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!
Rikki and Jimmy on Relationships
In this episode we talk to one of our favorite counselors Julie Menanno about how to navigate conflict and create closeness and connection in our relationships.
It Starts With Attraction
Discover the transformative power of secure attachment in your marriage as Julie delves deep into the heart of relationship dynamics.
Seeing Other People
Julie shares advice on how to improve communication in relationships, how to stay connected during conflict, and how to approach difficult situations productively and lovingly.
Sex and Psychology Podcast
In long-term relationships, partners often find that they’re having the same fights over and over again.
Decoding Success Podcast
Julie Menanno joins The Decoding Success Podcast to help us develop healthy, secure relationships while building everlasting love.
As the Leader Grows Podcast
Embark with us as Julie opens up about the power of emotional education in parenting, her battle with anxious attachment, and her quest to cultivate a world nurtured by secure, loving relationships.
Men in the Arena
Guest Julie Menanno joins the Men in the Arena to discuss attachment styles, how they develop and take shape from our childhood, becoming more secure in yourself and your relationship, and the NUMBER ONE thing couples can do to create a relationship that lasts a lifetime.
The Lila Rose Podcast
We explore topics like how to connect with your frustrated spouse, how to approach your child during a tantrum, and what to do when your partner doesn’t want to seek emotional help.
HERself Podcast
Julie breaks down what happens when a couple has an argument and how to help get you back to the ultimate goal in any relationship: feeling safe.v
Bad At Keeping Secrets
Julie helps us make sense of what a “secure” relationship even means, how to turn on our inner felt experience, and why secure attachment is so foundational.
The Smart Girl Tribe
Listen in to hear us talk about: When is the right time to sleep with someone for the first time; When is the right time to ask about exes and former flames; and so much more
Radical Stepmoms
Our success in stepmotherhood begins with the relationships with our partners.
Curious Fox
Are outbursts, a chronic lack of trust, and an unpredictable fluctuation between avoidant and anxious behavior a sign of disorganized attachment?
Roll With The Punches
1 in 2 humans have a 'secure attachment style'. The remaining 1 in 2 humans are either 'anxious', 'avoidant' or 'disorganised'...
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.
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VIDEOS
VIDEOS
In this week’s group, Julie dives into healing attachment wounds and why old pain can make “small” moments feel huge. She breaks down what an attachment wound really is: not just a big event, but often a thousand paper cuts of emotional abandonment that teach your nervous system, “My needs won’t be met.”
You’ll learn Julie’s layered model for why conflicts escalate: the original issue, the unmet need underneath it, the relationship wound that adds fear and grief, and the childhood echoes that make the present feel like the past. Julie then walks through the three essentials for healing: healing conversations (focused on impact, not intention), new behaviors (because trust requires new experiences), and time (because your nervous system has its own timeline).
During the Q&A , we learn how to do grief work for childhood wounds, what “re-parenting” can look like in a way that feels authentic, and how to stay with emotional pain without getting flooded.