# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Db7Afv7CN4M
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69062248-ciarafoyinc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-12T01:43:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

## Caption

I usually put music over these mirror videos. Today I’m talking, because this is the week I refuse to be what society calls “gentle with myself”.

We are sitting in wildfire smoke here in the Okanagan. You can’t go outside. There’s no sun. And every single day there’s a chance you get told to evacuate.

The kind of situation where nobody would blame you for letting it all slide right now. Skip the workout. Order in. Stay up. “Be kind to yourself.”

I’m 50, and I did the opposite. I got more sleep, not less. I got every single workout in. I got my food tighter than it’s been in months. And I feel really, really good, in a week where I have no say in anything.

You’re not imagining what this does to you. Of 2,000 adults surveyed through the Australian bushfire smoke, over half reported anxiety or feeling depressed, about half slept worse, and women reported it more than men (Rodney 2021, Frontiers in Public Health).

I’m not against rest. Sleep is rest. Food is rest. Three episodes and a takeout container is numbing, and you wake up further behind than you started.

You can’t control the air, the fire, the sky, or the evacuation alerts. You can control how you show up for yourself. Get the sleep, get the protein, get the workout in, and hold your standards on the days it would be easier not to.

If you’re in your 40’s you already know this feeling. Everything is shifting, none of it is up to you, and somewhere in there you slipped to the bottom of your own priority list.

Then it turns into whack a mole. You sort out the sleep and the bloating shows up. You sort out the bloating and the weight won’t move. You chase one and another one pops.

Those are not separate problems. They run on the same system and there is an order to fixing them. That’s why I created the Hormone Stacking Method, and it’s what I’m teaching in my free masterclass on August 25.

Comment ORDER and I’ll send your free registration link. Follow me first so it lands in your DMs and not your message requests.

Save this for the next week that gets away from you. 

Send it to the friend stuck inside running on nothing.

#wildfiresmoke #perimenopause #womensh

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