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Chilblains and Cold Feet
10 min read
Also known as: Perniones · chilblains · cold toes · poor circulation in the feet · Raynaud's feet · frostbite toes · ice-cold feet · perpetually cold feet · chilblain · vascular spasm in the feet
Your Body Is Speaking
Your feet are cold. Not just a little cool — genuinely cold. So cold that no socks, no hot water bottle, no warm bath offers lasting relief. Sometimes chilblains form: swollen, itching, painful patches that look as though your body has decided to abandon its outermost outposts. Medically, this is a circulatory disorder — the blood retreats from the extremities, the vessels constrict, and warmth simply doesn't arrive.
But why there? Why precisely in the feet — the part of your body that connects you to the ground? That carries you, that roots you, that moves you step by step through life?
The psychosomatic perspective asks an uncomfortable question: Have you truly arrived — in your body, in your life, on your own ground? Or are you standing somewhere at the edge, with one foot still in the shadows, ready to withdraw at any moment?
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