INTIMACY IN MARRIAGE RETREAT FOR CHRISTIAN COUPLES
Intimacy in Marriage
2-Day Couples’ Intensive Workshop | In-Person | For Couples
Do you feel like roommates with your spouse? Are you stuck in recurring conflict? If you’re desperate for love to be restored and searching for guidance, our Intimacy in Marriage retreat cuts through surface-level counsel to address what really divides you and your spouse. You’ll leave as a changed couple with new understandings and renewed spiritual, emotional, and physical intimacy.
Upcoming Date:
September 25-26: Dallas, TX (2-Day)
TAKE THE FIRST STEP
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KEY BENEFITS OF A FAITH-BASED MARRIAGE RETREAT
What You’ll Learn
Through expert teaching and small group work, you’ll develop practical skills for deeper connection. Key outcomes include:
- Understanding attachment styles and how they shape your relationship
- Mastering conflict resolution techniques that actually work
- Processing how your family of origin impacts your marriage
- Building sexual intimacy without shame or insecurity
- Creating a concrete plan for moving forward together
WHAT TO EXPECT AT OUR CHRISTIAN COUPLES WORKSHOP
Who It’s For
This intensive requires courage and commitment from both partners. Our workshop serves all married or engaged couples, and you’ll get the most from this experience if you’re:
- Willing to be vulnerable and honest about your struggles
- Ready to examine your own contributions to relationship patterns
- Open to biblical principles for marriage restoration
- Committed to doing the hard work of change
- Prepared to invest a few days in your relationship
WHY ATTEND OUR INTIMACY IN MARRIAGE RETREAT?
Why You Should Join
Marriage counseling often costs $150–$250 per session, with couples typically meeting weekly or every other week for several weeks or months. For about the same cost as 5–8 counseling sessions, the Intimacy in Marriage Intensive offers couples two days of focused time to strengthen their marriage through biblical teaching, professional guidance, and practical tools.
Without intentional work, marriages drift into patterns of avoidance, shallow connection, and quiet resentment. This intensive helps you to break those cycles. Through this experience, you can:
- Learn how to grow closer together—not just tolerate each other
- Find guidance that speaks directly to the issues you’re facing
- Learn the path through surface-level peace to true intimacy
- Gain tools for navigating conflict without destroying connection
- Create a thriving relationship that reflects God’s design for marriage
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RETREAT
FAQs
This intensive is designed for couples at all stages—from those considering divorce to those wanting to deepen an already strong marriage. Our facilitators have seen marriages come back from the brink.
Early registration is $1,200 per couple (14+ days before). The regular rate is $1700 per couple (less than 14 days before).
- Six teaching sessions
- Five small group process sessions, each an hour long, that are facilitated by a credentialed New Life network counselor (5 hours)
- One private 30-minute session with your group facilitator
- Two meals: Friday lunch and Saturday lunch (Friday and Saturday breakfasts and dinners are on your own to give each couple private time to share and connect.)
- All program materials
Hotel accommodations are not included for each event, but a group rate has been negotiated with the host hotel.
No childcare is provided, and children are not permitted to attend any part of the intensive.
Yes, engaged couples are welcome to attend the Intimacy in Marriage workshop. We encourage couples to build healthy relationship patterns and communication skills before marriage rather than waiting until problems arise.
Yes, both spouses are required to attend the Intimacy in Marriage workshop together. The program is specifically designed for couples to work through challenges and build intimacy as a team, making joint participation essential for the process to be effective.
While not required, we strongly encourage it. Staying on-site eliminates distractions and allows for deeper focus on your relationship work.
September 25-26 in Dallas, TX – Book your hotel.
- Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.
- Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Attendance for all sessions is required.
Led by licensed Christian counselors, these sessions help you process what you’re learning and apply it to your specific situation. You’ll share with other couples and receive personalized guidance.
This is an immersive, concentrated experience. Instead of weekly sessions over months, you’ll have several days of focused work with immediate application and breakthrough.
New Life offers one-on-one counseling with licensed professionals to help you continue your journey to true intimacy as well as Sustained Healing online groups.
If you cancel 14 days or more prior to the intensive, you will receive a refund of the amount you’ve paid minus an administration fee of $200 per person. If you cancel less than 14 days before the start of the intensive or simply do not show up for the intensive, no refund will be given.
