The Emotional Cycle and the Sex Cycle
Understand the patterns shaping your emotional and sexual connection so you can build a relationship that feels more secure, connected, and alive.
September 19, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET) | Live Online Workshop
Includes two live Q and A sessions later in the week
Join this live, full-day workshop with Julie Menanno and George Faller to understand how the emotional cycle and the sex cycle shape your relationship. This experiential training will help you identify the patterns driving disconnection, conflict, and intimacy struggles so you can move toward more safety, clarity, and connection. Early registration is offered at a reduced rate for a limited time. Once the early bird period ends on June 15th, pricing will increase to $499.
If this feels familiar, you’re not alone….
If you feel close in some moments but disconnected in others…
If conversations about intimacy turn into pressure, shutdown, or misunderstanding…
If conflict outside the bedroom seems to affect connection inside it…
If one of you feels rejected while the other feels overwhelmed…
There may be a pattern underneath it that you have not been able to see yet.
What is happening underneath your relationship
What happens in your emotional connection affects your sexual connection.
What happens in your sexual connection affects the rest of your relationship, too.
Most couples try to solve these as separate problems. They work on communication, or they try to fix intimacy, but the same patterns keep repeating.
Not because you are doing something wrong.
But because the cycle underneath it has not been clearly understood yet.
When you can see the cycle, things start to make sense.
And when things make sense, change becomes possible.
What you will walk away understanding
After this workshop, you will be able to:
recognize the exact cycle you get stuck in
understand what is happening underneath conflict and disconnection
make sense of pressure, avoidance, rejection, and shutdown
talk about emotional and sexual connection with more clarity
respond to your partner in ways that create more safety
feel more direction instead of confusion in your relationship
This workshop is for you if
you feel stuck in the same patterns and don’t know how to change them
one of you wants more connection while the other feels overwhelmed
conversations about sex turn into pressure, frustration, or shutdown
you feel emotionally or physically disconnected
you want to feel closer, but don’t know how to get there
What makes this different
Most relationship advice focuses on communication skills or surface-level tools.
This workshop focuses on the deeper cycle underneath both emotional and sexual disconnection.
Instead of trying to fix isolated problems, you will learn how to understand the pattern that keeps showing up between you.
When you understand the cycle, you stop seeing each other as the problem.
And you start seeing what is actually happening between you.
That is where real change begins.
Why learn from Julie Menanno and George Faller
This workshop brings together two leading voices in attachment and relationship work.
Julie Menanno helps people understand emotional cycles, attachment patterns, and how to create safety and connection.
George Faller specializes in how emotional connection and sexual connection are deeply linked, and how couples can move out of disconnection in both.
Together, they help you see the full picture of your relationship in a way that is rarely taught in one space.
Learn from Two Leading Experts in Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
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Julie Menanno
Julie Menanno is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), relationship coach, and the author of Secure Love. She is the founder of The Secure Relationship, a global relationship coaching practice rooted in attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
Julie specializes in helping individuals and couples understand their emotional patterns, identify negative cycles, and build more secure, connected relationships. She has built a global audience of over a million people by translating complex relationship dynamics into clear, practical, and deeply relatable insights.
She is also the host of The Secure Love Podcast, where listeners get a behind-the-scenes look at real relationship dynamics and the process of creating deeper emotional connection.
Through her coaching programs, workshops, and widely shared content, Julie helps people move out of reactivity and into emotional responsiveness, co-regulation, and lasting intimacy.
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George Faller
George Faller, LMFT, is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor, and co-founder of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a leading voice in attachment-based couples work.
George has trained therapists around the world and is widely recognized for helping couples understand and transform emotional and relational patterns. He is the author of Brave Love and Great Sex, which explores how emotional connection and sexual connection are deeply intertwined in relationships.
He is also the co-host of the Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast, where he explores the intersection of emotional connection and sexual intimacy in relationships.
George specializes in helping couples integrate emotional and sexual connection, guiding them to move out of disconnection and into relationships that feel more secure, engaged, and alive.
What the experience will be like
This is a live, guided, experiential workshop.
You will not just learn concepts. You will begin to see your own patterns more clearly and understand what is happening underneath them.
The workshop is designed to feel emotionally safe.
You will not be required to share anything publicly that you are not comfortable sharing.
You can engage at your own pace while still gaining meaningful insight.
