Just Listen To Me!

By Julia Shay

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Description

Welcome to the place where love stops performing and starts telling the truth.

I’m a couples counsellor who works with the real moments of relationships — the disconnection, the misunderstandings, and the deep longing to feel safe and chosen. Using an emotionally focused couples therapy lens, I break down attachment patterns, communication breakdowns, and the cycles that keep couples stuck.

This podcast is for people who care deeply and want to understand what’s actually happening beneath the arguments, silence, or distance — without quick fixes or clichés.

Whether you’re healing your relationship, reconnecting, or breaking generational patterns around love and attachment, this is a space to slow down and grow.

Alongside relationship and attachment education, the podcast also explores narcissistic and coercive relational dynamics, emotional safety, emotionally unsafe systems, and the difference between genuine therapeutic support and dependency or emotional manipulation.

🛍️ The Project Secure Attachment Store is now open.

Created as an extension of the podcast, the store features journals, apparel, mugs, and resources inspired by the themes we explore here each week — emotional safety, secure attachment, healing, self-reflection, and meaningful connection.

Explore the collection at: https://project-secure-attachment.myshopify.com/

Currently 15% off storewide during our launch period.

✨ Explore the growing Project Secure Attachment learning library including online courses, companion eBooks, and attachment-focused relationship resources: Project Secure Attachment Courses

While Just Listen to Me was created to support individuals and couples navigating relationship pain and attachment wounds, many therapists, counsellors, and helping professionals also listen as part of their own attachment-based learning and reflective practice.

You’re welcome here. Let’s build relationships that feel safe, real, and alive.

The stories and relationship dynamics shared in this podcast are always de-identified and adapted to protect privacy and confidentiality. Many examples are composites based on common patterns seen across therapeutic work.


Episode Date
When Addiction Enters the Relationship: Trust, Betrayal and Attachment Wounds
May 29, 2026
Why Love Feels Hard When the Nervous System Is Struggling
May 27, 2026
What Safe Therapy Actually Feels Like
May 22, 2026
Not All Therapy That Feels Powerful Is Emotionally Safe
May 19, 2026
Why Trauma Bonds Happen: Attachment, Trauma & The Nervous System
May 15, 2026
Trauma Bonds: When Love and Fear Become Entangled
May 13, 2026
Not All Therapists Are Safe
May 07, 2026
When ADHD Affects Love: Understanding the Imbalance
May 05, 2026
How to Choose a Couples Counsellor (And What Most People Miss)
May 01, 2026
When He Chases: The Hidden Pain of Male Pursuers
Apr 29, 2026
When Women Withdraw: The Pattern Nobody Talks About
Apr 24, 2026
You’re Not Too Much: The Truth About Pursuers in Relationships
Apr 22, 2026
Why They Pull Away (It’s Not What You Think)
Apr 16, 2026
The Pattern You Keep Repeating? It's Trying to Heal You
Apr 13, 2026
The Relationship Pattern You Can't Escape
Apr 11, 2026
The Pattern Making You Both Feel Alone in Your Relationship
Apr 07, 2026
Your Family System Is Sabotaging Your Relationships - Here's Why
Mar 11, 2026
Time Doesn't Heal This Relationship Injury
Mar 09, 2026
Sexual Rejection Has Nothing to Do With Attraction
Mar 04, 2026
Trauma or Abuse? Why the Difference Saves Your Relationship
Mar 03, 2026
The Family Pattern Destroying Your Relationships
Feb 27, 2026
Hypervigilance After Infidelity | The Nervous System Trap You're Stuck In
Feb 24, 2026
Attachment Wounds: The Pattern Underneath Your Pain
Feb 20, 2026
The Real Enemy Isn't Your Partner — It's This Pattern
Feb 18, 2026
Breaking the Negative Cycle That Took Over Your Relationship
Feb 16, 2026