Salty Mama Wellness

Salty Mama Wellness A Holistic Health + Nervous System Coach for moms 40+ of young kids. I help you become regulated so motherhood becomes calm, safe, and fun again.

Check out my FREE resources. Taking new clients NOW for 1:1 and group coaching.

If we were new friends meeting in a coffee shop, here’s what I’d want you to know.Because if you’re a burnt out, midlife...
09/07/2026

If we were new friends meeting in a coffee shop, here’s what I’d want you to know.

Because if you’re a burnt out, midlife mom like me, you’ve been led to believe otherwise.

Being a mama is hard. Being a stressed, tired, sick, ragey mama is even harder.

I know it seems like this is just “how life is now”. Like this is just the “new you.”

I’m here to tell you it’s not.

In no story does the Lord want us just going through the motions, living in low level (or high level) stress. It’s not good for us. It’s not good for the people we love.

As mothers, I think we all adopt this the moment we find out we’re pregnant. That hypervigilance, our nervous system scanning for threat to keep us and our babies safe.

But that same hypervigilance is what’s contributing to the chronic symptoms and illness so many of us are dealing with after 40.

Learning to bring our bodies back to a place of knowing we are safe quiets all that noise.

That’s what I want for you.

I want you to relax without an agenda. I want you to fall asleep because your body knows it’s time, not because you finally collapsed. I want you to know it’s okay to breathe, to need a few minutes just for you, with nothing to show for it.

You don’t have to earn rest. You just have to let your body believe it’s safe enough to take it.

What’s one thing your nervous system has been asking for that you keep putting off? 👇

regulatefirst overstimulatedmom anxiousmoms tiredasamother

The supplement graveyard. Pretty sure every woman over 40 - and maybe every woman over 20 - has one of these. It’s where...
09/02/2026

The supplement graveyard. Pretty sure every woman over 40 - and maybe every woman over 20 - has one of these. It’s where your $149 bottle of miracle cure for xyz goes to die with 5 of its friends.

It’s not like you didn’t have good intentions of using it. It truly felt like “the one” for about three weeks before it quietly stopped working. Then you decided to try something else - that also didn’t work.

It’s not that the supplements were necessarily wrong. It’s that they just couldn’t perform. The foundation they need to work on is falling the f apart. And let’s be real. Nothing optimizes well on top of a dysregulated nervous system and an inflamed gut. The body’s entirely too busy managing threat to do anything with the super pricey stuff you’re pumping into it.

Regulate First isn’t “no supplements ever.” It’s sequencing: nervous system and gut stabilize first, then targeted supplementation actually has a chance to do something.

What’s the oldest bottle in your graveyard? Tell me below. 👇

hormoneimbalance perimenopausejourney saltymamawellness regulatefirst

I personally googled this in the past and pretty much EVERY SINGLE WOMAN I’ve worked with and am friends with - has a sl...
08/28/2026

I personally googled this in the past and pretty much EVERY SINGLE WOMAN I’ve worked with and am friends with - has a sleep issue. It’s so unfair. Like “Body. Please just cooperate and go the F to sleep!”

Comment 3am if you’ve been there.✌🏼

regulatefirst midlifewomen midlifemama perimemopause whatwomenaregoogling wiredandtired

I wasn’t dying. I was dysregulated. Took me way too long to learn the difference.Swipe through my actual story - mycotox...
08/25/2026

I wasn’t dying. I was dysregulated. Took me way too long to learn the difference.

Swipe through my actual story - mycotoxins, MCAS, panic attacks and all. Then comment CHAT below if you’re ready to dive into your own healing journey.

08/24/2026

We all make mistakes - but try not to make these three when you want to get healthy. ✌🏼

What alcohol is actually doing to your perimenopausal body. Not a lecture, just the s**t nobody explains.This isn’t abou...
08/20/2026

What alcohol is actually doing to your perimenopausal body. Not a lecture, just the s**t nobody explains.

This isn’t about whether you SHOULD drink. It’s about what’s actually happening in your body when you do, so you can decide from information instead of guilt.

