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Rachel, founder of Salt & Sustenance

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I'm a small-town Christian wife and mom of three boys, homemaker, content creator, researcher, and the woman behind Salt & Sustenance. I care deeply about faith, real food, nourishing the body, cultivating a rooted home, and faithfully stewarding everyday life. I've been keeping it real from the messy middle since 1987.

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I think a lot of women have quietly turned beauty into another form of self-improvement.

New product.
New routine.
New hair goal.
New skin goal.
New thing to fix.

And I’m not against beauty. Not even a little.

I love taking care of my curls. I love skincare. I love getting dressed and feeling feminine. I think caring for the body we’ve been given can be a beautiful form of stewardship.

But there’s a difference between caring for yourself and constantly trying to correct yourself.

That distinction matters.

So before you buy the next product promising to make you prettier, younger, smoother, shinier, or more “put together,” pause.

Ask yourself:

What makes me feel alive?
What have I neglected?
What actually works?
What am I buying from insecurity?
What would feel nourishing?

You may discover you don’t need a bigger beauty routine.

You may need to return to the things that make you feel like you.

And maybe that’s what stewarding our beauty looks like:

Not obsessing over our appearance.

Not neglecting it either.

But caring for ourselves without making our appearance responsible for telling us that we’re worthy.

This is only the beginning of The Beauty Audit. 🌿

We’re going to talk about the products we actually use, the hair we care for, the wardrobes we build, the money we spend, and eventually, the beauty standards we carry.

Because sometimes the most nourishing beauty decision isn’t what to add.

It’s finally getting honest about what’s worth keeping.

Save this for your next beauty audit.

#StewardYourBeauty #IntentionalBeauty #FeminineSelfCare #BodyStewardship #ChristianWomen

I think a lot of women have quietly turned beauty into another form of self-improvement.

New product.
New routine.
New hair goal.
New skin goal.
New thing to fix.

And I’m not against beauty. Not even a little.

I love taking care of my curls. I love skincare. I love getting dressed and feeling feminine. I think caring for the body we’ve been given can be a beautiful form of stewardship.

But there’s a difference between caring for yourself and constantly trying to correct yourself.

That distinction matters.

So before you buy the next product promising to make you prettier, younger, smoother, shinier, or more “put together,” pause.

Ask yourself:

What makes me feel alive?
What have I neglected?
What actually works?
What am I buying from insecurity?
What would feel nourishing?

You may discover you don’t need a bigger beauty routine.

You may need to return to the things that make you feel like you.

And maybe that’s what stewarding our beauty looks like:

Not obsessing over our appearance.

Not neglecting it either.

But caring for ourselves without making our appearance responsible for telling us that we’re worthy.

This is only the beginning of The Beauty Audit. 🌿

We’re going to talk about the products we actually use, the hair we care for, the wardrobes we build, the money we spend, and eventually, the beauty standards we carry.

Because sometimes the most nourishing beauty decision isn’t what to add.

It’s finally getting honest about what’s worth keeping.

Save this for your next beauty audit.

#StewardYourBeauty #IntentionalBeauty #FeminineSelfCare #BodyStewardship #ChristianWomen

Some weeks, the problem isn’t that you don’t know how to eat well.

You simply don’t have much left to give.

You don’t need a complicated meal plan.
You don’t need 14 ingredients.
You don’t need to spend Sunday afternoon cooking every meal for the week.

Sometimes nourishing yourself looks like browning a pound of ground beef and calling it dinner.

Sometimes it looks like steak & eggs with butter.

Sometimes it’s eggs and bacon at 7 PM because that’s what you had the capacity to make.

And sometimes the most nourishing thing you can do is stop believing that simple means inadequate.

These are 7 of my favorite low-effort, carnivore-friendly meals for those weeks when capacity is low but you still want to feed yourself and your family real food.

Save this for the week you need it.

Because nourishment shouldn’t require you to become a completely different woman first. 🤍

#carnivoremeals #easycarnivoremeals #easyfamilydinners #highproteinmeals #realfoodmeals

Some weeks, the problem isn’t that you don’t know how to eat well.

You simply don’t have much left to give.

You don’t need a complicated meal plan.
You don’t need 14 ingredients.
You don’t need to spend Sunday afternoon cooking every meal for the week.

Sometimes nourishing yourself looks like browning a pound of ground beef and calling it dinner.

Sometimes it looks like steak & eggs with butter.

Sometimes it’s eggs and bacon at 7 PM because that’s what you had the capacity to make.

