A Peaceful-Badass Guide to Living Barefoot

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1. I started going barefoot outdoor about seven years ago when I was practicing Grounding/Earthing exercises in a forest. The first times I took off shoes and went on my bare feet it felt a little strange. But soon I enjoyed to walk barefoot on the paths feeling the ground under my naked bare soles. It was such an amazing feeling being barefoot out there in nature.
   My next step into barefooting was to take a stroll through town without shoes walking on my bare feet. In beginning I think I was a little shy of going barefoot in public spaces. But soon I didn’t mind what other people think or they might look or stare at your bare feet. It’s my own choice walking barefoot. When you do I love the feeling when your bare feet touches the different substrates in town. Just walk naturally when you are barefoot as if it was the most natural thing in the world. I felt a really fantastic feeling of freedom not wearing any footwear.
   Kick off your shoes and try to feel the freedom of going barefoot – also outside. You will maybe love it and become a full time barefooter.

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2. I love this so much — the honesty of that “first strange step” and then the transition into freedom. Most people don’t understand that for many of us barefoot living didn’t start as rebellion — it started as returning to what is natural.

   That shift you described — from shy and self-aware to “I don’t give a sh*t, this is my body, my choice” — is exactly the arc so many of us go through. And once you taste that kind of freedom on your bare soles, there’s no un-knowing it.

   For anyone reading along who’s curious… you don’t have to go from zero to full-time in a day. Start with nature. Then a sidewalk. Then a grocery run. One moment of alignment at a time.
   Thanks so much for commenting and sharing your story. This is what the Barefoot Den is all about.

   I love all you people.
   Love and ((HUGS)),
   Laura Foster, Founder of Souls Healing Humanity

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3. Living the barefoot life the last 10 plus years has been a game changer, from mental to physical advantages. At first, I was iffy about some places, restaurants, some stores, and some other public places, but didn’t take long for it to become normal as I pushed the limit to restaurants, gatherings, public restrooms, and so on. I guess the older I was getting the less I gave a fuck about what others would think, and it just automatically became a norm. Sure, I run into issues here and there from restaurants, stores, and so on because of ” how people are programed with society norms” and still try to play the bull shit health code, but that doesn’t get to me much anymore. Going barefoot has given me a lot of joy, ” feeling the different grounds I walk on, from the “rainy wet asphalt, ,nature, sand at the beach, hiking, to cold grocery store tiles, ” and you name it, I just feel more alive when I feel the ground and more self-confident as well, the looks the stares, the negative comments, all in one year out the other with a smile. The freedom, feeling and energy I get from it alone is worth it and can’t imagine any other way. Being in the work force, I still have to have foot coffins on few times a week, not for long, and crocs are my tools I use for that.

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   1. Nick — YES. This is exactly it. At some point the “what will they think?” shrivels up and dies and you just start f*cking living. You pushed through the awkward beginning and now it’s simply your normal — not a rebellion, not a statement, just LIFE the way it actually feels right in your body.

      The part that hit me hardest was what you said about feeling more alive — the rain-wet asphalt, cold grocery tiles, the beach, forest ground — that texture of life is what most people never actually feel anymore. They’re insulated from their own experience and then wonder why they feel disconnected, anxious, numb.

      And yes — people will keep parroting the programmed “health code” bullsh*t because that’s what a conditioned society does. But when you’ve actually lived the freedom, the noise becomes irrelevant. You’re a living, walking reminder of what autonomy looks like — and that alone makes people uncomfortable. And, that’s okay.

      Thank you for writing this here. Posts like this are exactly why the Barefoot Den exists — to show that sanity lives on the other side of stopping the performative compliance and starting to live in alignment with your True Self.

      Keep walking free, Nick. I am so proud of YOU!

      I love all you people.
      Love and ((HUGS)),
      Laura Foster, Founder of Souls Healing Humanity

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