When you get a cancer diagnosis then it can be quite a while before you find your feet.
So what do you do to quell all those fears, insecurities and doubts?
Putting your best foot forward is always a good move.
This is when your podiatry training really kicks in!
By putting your tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges into forward manoeuvres with an attitude to match, you are giving yourself a fighting chance.
Cancer is going to demand a lot from you. It’s going to be exhausting and debilitating. It will shake, shatter and challenge. But mentally, you can try as hard as you can to keep moving. It requires us to persevere and give it our best effort.
When you put your best foot forward, you earn the right to put your feet up later.
Being on the front foot is to be encouraged. It will give you confidence. Do it often enough and you will feel ten foot tall and bulletproof.
To give into feelings of doom and gloom is shooting yourself in the foot and that won’t get you very far. Putting the worse foot forward is actually a real backward step.
The great thing about having a best foot is that you really have two of them!
It’s time to kick and kick hard and when you’ve done that, remember that warriors need to rest too so take the weight off your feet and kick back.