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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!
In this episode, we explore the different attachment styles, conflict and repair, vulnerability in relationships, breaking cycles in relationship dynamics, boundaries and open communication, and more.
Yes, you can work on healing your attachment wounds even if you're not in a relationship.
Julie will explain what all of that means in the episode, and how we can work towards bringing a secure attachment to our relationships.
Attachment styles affect the intimacy in our relationships, which is why it is important to know what your attachment style is.
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.
Discover the transformative power of secure attachment in your marriage as Julie delves deep into the heart of relationship dynamics.
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.
In long-term relationships, partners often find that they’re having the same fights over and over again.
Julie Menanno joins The Decoding Success Podcast to help us develop healthy, secure relationships while building everlasting love.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Our success in stepmotherhood begins with the relationships with our partners.
Are outbursts, a chronic lack of trust, and an unpredictable fluctuation between avoidant and anxious behavior a sign of disorganized attachment?
1 in 2 humans have a 'secure attachment style'. The remaining 1 in 2 humans are either 'anxious', 'avoidant' or 'disorganised'...
Julie's tips: 3 easy things you can do today to build toward 'The Secure Relationship’ you desire
What is emotionally focused therapy? How do we understand attachment types from an evolutionary perspective? And much more!
Negative cycles quietly weave partners into the very conflict they want to escape. Learn to notice the pattern—and the soft first moves that loosen its grip.
In this session, we explore what it really means to “expect too much” in a relationship. Julie talks about how sometimes, without realizing it, we lean too heavily on our partner to manage emotions we haven’t yet learned to hold ourselves. This can show up as constant venting, needing endless reassurance, or expecting our partner to join us in unhealthy ways of coping.... like over controlling, avoiding, or shutting down.
In this session, Julie explores the often unspoken question: Am I carrying too much of the emotional weight in my relationship? She breaks down what emotional work really means—offering support, creating space for connection, showing vulnerability—and helps you identify when it starts to feel one-sided or unsustainable.
Julie guides you through why these patterns develop, what they might be protecting, and how to begin shifting out of them. Whether you tend to over-function or struggle to engage emotionally, this conversation offers a clear, grounded path toward more balance, clarity, and connection.
In this meeting, Julie dives into the crucial role of emotional safety and communication during disagreements. She highlights how it's not the disagreement itself, but how couples handle it that truly matters. Learn how being open, curious, and validating each other's emotions can help maintain a safe space for constructive conversations.
Julie also explores how small arguments often mask deeper emotional needs, like wanting to feel heard or valued. She addresses how different attachment styles (anxious versus avoidant) can influence communication and encourages couples to better understand each other’s emotional needs.
Julie Menanno pinpoints the hidden trio—unmet needs, fear, and negative cycles—that keep partners spinning in place, and shares the first tiny moves that push a relationship forward again.