This was so impactful! This conversation needs to be brought to light. And thank you for showing how the culture is harmful in a way that a believing member wouldn’t feel attacked. Very well made!
I had a companion leave due to eating disorder and depression. I still feel complicit in her staying as long as she did. I was senior companion. I should have acted to protect her.
Thank you for sharing your story, Miranda. It is so difficult to talk about a mission like this - the difficulties and sacrifices are almost fetishized in church culture. I love Germany, and I love so many people there, but I'm not grateful for the depression and toxic perfectionism I developed on my mission there. I can't imagine the pain of weight shame and an eating disorder on top of that.
“Health was a major part of that… FOR ME.” Body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and wrestling with perfectionism are just parts of being a female young adult. Having served myself in both the US and Canada, I don’t think this as widespread of an issue as the video makes it, and I don’t think the Church itself contributes to the narrative. This feels very antagonistic. Also, a quote from 1972?!?!
I’m confused by the purpose of this video. Is it trying to say that the church teaches women to be thin? That the culture does? Or that some sister missionaries struggle with eating disorders and we should all be aware of this? I sent this to multiple women I know that served missions and not one of them said they heard any of this. I also researched what the church’s instruction to missionaries was for eating, appearance, and exercise and I found instruction to eat healthy for mental health reasons and to exercise for mental health reasons. But never for “blessings or “praise from god”. In regard to appearance, I didn’t find one section that spoke about body weight. Can someone clarify the purpose of the video? Honestly terrible story telling. Felt like I was watching someone try to make a claim by only telling one side of the story. Which is just dishonest journalism.
The LDS church does a lot of great things around the world. Unfortunately there’s a lot of bad as well. The constant shaming and toxic perfectionism that is widely propagated in LDS culture is a big one. I left for doctrinal reasons, but my mental health improved dramatically just from getting away from the culture.
@LexFerraro I'm sorry but you only believe it's truth but what you have found is not truth don't be like saul and be told that is hard to kick against the picks and fight God
@@magapefarmshomestead6453no. i have found God and Jesus. And have salvation. not the false prophet leading an army to hell, Joseph Smith. it’s you who has none of that if you are LDS.
This was so impactful! This conversation needs to be brought to light. And thank you for showing how the culture is harmful in a way that a believing member wouldn’t feel attacked. Very well made!
I had a companion leave due to eating disorder and depression. I still feel complicit in her staying as long as she did. I was senior companion. I should have acted to protect her.
Naawww sweetie, righteousness and godliness comes from within and not from being thin🦋🧡💙
Thank you for sharing your story, Miranda. It is so difficult to talk about a mission like this - the difficulties and sacrifices are almost fetishized in church culture. I love Germany, and I love so many people there, but I'm not grateful for the depression and toxic perfectionism I developed on my mission there. I can't imagine the pain of weight shame and an eating disorder on top of that.
Lose 500, gain 500? You might want to clarify what that is, or some might get the wrong idea
“Health was a major part of that… FOR ME.” Body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and wrestling with perfectionism are just parts of being a female young adult. Having served myself in both the US and Canada, I don’t think this as widespread of an issue as the video makes it, and I don’t think the Church itself contributes to the narrative. This feels very antagonistic.
Also, a quote from 1972?!?!
I’m confused by the purpose of this video. Is it trying to say that the church teaches women to be thin? That the culture does? Or that some sister missionaries struggle with eating disorders and we should all be aware of this?
I sent this to multiple women I know that served missions and not one of them said they heard any of this.
I also researched what the church’s instruction to missionaries was for eating, appearance, and exercise and I found instruction to eat healthy for mental health reasons and to exercise for mental health reasons. But never for “blessings or “praise from god”. In regard to appearance, I didn’t find one section that spoke about body weight.
Can someone clarify the purpose of the video? Honestly terrible story telling. Felt like I was watching someone try to make a claim by only telling one side of the story. Which is just dishonest journalism.
The LDS church does a lot of great things around the world. Unfortunately there’s a lot of bad as well. The constant shaming and toxic perfectionism that is widely propagated in LDS culture is a big one. I left for doctrinal reasons, but my mental health improved dramatically just from getting away from the culture.
i pray mormons stop leading vulnerable astray.
I pray you see truth
@@magapefarmshomestead6453oh i do. and it’s not this.
@LexFerraro I'm sorry but you only believe it's truth but what you have found is not truth don't be like saul and be told that is hard to kick against the picks and fight God
@@magapefarmshomestead6453no. i have found God and Jesus. And have salvation. not the false prophet leading an army to hell, Joseph Smith. it’s you who has none of that if you are LDS.