Children of the Revolution

If you want to forget your troubles – wear a pair of shoes that are too tight.

Yes…I’m sure there are thousands of people out there reading my every word breathlessly (have vowed not to look at my number of views page until the end of the week).

And I’ll bet at least some of you are making faces and wondering how shoes can impact on your health.

Sure I can hear you say from here. Shoes can make your legs look great (especially really high heels). And they can pull an outfit together like nothing else (or ruin the whole thing).

But impact on your overall health – surely that’s taking it all a bit too far.

Nope – it is for real.

Let me see if I can convince you.

Let’s begin with an image. A body, upright and strong. The souls of both feet are firmly on the ground. Spine straight, lungs open and large. Energy is able to flow freely from the earth, to the top of the head, down the legs and out again. Sound good? That is how a healthy body looks and feels when it is properly supported on the ground
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Now take the body and add a pair of traditional high heels. Move all the weight forward, throw the spine out of line and squash up the diaphragm. how does that sound now?
Poorly fitting and poorly designed shoes can change the entire balance of the body.

In these shoes, the body can’t stride the way it was built to do.

Suddenly, instead of the lungs being open and full, they become cramped and constricted.

The spine moves out of alignment and the hips and pelvis lose their natural position.
There’s more – and trust me, I could go on but you get the picture.
A good connection to the earth contributes to a healthy body.

Let's be honest!

(okay so maybe this is a bit of a rant but here goes. We believe in it)

Let’s tell it like it is.
Everyone deserves to be healthy and happy. Everyone.
Whether you are 26 or 62.
So many messages today are telling older women they have a medical problem. That they are sick. That they’d better slow down or something will fall off.
Well we disagree.
We don’t believe women need to slow down just because they are “of a certain age.”

In our shop, we see the same thing over and over and over. Women who think they have a medical problem when in fact, what they have is a shoe problem.

Bad knees, bad back, plantar faciitis….
The right shoes can support your foot and provide your whole body with a firm platform on which to stand and take on the world.

And you know what? They also look sensational.

Everyone deserves to be healthy and happy

Everyone deserves to be healthy and happy

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