Workshop details
Date: September 15
Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)
Format: Live online
What you are getting
7+ hours of live teaching and guided experience
two follow-up sessions to help you integrate what you learned
insight into both emotional and sexual cycles
a clearer understanding of your relationship dynamic
a new way of responding to each other
Your registration includes:
full-day live workshop
two additional 1-hour Q and A sessions later in the week
guided teaching and experiential support
Pricing
Early Bird Registration: $350
Available through June 15
Standard Registration: $499
Your registration includes the full workshop plus two Q and A sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This workshop is for couples and individuals who want to better understand the patterns shaping their relationships, especially the connection between emotional disconnection and sexual disconnection.
You do not need to be in crisis to benefit. This workshop is a good fit for people who feel stuck in recurring patterns, want more clarity about their relationship dynamic, or want to create more safety, intimacy, and connection.
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No. While much of the material will be especially relevant for couples, individuals are also welcome.
If you are single, in a relationship where your partner is not attending, or simply wanting to understand your own patterns more deeply, this workshop can still be very valuable.
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Yes. You are welcome to attend on your own.
Many people gain meaningful insight even if their partner is not attending. Understanding your own emotional and relational patterns can help you shift the way you show up in your relationship.
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The workshop is designed to be thoughtful, grounded, and emotionally safe.
Julie and George both approach this work with care, clarity, and deep respect for the vulnerability involved. The goal is to help participants better understand their patterns without shame, blame, or pressure.
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This workshop may be especially helpful for people navigating recurring conflict, emotional distance, shutdown, defensiveness, pressure, rejection, longing, resentment, or difficulty feeling connected emotionally or sexually.
It is designed to help participants understand the cycle underneath these struggles so they can move toward more clarity, connection, and responsiveness.
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That is very common.
This workshop is not about blaming one partner or putting anyone on the spot. It is designed to help both people understand the cycle they are caught in and the deeper needs, fears, and protective patterns underneath it. Many people find this approach feels safer and more accessible than traditional relationship advice.
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No. This is an educational and experiential workshop.
Julie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and George is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and certified EFT trainer. However, this workshop is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. It is designed to teach, guide, and support participants in understanding relationship patterns more deeply.
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Early bird registration is $350. Standard registration is $500.
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Registration is non-refundable.
If you want, you can add additional language here about transfers, credits, or recording access depending on how you plan to handle those situations.
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The workshop is designed to help participants understand how these two areas of relationship life shape each other.
Rather than treating emotional connection and sexual connection as separate topics, Julie and George will help participants see how they interact, how disconnection in one area affects the other, and how healing in one area can support the other.
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Most relationship workshops focus mainly on communication skills or conflict management. This workshop goes deeper.
Julie Menanno and George Faller will help participants understand how emotional and sexual patterns interact and reinforce each other. The focus is on the deeper cycle underneath disconnection, so participants can move out of blame and toward more safety, bonding, and intimacy.
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This workshop explores the connection between the emotional cycle and the sex cycle.
Rather than focusing on sexual technique or performance, Julie and George will help participants understand how attachment needs, emotional safety, conflict patterns, vulnerability, and relational dynamics shape intimacy.
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Julie and George bring complementary strengths to this work.
Julie Menanno is known for helping people understand emotional patterns, attachment dynamics, co-regulation, and the negative cycles that shape connection. George Faller is widely known for his work in Emotionally Focused Therapy and for helping couples understand the powerful connection between emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy.
Together, they offer a grounded, experiential approach to helping people understand both the emotional cycle and the sex cycle in a deeper and more integrated way.
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This is a live, guided, experiential workshop.
Participants can expect teaching, guided reflection, structured exercises, and opportunities to better understand their own emotional and relational patterns. The workshop is designed to help you not only learn the material, but also begin to apply it in a personal and meaningful way.
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No.
This workshop is designed to feel emotionally safe. You will not be required to share anything you are not comfortable sharing. There may be guided reflection and private partner exercises, but no one will be pressured to disclose personal information publicly.
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Your registration includes the full-day live workshop from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM, plus two separately scheduled 1-hour live Q and A sessions later in the week.
Participants will also receive guided teaching and experiential support from Julie Menanno and George Faller throughout the workshop.
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Yes. In addition to the live workshop, there will be two separate 1-hour Q and A sessions later in the week. This gives participants time to reflect, integrate what they learned, and bring follow-up questions.
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No. You do not need any prior experience or background knowledge.
The workshop will be accessible to people who are new to this work, while still offering meaningful depth for those who are already familiar with attachment theory or relationship growth work.
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No.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to better understand the cycles shaping emotional and sexual connection. Some participants may be in significant distress, while others may simply want to strengthen an already solid relationship and gain deeper insight.