Digging Deep

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Written By Julie Menanno MA, LMFT, LCPC

Understanding Your Attachment Style & Tools & Strategies To Help Develop a Secure Relationship With Yourself & Your Partner

 Julie Menanno also known as the “The Secure Relationship” on instagram discusses:

  • What is emotionally focused therapy?

  • How do we understand attachment types from an evolutionary perspective?

  • How are our attachments formed in our early development?

  • Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized  

  • Why an overbearing parent can lead to an anxious or avoidant attachment style

  • What is happening to us individually within each of these attachment styles?

  • Strengths and weaknesses we experience as adults within these styles of attachment?

  • How anxious and avoidant attachment styles can work through the online dating environment and how to pay more attention to our felt experiences?

  • How do couples work through relational issues when attachment styles are conflicting?

  • Why  almost 100% couples fall into an anxious and avoidant match

  •  What are attachment wounds and how do we work through them?

  • How do we get stuck in a shame spiral?

  • How does emotional validation play a part in all of this?

  •  How our projections are related to our attachment styles?

  • Intra-psychic blocks vs. Inter-psychic blocks

  • What you can expect from her book “Secure Love”

About

Each of our lives is compiled of stories. Each Monday, Dr. Shokrian will help you dig deeper into those stories. In each episode, you will hear raw, uncensored stories by people like you. We'll also hear from experts in the field to help us detangle some of these narratives. Tune in and be sure to subscribe.
Dr. Sasha Shokrian holds a masters and doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has a passion for quantum theory, as well as expertise in attachment theory, and is invested in helping people understand their own stories better, from childhood and onward.

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Julie Menanno MA, LMFT, LCPC

Julie Menanno, MA is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and Relationship Coach. Julie operates a clinical therapy practice in Bozeman, Montana, and leads a global relationship coaching practice with a team of trained coaches. She is an expert in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples and specializes in attachment issues within relationships.

Julie is the author of the best-selling book Secure Love, published by Simon and Schuster in January 2024. She provides relationship insights to over 1.3 million Instagram followers and hosts The Secure Love Podcast, where she shares real-time couples coaching sessions to help listeners navigate relational challenges. Julie also hosts a bi-weekly discussion group on relationship and self-help topics. A sought-after public speaker and podcast guest, Julie is dedicated to helping individuals and couples foster secure, fulfilling relationships.

Julie lives in Bozeman, Montana, with her husband of 25 years, their six children, and their beloved dog. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, skiing, Pilates, reading psychology books, and studying Italian.

https://www.thesecurerelationship.com/
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