And sometimes the most nourishing thing you can do is stop believing that simple means inadequate.

These are 7 of my favorite low-effort, carnivore-friendly meals for those weeks when capacity is low but you still want to feed yourself and your family real food.

Save this for the week you need it.

Because nourishment shouldn’t require you to become a completely different woman first. 🤍

#carnivoremeals #easycarnivoremeals #easyfamilydinners #highproteinmeals #realfoodmeals

You can be grateful for your life and still be tired. 🤍
You can love your family, love Jesus, appreciate your blessings, and still admit that you’re emotionally, mentally, and spiritually exhausted.
Those things can exist together.

Maybe you’ve been functioning so well that no one realizes how weary you actually are. Maybe you’ve gotten so good at carrying everything that you forgot you were allowed to put some of it down.
But Jesus doesn’t ask the weary woman to pretend she’s fine before coming to Him.

He says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

So this is your first Permission Slip:
You don’t have to minimize your exhaustion.
You don’t have to compare it to someone else’s.
And you don’t have to apologize for needing rest.
Bring your weariness to Jesus exactly as it is.

If this is the season you’re in, tell me just one word in the comments: “weary.” I want you to know you’re not the only woman carrying this. 🤍

#ThePermissionSlip #FromSurvivalToSustenance #ChristianWomen #EmotionalExhaustion #SurvivalMode ChristianLifestyle

You can be grateful for your life and still be tired. 🤍
You can love your family, love Jesus, appreciate your blessings, and still admit that you’re emotionally, mentally, and spiritually exhausted.
Those things can exist together.

Maybe you’ve been functioning so well that no one realizes how weary you actually are. Maybe you’ve gotten so good at carrying everything that you forgot you were allowed to put some of it down.
But Jesus doesn’t ask the weary woman to pretend she’s fine before coming to Him.

He says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

So this is your first Permission Slip:
You don’t have to minimize your exhaustion.
You don’t have to compare it to someone else’s.
And you don’t have to apologize for needing rest.
Bring your weariness to Jesus exactly as it is.

If this is the season you’re in, tell me just one word in the comments: “weary.” I want you to know you’re not the only woman carrying this. 🤍

#ThePermissionSlip #FromSurvivalToSustenance #ChristianWomen #EmotionalExhaustion #SurvivalMode ChristianLifestyle

There are women who have spent so long surviving that they no longer recognize what nourished feels like.

They wake up tired.

They procrastinate things they genuinely want to do.

The laundry feels enormous.

Making dinner feels like a mountain.

They keep telling themselves they need more discipline, better routines, stronger habits, more motivation.

So they try again.

And again.

And again.

And when they can’t maintain it, they call themselves lazy.

But sometimes what looks like laziness from the outside is simply a woman who has been carrying too much for too long.

That doesn’t mean every struggle with motivation is caused by exhaustion. And it doesn’t mean responsibility disappears.

But it does mean we should be careful about turning depletion into an identity.

Maybe the question isn’t only:

“How do I become more disciplined?”

Maybe it’s also:

“What would it look like to actually nourish the woman who is trying so hard to hold everything together?”

God did not create you merely to survive your days.

There is room for rest.
There is room for nourishment.
There is room for rootedness.
There is room to become present to the life He’s given you.

You were never meant to spend your whole life simply getting through it.

Send this to the woman who keeps calling herself lazy when she might just be exhausted. 🤍

#ChristianWomen #ChristianWomanhood #EmotionalExhaustion #SurvivalMode #SaltAndSustenance

There are women who have spent so long surviving that they no longer recognize what nourished feels like.

They wake up tired.

They procrastinate things they genuinely want to do.

The laundry feels enormous.

Making dinner feels like a mountain.

They keep telling themselves they need more discipline, better routines, stronger habits, more motivation.

So they try again.

And again.

And again.

And when they can’t maintain it, they call themselves lazy.

But sometimes what looks like laziness from the outside is simply a woman who has been carrying too much for too long.

That doesn’t mean every struggle with motivation is caused by exhaustion. And it doesn’t mean responsibility disappears.

But it does mean we should be careful about turning depletion into an identity.

Maybe the question isn’t only:

“How do I become more disciplined?”

Maybe it’s also:

“What would it look like to actually nourish the woman who is trying so hard to hold everything together?”

God did not create you merely to survive your days.

There is room for rest.
There is room for nourishment.
There is room for rootedness.
There is room to become present to the life He’s given you.

You were never meant to spend your whole life simply getting through it.

