The Secure Love Podcast: Real-Time Couples Therapy in Action

How Listening Can Help Your Relationship

Our real-life couple, Melissa and Drew, are struggling with emotional disconnection, unmet attachment needs, and the same arguments on repeat. Sound familiar?

Melissa has an anxious attachment style. Drew is more avoidantly attached. Over the course of 20 raw, unscripted sessions, you’ll follow their couples coaching journey as they begin to uncover and heal the deeper patterns keeping them stuck.

Throughout each episode, I provide commentary to help you understand what’s happening in real time—from attachment needs and emotional injuries to protective cycles and moments of breakthrough. You’ll see how the philosophy of attachment theory isn’t just helpful for understanding problems—it’s a powerful roadmap for healing them.

And it costs nothing to listen.

You’ll also find free homework PDFs at thesecurerelationship.com, so you can apply what you’re learning to your own relationship.

Whether you're anxiously attached, more avoidant, or somewhere in between, this podcast can help you and your partner:

  • Recognize your negative cycle and the unmet needs driving it

  • Learn to tune into your own triggers and emotional responses

  • Understand how to reach for each other in moments of disconnection

  • Move toward secure functioning, together

The podcast pairs beautifully with my attachment self-help book, Secure Love, and the content I share daily on Instagram.

Related Resources

  • Secure Love Podcast – Listen to all 20 unscripted coaching sessions between Melissa and Drew, with commentary.

  • Free Homework PDFs – Printable exercises to help you apply what you’re learning in each episode.

  • Secure Love Book – Dive deeper into attachment theory and how to create secure love in your own life.

  • Attachment 101 Course – Learn your attachment style and how it shows up in relationships. Includes the Attachment Style Quiz.

  • Relationship Coaching – Get personalized support to work through your relationship challenges.

The podcast is meant to show the philosophy of attachment theory be used not just to understand problems, but to heal them.
— Julie Menanno

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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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