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Does your heart race when you look at shoes you consider\u00a0buying? Do you feel pure joy course through your veins when you wear them for the first time? If you answered, \u201cYES!\u201d…you are a charter member of The Women Who Love Shoes Club.<\/p>\n

I’m on a visitors pass.<\/p>\n

As time goes on, I must admit I am becoming more and more fascinated with \u2018shoe love\u2019 in particular the sub culture of \u2013\u2018red shoe love\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve witnessed women literally transform in front of my eyes as they describe a pair of beloved shoes which grows to include a time in their lives, how they felt and the experiences that went with. \u00a0It\u2019s mesmerizing to say the least and totally thought provoking. \u00a0So I \u00a0figure if there’s an opportunity for some \u00a0extra love in our lives…let’s take a look!<\/p>\n

My mission this week: Explore (red) Shoe Love.<\/p>\n

In late spring a friend (Leslie the music lover<\/a>) was vacationing in London and Paris and snapped a bunch of pictures of red shoes (including the one above).\u00a0 She had purchased 2 pairs of her own red shoes before leaving. \u00a0They were decidedly more conservative (a cheerful sneaker and a happy sandal) than the ones that caught her eye abroad. I don\u2019t think hers were threatened by their high style European sisters. They were comfortable in their own skin (upper?).<\/p>\n

OK… So here\u2019s what I know…Women who love shoes don\u2019t just love their shoes they also LOVE the pursuit of them! Did you know that for many women \u201cbuying shoes taps into the most primitive of instincts; the hunt, the chase and the kill,\u201d states writer Alyssa Siegel in Psychology Tomorrow Magazine. Apparently even thinking about shoe shopping (for Women Who Love Shoes) causes the adrenaline to pump. By the time they arrive at the shoe store the dopamine, norepinephrine, oxytocin and serotonin are already releasing. That\u2019s impressive.<\/p>\n

According to Martin Lindstrom author of Buyology:Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, \u201cwhen women buy other kinds of apparel \u00a0the dopamine flatlines when the debit card is swiped but not with shoes women rationalize shoes are a practical buy-something they can wear multiple times a week- so they hold onto that pleasurable feeling longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another little known fact —buying new shoes stimulates an area of the brain\u2019s prefrontal cortex termed \u2018the collecting spot\u2019. Shoes are viewed as a collecting item (think stamps), \u201cadding to the collection evokes a mini adrenaline rush\u201d, says Helen Fisher PhD Professor of Anthropology Rutgers University.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m starting to see shoe shopping as a socially responsible activity as well as an investment in health. Could we stave off minor depression with a prescription for shoe shopping and at least a trial membership in The Women Who Love Shoes Club?<\/p>\n

Hmmmmm….I\u2019ll be thinking about that<\/p>\n

Tomorrow: \u00a0Supernatural Shoe Facts<\/p>\n

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