Plantar Fasciitis

You get up in the morning, set your foot on the floor — and a stabbing pain shoots through your heel. As if someone had driven a nail into the sole of your foot overnight. Every step an ordeal. The plantar fascia — that tough band of connective tissue that spans your arch and gives you stability with every step — is inflamed, irritated, overloaded.

Medicine calls it plantar fasciitis and points to overuse, ill-fitting footwear, shortened calf muscles. All true. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: why does the exact point that bears your entire body weight hurt when you take the next step? Why is it precisely the tissue that moves you forward that is rebelling?

Your foot says: stop. Not like this. Not this way. Not with this hardness.