decisions because I was considered an adult in the Jewish community. From the moment I finished reading in front of family and friends, I felt free to believe what ever I pleased. I knew I believed in some sort of God, but for a long time, I was very confused. In November '06 I started cutting myself and having suicidal thoughts, and in December '06 I was hospitalized for a suicide attempt. In the hospital, we had a group therapy session about spirituality. I shared my story, and I learned that religion could very much help me to heal. It helped that we learned about religions that year in History. I believed in magick already, but when I discovered Wicca as a spiritual path, there was just some sort of jolt in my heart, combined with the most beautiful voice I've ever heard (I'm positive it was the Goddess) saying, "It's perfect." And it always has been. How has it affected my life? It has taught me to love and take care of myself, to love and care for others, including the environment. I now listen to those I trust more and more each day, because those people are my God and Goddess trying to communicate with me to tell me the truly right thing to do. Wicca has helped me to stop cutting and I no longer have the desire to kill myself because of the love I gained from the God and Goddess and, most importantly, myself.
2007-12-30 17:39:07 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the main thing I learned is tolerance for others & everyone's opinion even the ones I don't agree with or particularly like simply because of the stigma associated with any non-Christian religion. Acceptance could definitely be in there as well.
I also had an experience where I was hurting myself, but I think through the study of Wicca, a religion of love and not persecution is what helped me through my hard times.
2007-12-30 15:03:18 · answer #3 · answered by musicalrain0623 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Before Wicca I was pretty much consumed with just hatred for people that have done some pretty awful things to me in the past two years. After I started reading more and accepting some of the basic tenets of Wicca, I feel like it made me more peaceful. Don't get me wrong, when I think too much about these things and people I still get mad, but it doesn't blow up into an all-consuming, rage focusing on revenge and retribution like it used to. It saved my sanity.
2007-12-30 14:56:03 · answer #4 · answered by ultraviolet1127 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am so much happier since I became Pagan.
However, I have met many Pagans who take their zest and joy for life and love of the Goddess to the extreme. Too many wine cakes, blessed bread, and food to ground have enlarged some of my friends to the size of 300 and more pounds.
Finding gods and goddesses who fulfill you is wonderful - but I think we all should find some kind of balance. Getting away from the fear that lead to anorexia is no reason to become a glutton, in my opinion. (I am not saying you are, I just fear for my friends and some other Pagans I have met.)
2007-12-30 15:00:03 · answer #5 · answered by amemahoney 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not Wiccan but what the hey.
When I found my Gods, and namely one Goddess in particular, I felt home- at peace. I took more joy in my life, things seemed more beautiful, smelled better, tasted better.
I felt within myself the power to change my life and the life of others for the better.
2007-12-30 16:04:50 · answer #6 · answered by MiaOMya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you have a direct experience of the God, of being cherished, delighted in, and so utterly loved just as you are, it breaks the shackles of eating disorders and addictions, just like that. Wicca led me to the point where I had that experience.
It's enriched my life in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. It's right for me.
2007-12-30 17:22:58 · answer #7 · answered by Alexandra L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MerryMeet!
I certainly enjoy the Effect all these other answers are having on me!
Personally though, it`s knowing that I can use the Power of Free Will for myself, and others, to produce changes on many different Levels.
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2007-12-30 18:19:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what i took away with me from wicca was a far greater tolerance for most things in the world. I no longer hate as indiscriminately as i once did.
2007-12-30 14:53:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wicca has brought beauty, connection, and spiritual fulfillment into my life. And I agree about living life to the fullest and not denying ourselves what is good. :-)
Blessed be to you also.
2007-12-30 14:53:39 · answer #10 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