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.

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07/21/2026

Regulate yourself first. It’s not selfish.

Not as a self-care treat. Not as a ‘fill your own cup’ type of thing.

As the actual biological mechanism behind your ability to help your child’s nervous system regulate.✌🏼

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Before you try to calm your kid, calm yourself first. These three things regulate YOU before you attempt to regulate the...
07/19/2026

Before you try to calm your kid, calm yourself first.

These three things regulate YOU before you attempt to regulate them.

Because you cannot co-regulate from empty and ‘just take a breath’ isn’t the protocol your nervous system actually needs.

Save this. This is the one to have memorized for the moment things go sideways.✌🏼

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07/15/2026

Hot Mom Summer Part 2. Such a fun series to do. Absolutely loved collaborating with all these amazing women. 🙏🏻 Thank you for being a part of this.

⏩️I’m looking for more women over 40 - who have something to say and are ready to share their thoughts with everyone.

Head to my substack up top, become a subscriber, then apply to share your voice and connect with other women and moms over 40 who also are done giving a F and want to be heard. ✌🏼

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07/13/2026

POV: you just matched your kid’s meltdown with one of your own.

You know that didn’t help.

You didn’t purposely choose it. I know. Because I’ve been there - many times. lol.

Here’s the thing though - nobody is naming the part that actually matters: your nervous system was already empty before that meltdown started. You had nothing left to give.

Co-regulation is a biological process. A regulated nervous system helps another nervous system downshift. But that only works when there’s something to give.

In perimenopause, when estrogen is no longer buffering your stress response, the tank drains much faster and refills slower.

You cannot consistently give what you don’t have.

This is physiology. Not an issue with your parenting.

Article drops Wednesday.

Comment REGULATE if this landed.

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07/10/2026

The gut-brain connection isnt just some made up thing.

It’s a two-way communication highway, called the vagus nerve, that runs between your gut and your brain. And it carries more traffic than most people understand.

90% of serotonin is produced in the gut. The gut’s enteric nervous system contains roughly 500 million neurons (the most in our entire body). And the signals running up that vagus nerve from gut to brain are influencing your mood, your anxiety, your stress response, and your nervous system regulation - before your brain has a chance to get involved.

In perimenopause, when estrogen starts its decline, your gut barrier integrity becomes disrupted as well as your nervous system regulation. This connection with estrogen becomes the conversation that changes everything.

Comment GUT if you’ve never heard it explained this way.

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07/09/2026

Every “do these things daily” list skips the sentence that actually matters: none of it works if your nervous system thinks it’s under attack.

I’m not writing this list to sound wholesome. Each one is doing a job - and I generally do all of these daily.

Morning sunlight sets your cortisol rhythm for the whole day.

Water isn’t a wellness cliché. It’s blood volume and nerve conduction.

Movement discharges the stress hormones sitting in your tissues from the meltdown at 7am and the presentation at work.

Sleep is when your HPA axis actually recovers. Not when it politely takes a break.

Even the “grace”, “gratitude” and the “something you love” parts are vagal tone work. They’re not soft. They’re regulation in disguise.

You can do all the above though and still feel like you’re failing if you’re doing it on top of a nervous system that’s been in survival mode for years.

That’s not saying you’re just stuck and nothing can help. That’s biology asking for repair before it asks for a routine.

If you don’t know where your dysregulation is actually coming from, that’s what The Body Audit is for. Free, 20 minutes, and it’ll tell you more than another list will.

So tell me, which of these are you already doing and which is the first to get skipped?

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07/06/2026

Somatic therapy has become the “hot topic” this year.

The “influencer version” showed up first. Here’s the real one.

Somatic doesn’t just mean yoga and breathing. It means addressing your feelings of anxiety through the body, not around it. The distinction that matters: talk therapy addresses the story, the mental part. Somatic work addresses the state, how you feel in your body. Both matter. But for nervous system dysregulation, state comes first.

Neuroimaging research shows body-based approaches modulate the brain regions tied to emotional regulation in ways CBT alone doesn’t reach.

This is not a trend. This is physiology. And it’s what I incorporate into my Regulate First Method.

Comment SOMATIC. I’ll break it down.✌🏼

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Your body’s been telling you the tank is full.Most of us were never taught what those signs actually look like - especia...
07/04/2026

Your body’s been telling you the tank is full.

Most of us were never taught what those signs actually look like - especially in perimenopause.

The snap doesn’t come out of nowhere. There are signs before the rage. Sounds that feel louder than they are. The brace for the next thing. Small things landing like big ones. The desperate need for everyone to just stop talking!!! (I literally said this to my youngest this morning, while trying to get out of the house to brothers baseball games)

These have nothing to do with your personality. They are purely nervous system data.

Save this. This is the list to have memorized before school pickup - when we start doing that again 🙈

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