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!
Digging Deep
What is emotionally focused therapy? How do we understand attachment types from an evolutionary perspective? And much more!
The Anxiety Chicks
This week The Chicks welcome Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Julie Menanno to take a deep dive into how to feel more secure in your relationship...especially if you tend to have an anxious attachment style or struggle with codependency.
The Life and Style Podcast
In this episode, you'll learn about: Why a sense of self is important and how to develop it; What a secure relationship is, and how it differs from codependency; and much more!
Twisted Plot Podcast
In this episode Julie gives great examples of techniques to help those with an insecure attachment style that are trying to gain more regulation to help themselves through those hard times.
The Relationship Advice Podcast
Understanding both our own and our partners attachment styles can go a long way in helping you resolve conflict and improve your relationships.
Tell Me Something True
How many times have you looked at your relationship partner and wondered, “Why do they do that?”

Most couples believe that if they could just get on the same page, their conflicts would finally settle down. The problem is that agreement alone does not guarantee connection. You can agree and still feel unseen. You can disagree and stay deeply bonded.
In this meeting, Emotional Safety vs. Agreement, we will look at conflict through an emotional safety lens. We will explore what emotional safety actually feels like, what happens in the nervous system when safety drops, and how negative cycles begin when you and your partner stop feeling safe with each other.
You will learn:
The difference between emotional safety and agreement
How your nervous system reacts during conflict
How to recognize when safety has dropped between you
Emotional safety scripts you can use in real time
What to say less of and what to say more of when you want connection
How to repair after a moment where safety went missing
Thank you for doing this work with me and for your courage in looking at your patterns with honesty and compassion.