Hi! Welcome to our Monthly Fuel Newsletter – where you can find FUEL for your mind, body, and soul to guide you into the weeks ahead.

Here’s what you can expect from each monthly newsletter:

• 🧠 FUEL FOR THOUGHT – sharing my biggest reflection from the past month

• 🥑 IN SEASON, ON YOUR PLATE – highlighting seasonal ingredients with 3-5 quick recipe ideas for you to try

• 🧿 ENERGY FORECAST – I will be using my oracle cards to do an energetic reading for the month aheads, because our soul needs fuel too

• ❤️ DEAR CAROLINA – answering 1-2 community questions (self-care, wellness, mindset, etc.) from you guys

Let’s dive right in…

May’s Biggest Takeaway:

This past month, I got to attend the Jay Shetty live tour at Madison Square Garden here in NYC and one of the things he shared that has really stuck with me is: “we think we are, what we think other people think we are”. Basically: if we think other people think we’re smart, we feel smart. If we think other people think we look pretty, we feel pretty, etc.

In essence: our self-image is (most of the time) dictated by what we THINK other people think of us… and that is completely outside of our control… because you could try your hardest, but you still wouldn’t be able to control other people or what they think, say, perceive, etc.

This ends up affecting us because we often end up NOT doing what we really feel called to do… out of fear of looking bad, being perceived negatively or being seen trying.

And I don’t know about you, but I’ve definitely held myself back from being a beginner or trying something new because of I’ve gotten caught up in mental loops of overthinking. I’ve had times where I didn’t do something because I worried about how it would go, and if other people would look at the output and judge me, or think I was under-performing.

The only way to actually move past this is to move through it. You just have to do the uncomfortable thing. You have to gradually and consistently do the very thing you keep putting off or resisting until it stops feeling so scary (hello, exposure therapy!). And as you do it, you’ll gain new information, you’re figure out if you like it or don’t, and you’ll get better at it with time.

Hearing this quote was just the reminder I needed to switch out of wondering what other people think and instead tune back into asking myself: What do YOU think about it? How do you feel about it/yourself?