The Ultimate Healing Era Guide

 On todays episode of the Empower Sounds Podcast we are joined by Alessia Sutherberry. Alessia makes videos on YouTube to help women manage their mental health, navigate their friendships and relationships as well as just generally level- up their lives through grounding practices such as meditation, affirmations and visualisations.

In todays conversation Alessia shares how she got started creating content and her motivations for growing her community. She also details why she narrowed her niche to self-care and personal development, and what inspired her to focus specifically on the topic of self-improvement and mental health. Alongside highlighting her motivations behind her work Alessia shares her long-term goals in terms of promoting mental health and wellbeing for her community, and what she wants to do in the future.

One of the main themes of todays discussion is friendship, Alessia relates the importance of having a circle of people who believe in you, and how her YouTube channel helped her prioritise the right people in her life.`She talks about how starting her channel led to the ending of certain friendships and shares how people struggling with friendship can friendship break ships and losing old relationships whilst remaining unapologetic and not getting swept up in criticism or doubt.

As well as managing platonic relationships, Alessia shares how to empower yourself within romantic relationships, how to deal with insecurities and how to prioritise what you want to do in a relationship. She also relays how to navigate conflict in a way that is suitable to your relationship without feeling guilt or shame. Touching on the idea of emotional avoidance, Alessia dresses how to show up in conflict and in relationships in general from a place of safety, security and self worth.

Alongside the theme of relationship, Alessia touches on the importance of affirmation in shifting your mindset to a positive one. She explains how the value of positive affirmation alongside detailing other practices which allow her to show up as a more peaceful and grounded version of herself.

Some of the key themes and takeaways of todays conversation include:

• Practices to ensure good mental health
• How to deal with friendship break ups 
• How to decanter men(or romantic partners in general) and centre yourself
• How to stay true to yourself in the face of criticism
• The importance of affirmations
• How to stay consistent on your passions and projects
• How to have conversations about feminism 

Tune in to learn more and listen to the full episode on Spotify, Apple, Amazon and all other major streaming platforms.

Follow Alessia at @alessiasutherberry on instagram 

Watch Alessia’s videos https://www.youtube.com/@alessiasutherberry