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1267: The Hidden Habits Disrupting Your Sleep and Hormones With Ciara Foy
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- Emotionally Uncomfortable
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- Jun 3, 2026
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Summary
"When you put the time and effort into your sleep, it really does pay a massive ROI in your life." In this episode, Heather and Ciara Foy unpack the physical, hormonal, and emotional shifts that leave so many middle-aged women anxious, burned out, unable to sleep, and disconnected from themselves and their lives. This conversation goes far beyond sleep hygiene and hormones, exploring the deeper patterns of self-sacrifice, stress, over-functioning, and depletion that determine women's health. We talk about why sleep becomes more difficult during this stage of life, how cortisol, insulin resistance, and nervous system dysregulation work together, and the small but powerful changes that can radically improve your energy and mood. Most importantly, this episode is an invitation to stop abandoning yourself in the process of caring for everyone else and start recognizing that feeling good, rested, and supported is essential. What to listen for: ☑️ Why middle-aged women become insulin resistant, and how that affects sleep ☑️ The many changes in hormones that lead to higher anxiety and difficulty sleeping ☑️ How do you contribute to your stress by self-sacrificing and not letting things go? "If you don't get radically honest with yourself, I don't know if your body will stick around. You have to fight to feel worthy of feeling good right now. " ☑️ The way you treat yourself and your health is what you model to your children ☑️ Focusing on sleep during highly stressful times will help you avoid burnout ☑️ Sleep hygiene tips that most women don't know how to implement "Good sleep starts in the morning. If you get up and immediately pick up your phone, you're disrupting your sleep. You need to make a commitment, even if it's 20 minutes, that you don't immediately get on your phon…