Attachment Theory 101: From Mystery to Mastery
Welcome to our course on Attachment Theory, where you'll discover the key dynamics that shape relationships. Whether you want to strengthen your bond with a partner, understand your emotional patterns, or learn more about human connection, this course is a great starting point.
Attachment Theory helps explain why we connect the way we do, why conflicts happen, and how to build secure, meaningful relationships. You’ll explore the four main attachment styles, the effects of unmet needs, and the importance of emotional support. With relatable examples, practical exercises, and tools for self-awareness, this course equips you to better understand and navigate relationship patterns. Whether you're learning on your own or as a couple, this is your first step toward deeper connection and emotional security.
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Welcome to Attachment Theory 101: From Mystery to Mastery
Join couples therapist and author Julie Manano as she introduces Attachment Theory 101: From Mystery to Mastery. This course is your roadmap to understanding the science of relationships, tailored for both individuals and couples.
Join couples therapist and author Julie Manano as she introduces Attachment Theory 101: From Mystery to Mastery. This course is your roadmap to understanding the science of relationships, tailored for both individuals and couples.
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What is Attachment Theory?
Attachment theory reveals the core dynamics that make or break relationships. In this module, you'll learn why attachment security is vital for emotional connection and how it serves as the cornerstone for a thriving partnership.
Attachment theory reveals the core dynamics that make or break relationships. In this module, you'll learn why attachment security is vital for emotional connection and how it serves as the cornerstone for a thriving partnership.
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Bringing Attachment Theory to Life: A Guided Exercise
Explore how attachment lives within your body through a powerful visualization exercise. Learn to recognize the physical sensations of safety and distress in relationships, grounding the theory in personal experience.
Explore how attachment lives within your body through a powerful visualization exercise. Learn to recognize the physical sensations of safety and distress in relationships, grounding the theory in personal experience.
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Unmet Attachment Needs and Negative Cycles
Unmet attachment needs are both a cause and a symptom of relationship problems. This lesson unpacks how negative cycles arise, perpetuating emotional pain and disconnection between partners.
Unmet attachment needs are both a cause and a symptom of relationship problems. This lesson unpacks how negative cycles arise, perpetuating emotional pain and disconnection between partners.
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Negative Cycles: A Guided Exercise
This hands-on exercise helps you and your partner uncover how unmet attachment needs fuel negative cycles. By mapping out triggers, unmet needs, and reactions, you’ll gain empathy and insight to disrupt harmful patterns.
This hands-on exercise helps you and your partner uncover how unmet attachment needs fuel negative cycles. By mapping out triggers, unmet needs, and reactions, you’ll gain empathy and insight to disrupt harmful patterns.
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Attachment Styles
Attachment styles shape how we respond to relationship challenges, influencing our emotions, behaviors, and connection patterns. This lesson explores the four attachment styles and their impact on relationships.
Attachment styles shape how we respond to relationship challenges, influencing our emotions, behaviors, and connection patterns. This lesson explores the four attachment styles and their impact on relationships.
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Exploring Your Attachment Style: A Reflective Exercise
This exercise helps you uncover your unique attachment style by reflecting on disconnection triggers, bodily reactions, and behavioral patterns. Gain self-awareness and deepen your understanding of attachment theory.
This exercise helps you uncover your unique attachment style by reflecting on disconnection triggers, bodily reactions, and behavioral patterns. Gain self-awareness and deepen your understanding of attachment theory.
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Anxious and Avoidant Dynamics in Relationships
Explore the interplay between anxious and avoidant attachment styles, along with the dynamics of disorganized and secure responses in conflict. Learn how these patterns affect communication and connection.
Explore the interplay between anxious and avoidant attachment styles, along with the dynamics of disorganized and secure responses in conflict. Learn how these patterns affect communication and connection.
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Childhood Environments
Attachment styles are shaped by the emotional environments of childhood. This lesson explores how different experiences in upbringing contribute to the formation of anxious, avoidant, disorganized, and secure attachment styles.
Attachment styles are shaped by the emotional environments of childhood. This lesson explores how different experiences in upbringing contribute to the formation of anxious, avoidant, disorganized, and secure attachment styles.
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From Childhood to Romantic Relationships: Attachment Styles in Action
Attachment styles often carry over from childhood into adult romantic relationships, influencing how couples navigate connection, conflict, and emotional support.
Attachment styles often carry over from childhood into adult romantic relationships, influencing how couples navigate connection, conflict, and emotional support.
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Exploring Your Relationship with Yourself
Our relationship with ourselves shapes how we experience emotions, meet our needs, and connect with others. Understanding your self-attachment style provides insight into how you treat yourself and expect others to treat you.
Our relationship with ourselves shapes how we experience emotions, meet our needs, and connect with others. Understanding your self-attachment style provides insight into how you treat yourself and expect others to treat you.
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Closing Thoughts
Wrapping up the course on Attachment Theory with practical tools to enhance understanding and connection.
Wrapping up the course on Attachment Theory with practical tools to enhance understanding and connection.
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Discover Your Attachment Style: Quiz
Identify your attachment style with our comprehensive quiz, designed to give you deeper insights into your relationship patterns and emotional needs.
Identify your attachment style with our comprehensive quiz, designed to give you deeper insights into your relationship patterns and emotional needs.
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Hosted by…
Julie Menanno MA, LMFT, LCPC
Julie Menanno MA is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Relationship Coach. She earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles, CA. She currently has a clinical therapy practice treating couples in Bozeman, Montana, as well as a relationship coaching practice with a staff of coaches who serve clients all over the globe. Julie is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and specializes in working with attachment issues within relationships.
While Julie’s first passion is treating couples, she also provides invaluable relationship insights and advice to over 1 million followers on Instagram. Julie’s best selling book “Secure Love” was published by Simon and Schuster in January of 2024. In addition to her work as an author and social media creator, Julie hosts a bi-weekly discussion group on a variety of relationship and self-help topics. She is a public speaker and a regular guest on podcasts.
Want to do this work with Julie?
Join Julie and a group of fellow couples and individuals in bi-weekly meetings held on Wednesdays at 6pm Mountain Time. This group offers a unique opportunity to interact with Julie directly, ask questions, and engage in discussions on a variety of topics. As a member, you'll have access to all previous meeting recordings, ensuring you never miss a moment. Julie will spend approximately half of each meeting sharing a slideshow on a topic of her choice.
In this session, Julie Menanno discusses why vulnerability often feels unsafe for some individuals and how it impacts relationships.