About the Presenters
Becky Brown
President of New Life
Becky is a licensed professional clinical counselor who has been with New Life for over 20 years and now serves as our president. She began work with New Life Clinics in private practice and was part of the New Life counselor network from its beginning. She currently leads counseling and recovery groups and trains counselors. Becky is a speaker and the coauthor of Understanding and Loving a Person with Bipolar Disorder, 100 Days to Freedom from Fear and Anxiety, and 100 Days to Freedom from Anger. Becky is a co-producer and writer for Life Recovery Today TV. Becky and her husband, Bruce, live in Ohio and enjoy spending time with their adult kids and grandchildren — usually on a boat on the lake.
JJ West
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Originally from Central Florida, JJ received his masters and specialist degrees in counselor education from the University of Florida. With New Life, JJ is a speaker at the Every Man’s Battle intensive workshop and is co-host of the Every Man’s Battle podcast. Before becoming a therapist, he worked for several years on staff with a church and a Christian organization working with college students. He is married and has two children. He enjoys outdoor adventures with his family, traveling to other cultures, good movies, and Florida State University sports.
Laura Mangin-McDonald
Licensed Professional Counselor
Laura has over 35 years of experience helping people heal from early childhood trauma, betrayal, and sexual integrity issues in marriage. She is professionally equipped to walk people through the betrayal recovery process, but her personal experience of successfully recovering after a marriage betrayal carries the most weight. She is the co-founder of Christian Insight For Life, a non-profit teaching and discipleship ministry dedicated to reaching Christians and non-Christians across the globe. And she is the author of the books The Heart Handbook and How You Think Determines the Course of Your Life. Laura is passionately committed to helping women face the crushing reality of betrayal in their marriages and move through the recovery process of healing and hope for the future!
REAL STORIES: HOW THE INTIMACY IN MARRIAGE RETREAT CHANGES LIVES
Intimacy in Marriage Testimonials
Wondering if your relationship can be saved? Despite how you may feel, rebuilding intimacy with your spouse is possible. Watch these stories of redemption to see how God can move in your marriage.
“This workshop is an absolute must for every marriage, regardless of stage. We all need healing and deeper connection with our spouse. New Life’s Intimacy In Marriage workshop provides the tools, resources, and counseling to strengthen your relationship. I highly recommend attending.”
–Robert
“Thank you so much for the thorough follow-up. We love New Life and appreciate your consistent encouragement. The Intimacy in Marriage Intensive was so helpful, we feel like we are walking in a whole new relationship! I called in last week to thank JJ West for the awesome insights. Laura was so relatable and her and her husband showing us practical tools to build better connection through mirroring neurons was so impactful. We came home and showed my parents how to do the Comfort Circle. I don’t think there will ever be an ideal time to get married, but we walked away more confident that we want to do this with God. With Him, all things are possible!!”
–Dani
“God took our dead marriage of dried bones and used New Life to speak life and hope into an impossible situation.”
–Justine
“The intensive was life-changing for us both individually and as a couple. We’ve been in a very different space since attending. The comfort circle has been incredibly helpful in cutting through noise and getting to the heart of issues. While we’re still on our healing journey, we’ve made significant progress and have hope for the future. Thank you for being part of our healing process – it means so much to me, my spouse, our relationship, and our family.”
–My spouse
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TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP THROUGH FAITH & CONNECTION
The New Life Approach to Intimacy in Marriage
True intimacy starts in our hearts, not just in our habits. At New Life, we combine biblical truth with professional counseling to help you build the marriage God designed for you—one marked by vulnerability, trust, and authentic love.
TRUTH
Guidance and wisdom based on God’s Word
Connection
Deep, redemptive relationships that bring healing
TRANSFORMATION
Redeemed lives with renewed perspectives
“My marriage was on its last leg—with no hope and no direction. When my wife told me about the Intimacy in Marriage weekend, I was inches away from a divorce. But now, I want to try. I want to be a better husband, a better father. I want to change my family tree. I want to be more like Christ and give my family a life worth living. Thank you for saving my life.”
–Eric
“The Intimacy in Marriage intensive was so helpful that we feel like we are walking into a whole new relationship!”
–Danielle
“As someone who fought and had every excuse possible not to come, I ultimately came because I saw how important it was for my husband. I keep thanking my husband for insisting on us coming. I can’t put into words how amazing this event is for couples. The tools and eye-opening experiences I have had are life-changing. I will continue to use the tools I learned here to better our marriage. I told my husband that every couple should go through this experience!”
–Alejandra
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