Attachment and relationships

We were never taught how to build lasting, emotionally healthy friendships. Learn what makes a good friend, how to deepen connection, and why quality matters more than quantity.

Explore why needing, controlling, or chasing love doesn’t create true connection. Learn how to stop over-functioning and start building secure, mutual relationships.

Discover how assertiveness, flexibility, and curiosity create secure, emotionally healthy relationships. Learn why this powerful trio builds trust, safety, and lasting love.

Learn how catastrophizing damages relationships and why anxious spirals after conflict are common. Get tools to reframe, reconnect, and build secure love.

He said you were the one, until he went back to what was familiar. Emotional tethering keeps you stuck in false hope. Here’s why some people choose safety over depth, and how to break free from the confusion.

Why are women so often the emotional glue in relationships, planning, initiating, fixing, trying, until they finally burn out? Here’s what happens when connection becomes one-sided, and how real partnership can begin again.

Many relationships suffer quietly when one partner checks out emotionally. This blog explores why distance happens, why no one talks about it, and what to do when your connection feels numb, quiet, or lost.

Disconnection in a relationship doesn’t mean it’s over. It’s a sign to slow down, turn toward each other, and begin again. Here's how to find your way back before it feels too late.

Feeling emotionally distant from your partner? Learn how to rebuild intimacy, trust, and emotional safety in your relationship using attachment-informed strategies and simple, powerful reconnection tools.

Why do so many men stay in unhappy marriages even after falling for someone else? Learn the psychological and emotional reasons behind this common dynamic and how we can build a culture of emotional maturity, self-trust, and integrity in relationships.

The moment I stopped abandoning myself didn’t look like a breakthrough, it looked like stillness. This blog explores the quiet turning point when healing begins not in chasing love, but in choosing your own worth. For anyone ready to return to their secure self.

When I moved to Vancouver, I knew no one. But within days, a group of women from around the world welcomed me like family. No small talk. No cliques. Just presence, laughter, and open arms. It reminded me that real friendship still exists, and we can all learn from how expats build it.

People are turning to AI for connection, not just convenience. Explore how this trend reveals a growing crisis of loneliness, especially for boys, and what real secure attachment offers instead.

Attraction can feel powerful; but not all sparks are safe. Learn how to tell the difference between true connection and trauma-based chemistry with this grounded guide.

Attachment isn’t just about your past. Learn how your inner world and the social systems around you shape connection, and how healing must address both.

Think you’re emotionally broken? You’re not. You’re dysregulated. Here’s why your nervous system is behind your patterns, and how to start dating from calm, not chaos.

Still stuck in a situationship that never had closure? Here’s why your nervous system keeps replaying it, and how to let go with clarity.

Ghosting leaves us confused, anxious, and doubting our worth. But dogs? Dogs never disappear without a trace. They teach us what secure love really looks like: present, loyal, and unafraid of closeness. This isn’t just about pets, it’s about healing our attachment wounds and learning how love should feel. Read on for a cozy, surprising take on what your dog already knows about connection.

For years, I worked with clients who had done all the “right” things: therapy, self-help, growth work, and still felt stuck. What was missing? Integration and forward motion. That’s why I combine counselling and coaching: to help you heal the past and build what’s next. Because real change doesn’t come from insight alone, it comes from feeling safe enough to move forward. At Beacon Hill, we do both.

What if neurodivergence held the key to secure attachment? A raw, thoughtful reflection on ghosting, presence, and emotional safety, from a mother and counsellor's heart.