Heel Spur

Every step becomes a test. In the morning, when you put your foot out of bed onto the floor, a stabbing pain shoots through your heel — as sharp as if you were stepping on a nail. During the day it sometimes improves, sometimes not. But the pain remains your companion. It sits exactly where you touch the ground. Exactly where your entire body weight meets the earth — at the foundation.

Medically, a heel spur is a bony outgrowth on the heel bone — either on the underside, where the tendon plate attaches, or at the back, at the insertion of the Achilles tendon. Overuse, ill-fitting footwear, misalignment — the explanations are varied. But the psychosomatic perspective asks differently: why does your body form a thorn at exactly this point? What has hardened so deeply in your foundation that it now reminds you with every step?