Your attachment style shapes how you love, fight, and connect. The Attachment 101 Course helps you understand your emotional patterns—and how to build secure bonds.

Every couple has a negative cycle that hijacks connection. Peek inside Julie’s coaching group to learn the first steps for slowing yours—and find out how to join the next live session.

Avoidant attachment doesn’t mean your partner can’t connect. Learn four key ways to help them feel safe, successful, and emotionally understood.

Anxious partners over-sacrifice. Avoidant partners resist change. Secure partners give for the greater good. Learn how attachment shapes relationship sacrifices.

The emotional patterns you repeat in your relationship often stem from your attachment style. This post outlines common signs of anxious or avoidant attachment.

It may look like the avoidant partner doesn’t care, but in reality, they’re overwhelmed. When conflict escalates, their instinct is to shut down—not to hurt their partner, but to protect themselves.

Avoidant partners aren’t trying to push love away—they’re trying to avoid the shame, fear, and overwhelm of feeling like they’re never enough. Here’s what’s happening beneath the shutdown.

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.

When your partner avoids emotional support, it can feel confusing and lonely. But it often stems from shame, fear, or past conditioning—not rejection. Learn five reasons this happens and how to respond with compassion.

Understanding whether you are truly healing your wounds or merely accommodating them can be challenging. Healing involves sitting with your pain and supporting yourself, while accommodating often means avoiding the pain altogether.

Understand how attachment styles, boundaries, and emotional security shape your relationships. Learn how to distinguish between anxious fears and intuition, repair negative cycles, and move forward with clarity.

Understanding why avoidant partners engage in behaviors like appeasing, shutting down, or defending themselves is key to breaking negative cycles. Learn how to transform these behaviors and build a more secure relationship.

Avoidant partners often struggle with emotions, both within themselves and in relationships. Learn how to reconnect with your emotions and build deeper connections.

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.

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.

Discover why avoidant attachment is linked to fear of failure, how it shapes relationship dynamics, and actionable strategies for healing and connection.

Explore the four attachment styles—secure, avoidant, anxious, and disorganized—and how they shape emotional connection and dynamics in romantic relationships.