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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 Personal Anxiety Can Impact Your Relationship
Trying to control your environment—like keeping a spotless house—can sometimes be a way to manage inner anxiety caused by relationship disconnection. But when that strategy backfires, it can create more of the very disconnection you’re trying to avoid. This post explores how personal anxiety shows up in relationships, and how couples can break the cycle.
Your Attachment Style Has So Much to Say…
Each attachment style holds a story—about fear, need, and connection. When we give those stories words, we begin the process of healing, connection, and secure attachment.
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.
Being Emotionally Supportive is NOT the Same as Being Your Partner's Therapist
Being emotionally supportive in a relationship is a skill that can be learned by both partners, not just a job for therapists. Discover how emotional support and engagement can be practiced to strengthen your connection.
Your “Window of Tolerance”
Your window of tolerance is your internal safe space for emotional balance. Learn how to find and stay in this space to improve your well-being, regulate emotions, and build healthier relationships.
Feeling Triggered In Your Relationship?
Feeling triggered in your relationship? Learn these five steps: look inward, self-regulate, balance your perspective, assess timing, and follow through.
How to Help Soothe Your Distressed Partner
Discover how to support your distressed partner effectively with self-regulation, validation, and timing, creating a safer emotional environment for both of you.
When You Have To Ask the Question...Should I End My Relationship?
Wondering 'should I end my relationship'? This guide explores 7 essential steps to evaluate your connection, from unhealed wounds to hope for change.
Why self regulation might not be working
Discover why self regulation might feel out of reach, the barriers that hinder it, and actionable steps to build emotional resilience and connection.
In this session, Julie explores the often unspoken question: Am I carrying too much of the emotional weight in my relationship? She breaks down what emotional work really means—offering support, creating space for connection, showing vulnerability—and helps you identify when it starts to feel one-sided or unsustainable.
Julie guides you through why these patterns develop, what they might be protecting, and how to begin shifting out of them. Whether you tend to over-function or struggle to engage emotionally, this conversation offers a clear, grounded path toward more balance, clarity, and connection.