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Attachment Based Relationship Tips
Looking to strengthen your relationship? Our blog offers expert relationship tips rooted in attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Learn how to identify your attachment style, communicate more effectively, and foster emotional safety with your partner. From overcoming conflict to building deeper trust, our practical advice and tools, created by couples therapist Julie Menanno, are designed to help you move toward a secure and fulfilling connection. Dive in and start transforming your relationships today!
How to Know If You’re Healing or Just Accommodating Your Wounds
Understanding whether you are truly healing your wounds or merely accommodating them can be challenging. Healing involves sitting with your pain and supporting yourself, while accommodating often means avoiding the pain altogether.
Can You Have Both an Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Style?
Attachment styles can be confusing, but in most cases, people lean heavily toward one attachment style in their closest relationships. Learn why you might feel like you have both anxious and avoidant tendencies and what that really means.
Validating Anger: For Yourself and Your Partner
Anger is not the problem—how we respond to it is. Learning to validate your own anger and your partner’s can lead to emotional regulation, deeper understanding, and stronger communication.
Enneagram and Marriage
Whether you're navigating anxious or avoidant patterns, or seeking to build deeper trust, this episode offers hope and concrete steps toward secure, lasting connection.
How Disorganized Partners Can Feel Safe in Relationships
Disorganized attachment can create intense emotional highs and lows in relationships. For these partners to feel safe, they need emotional validation, understanding, clear boundaries, and a partner committed to self-care and honest communication.
How to Break Free from Negative Communication Cycles in Your Relationship
Negative communication cycles are the real enemy of relationships—not your partner. Learn how to identify, interrupt, and prevent them so you can strengthen your emotional connection and resolve conflicts more effectively.
What Does Emotional Safety in a Relationship Really Mean?
Emotional safety is just as real and important as physical safety in a relationship. Learn how emotional validation, presence, and commitment create a secure bond between you and your partner.
What Is Your Sense of Self?
A strong sense of self allows you to move through life with confidence, authenticity, and emotional resilience. Learn how to develop a deeper connection to yourself, accept your flaws, and build more fulfilling relationships.
Splitting vs. Integrating: How to Shift from Extreme Thinking to Balanced Perspectives
Understanding the difference between splitting and integrating can help you develop a healthier, more balanced perspective in relationships. Learn how to move from extreme thinking to a more integrated way of seeing yourself and your partner.
3 Tips to Help Your Anxious Partner Feel More Secure
Anxious partners feel more secure when their relationship needs are met. Learn three practical ways to support your partner in feeling safe, valued, and emotionally connected.
Validation: The Key to Emotional Connection
Validation is the foundation of emotional safety in relationships. Learn how to practice validation to strengthen connection, improve communication, and create a deeper bond with your partner.
Navigating Relationship Challenges: Answers to Common Questions
Understand how attachment styles, boundaries, and emotional security shape your relationships. Learn how to distinguish between anxious fears and intuition, repair negative cycles, and move forward with clarity.
Resolve Conflict Using the D.E.A.R M.A.N. Method
Learn how the D.E.A.R M.A.N. method can help you express yourself clearly, set boundaries, and resolve conflict while maintaining emotional connection in your relationship.
How Do Secure Partners Do That?
Securely attached partners communicate effectively, regulate emotions, and maintain strong boundaries while fostering connection. Learn how these behaviors create thriving relationships.
Why Do Disorganized Partners Do That?
Disorganized attachment can make relationships feel unpredictable and overwhelming. Learn how survival strategies formed in childhood impact adult relationships and discover steps for healing.
Why Do Avoidant Attached Partners Do That?
Understanding why avoidant partners engage in behaviors like appeasing, shutting down, or defending themselves is key to breaking negative cycles. Learn how to transform these behaviors and build a more secure relationship.
Why Do Those with Anxious Attachment Do That?
Anxious attachment behaviors often stem from deep fears of abandonment. Learn why these behaviors feel safe and how to shift toward healthier relationship patterns.
Common Experience of Avoidant Partners: Fear of Conflict
Avoidant partners often struggle with emotions, both within themselves and in relationships. Learn how to reconnect with your emotions and build deeper connections.
Things to Know About Your Relationship And Sex
Sexual intimacy offers numerous physical and psychological benefits, but a healthy emotional connection is the foundation of a fulfilling sex life. Learn how to nurture intimacy and address challenges in your relationship.
How Does Attachment Play a Part in Long Distance Relationships?
Long-distance relationships bring attachment needs into sharp focus. Learn how to strengthen security in your relationship before focusing on the logistics of managing distance.
Julie walks through a framework she uses with couples, illustrating how unresolved emotions, personal wounds, and attachment insecurities impact communication and relationship dynamics. She emphasizes the necessity of emotional awareness, healthy assertion, and processing difficult feelings rather than avoiding or acting out on them.
For those interested in learning how to navigate emotional wounds, assert boundaries, and cultivate healthier relationship dynamics, this session provides valuable insights and practical tools.