#adhd witches

[sagittariuswitchery]

Inside the Witch’s Library: Mundane Magic by Molly Donlan

A few weeks ago I found myself at a loss. I am an ADHD witch who lives in a small space with my partner, who has diagnosed OCD. I’m sure you can imagine the challenges that brings 😅

So I came here for a little advice. My magical practice has continuously enriched & enhanced my life in all ways, so I figured someone on this site with hearth magic expertise might have some advice for me. Thus, Mundane Magic entered my life (I’d like to thank @our-marvel-universe again for this book rec).

This book has a great introduction explaining ADHD thought patterns and why certain tasks might be more difficult for folks with brains wired like mine. Off the jump, Donlan suggests adding novelty to mundane tasks to “trick” the brain into having more fun, and using the Moon & Earth cycles to keep track of deep-cleaning chores.

The rest of the book is broken up into sections based on different areas of a typical Western home. There are spell ideas, but what I love the most were the ways of adding magic/whimsy/novelty to home-keeping tasks. While nothing I read was revolutionary, just the information being organized in this way has had me reaching for this book almost daily since initially reading though it.

Yes, there are spell ideas, but what really resonated with me was the information on how certain areas of the home could influence my magical life. The bed, for example, I hadn’t realized could make me feel stuck or groggy in the mornings if it wasn’t being regularly energetically cleansed. A simple solution for me was a magical cleansing pillow spray I made and have been using daily, in between weekly washes.

This book has really helped me decontextualize cleaning and has helped the magic in my home flow with less restrictions. And I can feel the spiritual benefits! My hearth spirits have been much more lively, and I’ve felt their involvement in my daily chores too, helping me out.

I’m really grateful I found a resource like this, from a mundane perspective and a magical. I highly recommend this book for other ADHD witches or anyone who’s learning to keep a home for the first time.

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[pomegranate-witch]

It’s fun looking back on my old blog and seeing how many things I struggled with because I didn’t know I was neurodivergent and the witchblr community pushed this very neurotypical idea of how things were “supposed to be done”. It left people like me in the dust, feeling like frauds. I helped run a witch/pagan help blog and I struggled with visualization. I explained the basics of meditation without being able to do it myself. And it helped! But not for me. I felt like an imposter.

Guess what? I can meditate now! And even better, I ENJOY it! Because I learned I have ADHD, and I took a few meditation classes that taught me the actual bones of meditation that the community hardly talked about back then. I was able to grow because I learned more about myself, my needs, and how to make my practice work for me.

This is important for all witches to know, but especially to my baby witches out there: a lot of the wide spread ideas of the witch community (especially witchtok, yikes) is meant for neurotypical people. You’re not broken or lost or fraudulent because you can’t do something. Either that thing just isn’t meant to be in your practice or you need to find a new way to do it that works with your body and your brain. It’s okay if it takes weeks, months, even years to get there. It took me 28 years to learn how to meditate despite being from a witchy family. You’re going to be fine. I promise ❤️

[sleepingxgalaxies]

shoutout to all the witches who are ADD and ADHD because this shit makes it 10x harder

[sagittariuswitchery]

dedicated my pilates class to venus today and left feeling sooo blessed 🐚🐬💕

[pomegranate-witch]

One of the most helpful things I’ve learned about my witchcraft practice, as a witch with ADHD, is that it is okay for my interests to change frequently. I used to feel bad that I’d get so invested in certain areas of witchcraft and it would become a huge part of my life/blog, only for a few months or maybe a year later it to disappear completely. I felt like I didn’t have a right to talk about it, despite devouring information and knowing so much, because I thought people would think I was flakey. Learning I have ADHD and finding out about hyperfixations was a huge turning point for me. Yes, I’m going to obsess about certain things, and yes, some of those things will eventually fall away, but they’re not gone forever. They’ll always be a part of what has shaped me as a practitioner even if I don’t utilize them anymore. They’re an important part of my past that I’m so grateful I got to experience. There is no need for shame. 

[diviningwhiledistracted]

Hello everybody

Hi people, Sarah here. I just wanted to get things started on this blog. So basically what me and irishgoatking had in mind was a subcommunity for witches or pagans (or any derivation of either of those words) with ADHD to be able to get together and talk about various struggles and blocks that come along with being ADHD and trying to work with magic, deities, entities, spirits and what ever else you fancy. Basically, we both completely understand how hard some of these things can be, seeing as we both have ADHD. One thing we both have noted having serious trouble with is astral projection/travelling. So we would love to talk to people who have gotten past whatever adhd blocks in that regard. Things like that. Anyway, so if you are ADHD or know someone who is who would benefit from this blog, check it out, give us a follow, or shoot us an ask. Thanks guys!