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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!
When I'm Sorry Isn't Enough: Repairing Trust Beyond Apology
Saying 'I’m sorry' isn’t always enough. Learn how to truly repair trust by understanding, validating, and committing to change in your relationship.
Insecure Attachment Styles and How They Keep You Stuck
Anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment styles often keep partners stuck in negative cycles. Learn how to break free by improving communication, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.
Common Experience of Anxious Partners: The Sense of Over Responsibility
Many anxious partners struggle with over responsibility, feeling the need to control everything to feel safe. Learn how to balance expectations, release control, and build a healthier relationship dynamic.
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.
Relationship Trigger Toolbox: Handle Emotional Reactions
Learn how to handle relationship triggers with self-reflection, regulation, empathy, and effective communication. Use the Relationship Trigger Tool-Box to break negative cycles and foster emotional safety in your relationship.
How Both Avoidant AND Anxious Partners Block Emotional Intimacy
Both avoidant and anxious partners block emotional intimacy in unique but equally intense ways. By understanding these dynamics, couples can begin to break the negative cycle and build a more secure, emotionally connected relationship.
Healthy Assertion vs. Reactive Anger
Reactive anger can trigger negative cycles in relationships. Learn how healthy assertion can shift communication, promote emotional safety, and create space for understanding and compromise.
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.
Spiraling Higher Podcast
If you have ever been in a relationship, or supported someone in one, then you KNOW how distressing it is to deal with feeling like your partner doesn't care about your feelings OR as if their feelings are TOO MUCH.
Is It Time to Seek Professional Support for Your Relationship?
Are you caught in repetitive arguments, facing trust issues, or feeling distant from your partner? Explore how couples coaching can provide the professional support needed to rebuild trust, connection, and intimacy.
How to Navigate Hard Conversations with Your Partner
Hard conversations in relationships can be challenging, but with emotional regulation, empathy, and clear communication, you can create a foundation of safety and teamwork for problem-solving.
How Anger Shows Up in Anxious Attachment, and What Is the Work?
Anger can feel overwhelming and frequent if you have anxious attachment. Learn how this response is rooted in vulnerability, fear, and past wounds, and discover strategies for healing and assertiveness.
How Do Attachment Wounds Get in the Way of Closeness?
Attachment wounds, caused by breaches of trust and ongoing harmful behaviors, can block vulnerability and connection. Discover how to recognize and heal these wounds to strengthen your relationship.
Learn to Love Podcast
What does attachment theory say about how parents should raise their children? What are our adult attachment needs? How can couples break out of negative communication cycles?
Tips for Healing an Insecure Attachment
Learn how to heal an insecure attachment by improving communication, regulating emotions, and building a healthier sense of self.
Emotional Support in Your Relationship
Learn how to build emotional support in your relationship by diversifying support systems and fostering self-support for deeper connection and balance.
The Anatomy of a Trigger (and How to Do Something New)
Explore the anatomy of a trigger and how vulnerability can transform conflict into emotional safety and connection.
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.
Attachment Needs in Action
Explore how attachment needs show up in relationships and why meeting them fosters emotional safety, connection, and trust between partners and friends.
How Expanding Conversations Can Strengthen Your Relationship and Build Secure Attachment
Learn how to deepen emotional intimacy in your relationship by expanding small conversations into meaningful connections, creating secure attachment and a stronger bond.
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.