How Custom Shoe Inserts Can Improve Your Mental Health

You might be aware of the many ways that custom shoe inserts and orthotics can improve your body’s health. But you might not realize that they can also improve your mental health! Many of the physical benefits you get from shoe inserts are good for your mind and overall well-being.

Reduce Stress

One thing is abundantly clear: pain is stressful. When you’re in pain, it’s common for your cortisol (stress hormone) levels also to go up. That means that your mental health suffers. Your brain is less able to cope with everyday situations and more significant stressors, like a family emergency or crisis at work.

Since custom shoe inserts can help alleviate physical pain, it can give your brain more bandwidth to cope with day-to-day stresses. 

Improve Posture and Feel More Confident

How you carry yourself reflects how you feel about yourself. But sometimes, you have to fake it until you make it, and that’s true for self-confidence. One thing that you can do to boost your feelings about yourself is to stand up straighter, and custom orthotics in your shoes make that possible.

When you stand up straighter and carry yourself with confidence, others perceive you that way, too. It will change how your co-workers, strangers, and even family and friends perceive you. 

Be More Active

It’s hard to get exercise when your body is in pain, no matter how much you want to. But exercise is vital to your overall well-being. If you put appropriate arch support for shoes in your athletic shoes, it helps to align your feet and eliminate heel, ankle, knee, hip, and back pain. 

Exercise, especially aerobic exercise, increases the production of endorphins in your brain. The endorphins are feel-good hormones, and the benefits of exercise last long after you’re done. When you can exercise without pain, you’ll move easier and feel better about yourself because you have more energy and know you’re taking care of your body.

Do Something Good for Yourself

Just the act of investing in custom orthotics might be enough to improve your mental health. When you do things and take actions towards bettering yourself, it improves how you feel. This is true whether it’s for your physical, mental, or emotional health, or your overall wellness.

What is more, doing something good for yourself can cause a chain reaction. Once you take that first step with custom orthotics, the payoffs might inspire you to take up a new exercise, venture into new social situations, or do something else good for yourself that enhances your mental health. 

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