Your liver processes alcohol and estrogen through overlapping pathways. When it’s busy with one, it’s slower clearing the other. Alcohol also increases gut permeability, which matters more when your gut lining is already under pressure from hormonal shifts. And it fragments sleep architecture: you fall asleep faster, but the deep, restorative stages get cut short.

New audio episode is up. 20 minutes, headphones in, no judgment. Head to my Substack from up 🔝

momsover40 midlifemama perimenopauseandalcohol hormoneimbalance midlifewomen perimenopausejourney saltymamawellness regulatefirst

Mom rage isn’t a personality flaw. It’s your nervous system sending an eviction notice to an unsustainable setup.2025 wa...
08/19/2026

Mom rage isn’t a personality flaw. It’s your nervous system sending an eviction notice to an unsustainable setup.

2025 was the year we finally named it out loud. 2026 is the year we stop just venting it and start asking what it’s actually telling us.

Rage is a threat-response signal, not a character trait. When it’s firing constantly, that’s data. It means your current setup is asking more of your nervous system than it can currently sustain. “I’m working on my anger” quietly assumes you’re the problem. “I’m working on the 47 things making me angry” assumes your environment is. Both can be true at once, but most of us skip straight to blaming ourselves and skip what the data is telling us.

What’s one thing on your list that needs to change, not you? Tell me below. 👇

midlifemom nervoussystemregulation midlifewomen momrageisreal perimenopauseanxiety saltymamawellness regulatefirst

08/18/2026

Here’s something you’ll be shocked to know. Hot flashes aren’t always hormone related - directly. Sometimes they’re an insulin problem wearing a hormone costume.

Insulin resistance and vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes, night sweats) are linked and blood sugar spikes can trigger or worsen them independent of where your hormone levels actually are. If yours seem worse after carb-heavy meals, that’s not a coincidence.

Simple solution to try: protein and fiber first, carbs last, at every meal. It doesn’t fix everything, but for a lot of women, it changes the pattern more than you think.

Not saying hormones aren’t involved. Saying it’s not ONLY hormones.✌🏼

Try it for a week. Tell me what changes.👇

hormoneimbalance momsover40 midlifewomen perimenopauseat40 perimenopausejourney saltymamawellness regulatefirst

08/17/2026

Welcome to my new series - what women are googling at 3am. We’re kicking it off with a popular one - “Why do I feel like a different person?”

If you’ve typed that into Google at 3am like I have, I want you to understand something. You are not losing your “personality” - or mind. You’re losing estrogen’s buffer on your nervous system - something we never learned about in our 40+ years of life.

Estrogen isn’t just about your cycle. It regulates your mood and it directly affects how much stress your nervous system can absorb before it implodes. When estrogen fluctuates the way it does in perimenopause, your baseline temperament feels like it’s fluctuating right along with it.

You didn’t change. Your buffer did. That’s a biology, not a mystery, and not permanent. You will come back online eventually.

Comment 3am if you’ve searched this exact thing.✌🏼

momsover40 nervoussystemregulation perimenopausal wiredbuttired perimenopauseanxiety saltymamawellness regulatefirst

This weeks Substack article was on Retatrutide. It’s what comes after Tirzepatide, and here’s why that matters for midli...
08/16/2026

This weeks Substack article was on Retatrutide. It’s what comes after Tirzepatide, and here’s why that matters for midlife women, plus what we genuinely don’t know yet.

This is Part 3 of The Peptide Files, and it closes the series with the most aggressive drug in this class so far. Retatrutide is a triple agonist: GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon receptor activation together. That third target is new, and it’s what separates this drug from everything that came before it. Phase 2 trial data showed roughly 24% body weight reduction - the highest number documented for this class to date.

The glucagon receptor also adds a metabolic and liver dimension the first two drugs in this class didn’t touch, which is exactly where the open questions live.

Full breakdown, mechanism, data, and the questions worth asking your doctor is up on Substack now. Link is up top.

These are tools. They were never meant to be the foundation.

momsover40 hormoneimbalance midlifewomen perimenopauseweightgain perimenopausejourney saltymamawellness regulatefirst

Address

Nampa, ID

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 3pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 12pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Salty Mama Wellness posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Salty Mama Wellness:

Shortcuts

Share

Category