Light tan shoes. For me, that's a fashion living-on-the-edge kind of thing.
For the last eight years I couldn't know what I would step in when I went outside. There were days when I'd go out in a skirt and heels to a meeting, then return home to a duck being attacked and requiring bloody assistance. Or, I'd walk along a stone path only to have the stone sink into muck. You can ruin a lot of shoes that way, especially if they're light-colored, because light-colored shoes attract dirt.
When you live in a place surrounded by mud and muck, you learn to dress appropriately. It's like putting on armor: non-permeable shoes, pants that can never really be clean again. Now that we live in a 'burb, it's not so risky wearing light tan shoes, or skirts that need dry cleaning, because there's just a lot less chance of attracting crud. And if you coat them in stain-repellent, you're in good shape.
Your soul is like a pair of light tan shoes. Your soul is sticky. It attracts clutter and crud, and unhealthy muck is hard to remove from the grip of a sticky soul. You have probably learned to wear armor around others--sarcasm, feigned nonchalance, distance--to keep your heart safe and your soul slightly less covered in dirt.
Learning healthy intimacy is like Scotchgard for the soul. Practicing selective media input is like walking on sidewalks instead of roaming in chicken poop. Reminding yourself that you matter, and matter to God, is like taking off your shoes at the end of the day and wiping away the dirt that's stuck to them.
Take care of the light tan shoes of your soul, and you can expose them to almost anything. No armor required.