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six weeks ago i cried so much my feet changed shape and ever since then my one pair of shoes hasn't fit properly. i've been too lazy to buy new shoes and cobbling my own shoes is out of the question. this is a metaphor for everything else in my life rn too

Can you describe the shape before and after?

they got wider in the front or something? i can't really tell if they've actually changed shape or if i've just gotten less numb / more sensitive

My feet got noticeably bigger after my second kid, and that sort of thing is common. Yours is the first anecdote I’ve heard about emotional release doing it though!

oh, that's fascinating! the part of the emotional release that actually changed my feet was reconnecting to my sexuality, and specifically to sexuality as being for making babies! seems related to the thing you wrote on fb about menstrual pain and feelings about pregnancy

every time i connected more to this sexuality -> babies thing it released a bunch of tension in my sacrum but also in two lines going down the backs of my legs to the outer sides of my feet. i just kept releasing that tension for hours

Apparently women's feet getting bigger during pregnancy is caused by changes set off by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxin  ; and in men, relaxin is produced by the prostrate and makes sperm more capable of fertilizing egg cells. Hmm. (h/t @DiamonDie for noting the connection)