The Inner Bonding Workshop
Heal the cycle of shame and self-abandonment that leads to anxiety, depression, addiction, aloneness and relationship failure. Discover how to love yourself rather than reject yourself, and learn to make your best decisions through consistent connection with your personal source of spiritual guidance.
The innovative Inner Bonding process shows you how to:
- Rapidly heal false beliefs about yourself, others and higher spiritual guidance
- Heal guilt, shame, emptiness and aloneness
- Move beyond self-judgment into self-compassion
- Address the resistance that may be keeping you stuck
- Learn how to heal relationship conflicts and attain the intimacy you've always wanted
This powerful and life-changing process is the result of Dr. Margaret's over 50 years of personal inner work and work with her clients.
Unless you were raised by parents or caregivers who were loving to themselves, each other and to you, you may not have learned how to lovingly manage your painful feelings. As a result, you may be operating from your ego wounded self, controlled by your fears and false beliefs.
Your wounded self may often take over in unloving ways, trampling on your hurts, ignoring them or avoiding them with various addictions and controlling behavior such as:
- Addictions to drugs, junk food, nicotine, alcohol, relationships, work, TV or gaming.
- Co-dependence - trying to control others with anger, violence, guilt or compliance - making others responsible for your sense of safety and worth.
- Staying in your head rather than being present in your body
- Self-judgment, shaming yourself
- Obsessive thinking, ruminating, worrying
- Resistance to self, others, spirit - to taking loving care of yourself
These forms of self-abandonment not only perpetuate fears of rejection, abandonment, aloneness, engulfment or failure, but they can contribute to illness. Inner Bonding is a powerful process for healing self-abandonment and learning to love and value yourself.
Through discussions, exercises and direct work with Dr. Margaret Paul or other Inner Bonding Facilitators, you learn the Six powerful Steps of Inner Bonding.
"Transformational Beyond Words! My heart and soul and true essence overflow with love and gratitude. I'm so eager and excited to go home and do Inner Bonding, and share this with my husband and son, and most of all MYSELF at any given moment." Kripalu Workshop, Margaret Dean Godhard, Mom, Educator, Gainesville, GA
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Format for the Workshop
- Exploring Your Ego Wounded Self
- Contacting Your Core Soul Self
- Discovering Your Loving Inner Adult
- Releasing the Anger of the Ego Wounded Self
- Learning the Dialogue Processes with the Wounded Self, Core Self, and Personal Spiritual Guidance
- Getting Stuck, Getting Unstuck
- Relationships: Handling Conflict and Setting Loving Boundaries
Other Facilitators teaching an Inner Bonding Workshop may change or add to the format.
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The Mini-Workshop
The Mini-Workshop is a shorter version of the Weekend Workshop. The Mini-Workshop offers an overview of Inner Bonding along with demonstrations, questions, and an experience of the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. In addition, participants are taught how to contact their personal spiritual Guidance. See the description of the Weekend Workshop for more details.
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One-Day Workshop
Similar to a weekend workshop, but shorter. Presents an overview of the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. It may include other processes, depending upon the Facilitator conduction the workshop.
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Weekly Workshop
Dr. Margaret Paul offers the Inner Bonding Workshop for two hours weekly over 8 weeks.
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Daily Inspiration
How much energy to do you spend worrying? Worry is a form of control. The wounded self may believe that, "If I worry enough, bad things won't happen," or "If I worry enough, I will come up with the answer and control the outcome." Yet what worry actually does is cause stress in the body, and it cuts you off from the real help that is available - which is from your spiritual Guidance. Today, do not indulge in worry.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
'This workshop, and being with Dr. Margaret Paul, was life-changing! All the concepts and theories I've been learning for years were distilled into the most pivotal take-aways along with actionable steps. I feel so blessed to have been part of this experience. Dr. Paul is an example of the loving adult I aspire to be!' Week-end Workshop - Anaheim Hills, CA 2.15
Marcie Peters
"The Inner Bonding workshop has helped me learn different tools so I can understand my self and others more efficiently. I am happy to say it was a weekend very well spent. I enjoyed myself." Toronto Workshop, April, 2000
Colette Bertrand
My experience has been eye opening. I’ve learned a lot about myself during this process. I’ve also learned about my parents, partner and past traumas. I feel I have the information now to be able to deal with my anxiety and relationship issues in a healthy way now. Margaret, has a beautiful soul! I appreciate Margaret sharing her history, wisdom and insight on life. Thank you for creating Inner Bonding for all of us.
Joy
"The strongest piece I received is how disconnected I am with my Inner Self and why. My commitment to myself is to work through the why - the fears. My hope is that once this happens, I will be able to stay in my body and be present. A process I will use. [Margaret was] great, interesting, entertaining, informative." Toronto Workshop, April, 2000
Ejay Russel
"Love, love, loved the workshop! Working in a small group with other was very helpful. I hope to do more book studies in Missouri in the future. Inner Bonding is a loving, healing process. So Good! I recevied the emails with great articles the I share with my recovering friends. Great food for that. So grateful a friend saw my suffering and recommended your website. Ive been able to heal my traumas and share with others" Kripalu 9.18
Linda Burns
"I wanted to write and again express my appreciation to you for the workshop on Inner Bonding you recently conducted here. All of us involved in putting together the workshop feel that it was a tremendous success. I have heard from several participants that although they had already read your books on the Inner bonding process, having the opportunity to hear you and work with you directly was immensely beneficial."
Larry Bass, Ph.D.
