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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 Be Emotionally Available – Part Three: Emotional Attunement
When your partner is upset, they don’t always need a solution. Sometimes, what they need most is to know you’re with them in it. That’s emotional attunement—and it can change everything.
What to Do Instead
When your partner shares a concern, like spending habits, it can be tempting to shut down, deflect, or fight back. But emotional safety comes from staying engaged, validating each other, and communicating with clarity.
Are You Emotionally Available?
Emotional availability is the foundation of secure connection. If you're wondering whether you're truly showing up for your partner, here are five ways to deepen emotional presence and intimacy.
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.
From the Relationship Therapist: How I Personally Approach My Relationships
Discover how a relationship therapist navigates her own relationships with authenticity, humor, and a commitment to personal growth.
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.