Send this to the woman who keeps calling herself lazy when she might just be exhausted. 🤍

#ChristianWomen #ChristianWomanhood #EmotionalExhaustion #SurvivalMode #SaltAndSustenance

There are seasons where God feels beautifully near.

And there are seasons where everything feels… quiet.

I used to believe the quiet meant I had done something wrong.

Now I know better.

Faith was never meant to rest on feelings.

It rests on the unchanging character of God.

The same God who felt close on the mountaintop is still faithfully present in the valley.

If your prayers feel small today…

Pray them anyway.

If opening your Bible feels more like discipline than delight…

Open it anyway.

Roots don’t stop growing just because we can’t see them.

If you’re walking through a quiet season, I hope this reminds you that silence is not absence.

📖 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5)

Come sit with me.

Let’s keep showing up together. 🤍

There are seasons where God feels beautifully near.

And there are seasons where everything feels… quiet.

I used to believe the quiet meant I had done something wrong.

Now I know better.

Faith was never meant to rest on feelings.

It rests on the unchanging character of God.

The same God who felt close on the mountaintop is still faithfully present in the valley.

If your prayers feel small today…

Pray them anyway.

If opening your Bible feels more like discipline than delight…

Open it anyway.

Roots don’t stop growing just because we can’t see them.

If you’re walking through a quiet season, I hope this reminds you that silence is not absence.

📖 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5)

Come sit with me.

Let’s keep showing up together. 🤍

I spent so much time asking God to strengthen me for the weight I was carrying, when maybe He was asking me to set some of it down.

I spent so much time asking God to strengthen me for the weight I was carrying, when maybe He was asking me to set some of it down.

For years, my mornings felt rushed before they even began.

I would wake up already behind.

Thinking about everything I needed to do.

Everyone who needed me.

Everything I hadn’t finished.

Even breakfast felt like another task to check off.

But something has changed.

Not because life suddenly became easy.

Not because I finally found the “perfect” routine.

Because Jesus has been teaching me that peace isn’t something I find after everything gets done.

It’s something I choose to practice in the middle of ordinary moments.

So these days, my mornings look different.

I open the blinds.

I thank God for another day.

I make a breakfast that nourishes my body instead of running on stress.

I sit down.

I breathe.

I remember that my worth isn’t measured by how much I accomplish before 9 a.m.

These aren’t complicated habits.

They’re ordinary rhythms.

But they’ve become sacred because they remind me that stewardship isn’t about doing more.

It’s about faithfully caring for what God has already entrusted to me.

So many of you have asked what I actually use each morning, so I linked the things I reach for most often. Not because those things create peace…

But because they’ve become small tools that support the rhythms God has been building in my life.

If you’d like the morning links, comment MORNING and I’ll send them your way. 🤍

Because healing isn’t usually found in one big moment.

For me, it’s been built one faithful morning at a time. 🤍

🌿 Ordinary Rhythm: Tomorrow morning, sit down for breakfast instead of eating while standing. Thank God for His provision before your first bite.

#ChristianWellness #NervousSystemHealing #ChronicStress #IntentionalLiving #FaithBasedWellness

For years, my mornings felt rushed before they even began.

I would wake up already behind.

Thinking about everything I needed to do.

Everyone who needed me.

Everything I hadn’t finished.

Even breakfast felt like another task to check off.

But something has changed.

Not because life suddenly became easy.

Not because I finally found the “perfect” routine.

Because Jesus has been teaching me that peace isn’t something I find after everything gets done.

It’s something I choose to practice in the middle of ordinary moments.

So these days, my mornings look different.

I open the blinds.

I thank God for another day.

I make a breakfast that nourishes my body instead of running on stress.

I sit down.

I breathe.

I remember that my worth isn’t measured by how much I accomplish before 9 a.m.

These aren’t complicated habits.

They’re ordinary rhythms.

But they’ve become sacred because they remind me that stewardship isn’t about doing more.

It’s about faithfully caring for what God has already entrusted to me.

So many of you have asked what I actually use each morning, so I linked the things I reach for most often. Not because those things create peace…

But because they’ve become small tools that support the rhythms God has been building in my life.

If you’d like the morning links, comment MORNING and I’ll send them your way. 🤍

Because healing isn’t usually found in one big moment.

For me, it’s been built one faithful morning at a time. 🤍

🌿 Ordinary Rhythm: Tomorrow morning, sit down for breakfast instead of eating while standing. Thank God for His provision before your first bite.

#ChristianWellness #NervousSystemHealing #ChronicStress #IntentionalLiving #FaithBasedWellness

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