The Feel Your Feet Community
WHAT is a community? How do we define it, and what it brings to us?
Feel Your Feet stands as an exemplar of what a community should be, and what it can achieve. A supportive online forum where members can openly discuss the impact foot problems have had on their lives and their worries about their feet. A place of support and knowledge where people can take steps towards positive foot health and connect with others who want nothing more than to help.
It is a place where you will never feel lost or alone. A place that will shine a guiding light of reassurance as professional partners provide advice and guidance.
We understand that foot issues come with deep emotional significance. Too often they are laughed off. Too often the emphasis is on making people feel odd, different, or marginalised. Society has created a situation where shame and silence walk hand-in-hand.
At Feel Your Feet, no-one is here to judge. Talk with us, and our community, and you will see how readily and genuinely people talk back. The beauty is that you too can, if you so wish, become one of those people. Not only will you benefit from the Feel Your Feet community, but you will help others overcome their problems, encouraging people to share their experiences and stories to grow the foot health community and inspire people to take care of their feet.
Loneliness is not a nice place – at Feel Your Feet you are never alone. You are not a ‘me’, you’re an ‘us’.
Action for change
Feel Your Feet wants to make a difference. We want to make your voice heard. We know from long experience that people are being let down by a lack of preventative foot health care and that their needs are absolutely not being met. Instead, they are being cast adrift, left to flounder alone in a vast sea of misinformation just at the exact time they need rescue.
The larger the Feel Your Feet community, the better we can effect change, the better we can make the decision-makers see that foot health is not a minor issue. It is at the very heart of the future of the NHS, not just because of the diabetes epidemic, but because it is at the root of a plethora of conditions throughout the body.
A Friend for Life
At Feel Your Feet, you will find people who are variously strong-willed, comforting, sympathetic, empathetic, humorous, and caring. You will find those who are always listening. Put simply, you will find friendship. Real friendship.
Come and say hello. We’ll do the rest.
Simply head over to our Home page and click ‘Join The Community’.
Feel Your Feet – Connecting • Listening • Sharing
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Hi everyone – I’m Lauren. What an amazing blog! I’m so glad I’ve found your community. You’re right… we don’t talk about our feet enough! I suffer from various foot problems and don’t know what to do about them. I often get a bruised area on the ball of my foot, which is really painful to walk on and lasts a few days. I don’t really know what it is or what to do to help it… Do you have any advice? Who else has recently joined? Thanks, Lauren 🙂
Hi Lauren
Welcome to the community!
Does the bruising only affect one of your feet or is it both? Is the bruising visible or does it just feel bruised? Is there anything in particular you do before you get the pain for example does it get sore after you’ve done a particular sport?
Thanks
Judith
Hi Judith, thanks for your reply. The bruising normally affects both feet and is visible – a light brown/dark yellow. The only thing I can think of is perhaps when I wear pointed shoes? Would that make a difference? Thanks, Lauren 🙂
I’m new to the group too! I’ve come to realise how important our feet are and that I should actually consider looking after them as part of my routine. As a runner I often suffer from cracked heels and feel that my only option is to rest when it happens. Does anyone else suffer from this? I’m sure if I looked after them better on an ongoing basis this wouldn’t happen.
It would be great to hear from other people in the group!
HI, I’m new to the group too and I’m so pleased that I’ve found you. I have regular check ups at my podiatrist but I still seem to suffer with cracked heels. Can anyone help with a ‘full proof’ way of stopping this. Its agonising and a bit unsightly too! I play lots of Netball so maybe that doesn’t help!
Thank you… in anticipation!