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"I was just hoping to hear from someone "I had a foot problem, I was walking weird, and now I fixed the foot pain by following John Sarno and I walk back to normal now."

Of course you did! That's TMS. You don't want to acknowledge WHY you have pain and what it's function is in your life right now. It is getting your attention to tell you that something much deeper is going on. Dr. Sarno suggests it is an unfelt RAGE - which begins a myriad of mental and most often physical symptoms but they don't exist one without the other.

Our western world model is that we should get a magic and instantaneous cure without actually having to do anything. However, you do have to do "the work" to feel the effects. That includes, eventually recognizing that you CAN walk normally through the pain, that, if your foot has been checked out and there is no structural issues found (and like me, even if you are diagnosed with structural issues) you can walk absolutely normally if you train your brain to return to it's previous gait. FIRST you need to do the emotional and mind work of loosing fear, and finding hope in the fact that you can do this.
It generally takes time.
One of the myriad of diagnoses I've had over the years is tarsal tunnel syndrome and what is essentially fallen arches. It created a great deal of pain BECAUSE I was super tense and walking with this tension and anxiety, unwittingly holding my breath, and doing all sorts of things that effect posture and gait. However NONE of it was structural, I created the physical torsion from mental tension. Because it happened over a lifetime (and I am not young) it is taking it's sweet time to work itself out. However, I have radically reduced my mental tension and stress, and do all kinds of things and usually have no pain in my feet even though they look exactly the same as they did when they hurt like heck. At time the pain returns, usually for short periods of but goes quickly as I deal with the mental issues surrounding it.