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

  1. Exploring Your Ego Wounded Self
  2. Contacting Your Core Soul Self
  3. Discovering Your Loving Inner Adult
  4. Releasing the Anger of the Ego Wounded Self
  5. Learning the Dialogue Processes with the Wounded Self, Core Self, and Personal Spiritual Guidance
  6. Getting Stuck, Getting Unstuck
  7. 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

One of the hardest feelings to feel is that of helplessness over others - over others being mean, judgmental, rejecting and not seeing you or valuing you. Most people would rather get angry, or judge themselves or others, rather than feel this very painful feeling. This feeling needs your deep compassion, which you can give yourself only when you fully accept that you are powerless over how others' feel and behave.

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"Incredibly useful system for having deep conversation with our guidance and ourselves.  Dr. Paul has distilled a wonderful method that labels the parts of ourselves so we can make order of what goes on inside ourselves.  I have found this so helpful in making choices in my life at a time of major transection.  I have been a caretaker that gave little attention or respect to my own needs.  This is a way for the healthy parts of myself to take the lead.  I love Inner Bonding.  It has and will change my life for the better to become more authentic."


Sarah L

"After doing Inner Bonding for six months it was valuable to hear the process explained from beginning to end.  Being new to this process it was amazing to share this process so intimately with others." Kripalu Workshop, Lenox, MA, 10/09
Linda Montecalvo

"I LOVED this week-end Workshop. This is the second one I've taken and I still got a tremendous amount of benefit from this experience. I'm so grateful for this work." L.A. Workshop, 12/06
Julie Sponsler

It helped me understand the process more.  I took the “Love Yourself” course and this workshop continued the learning.  It was a more in depth experience.  Rally understanding it.  Dr. M. Paul answers your questions.  I learned from others questions and answers.  She gave examples that were relative to me.  I thank Margaret for sharing her Inner Bonding process to the world.  April 2019


Darlene M

'This workshop was life changing.  I wish that I had found this workshop sooner.' Kripalu Workshop - Lenox, MA, 9.13


Jacquelyn Donahoe

'This was the greatest thing I ever did for myself.  Taking this step forward knowing that I have a tool box with all the tools I need to start my Journey.  I would recommend this to anyone that wants to start loving themselves.'  Weekend Workshop - Kripalu - Lenox, MA 9.14


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DAILY INSPIRATION

One of the hardest feelings to feel is that of helplessness over others - over others being mean, judgmental, rejecting and not seeing you or valuing you. Most people would rather get angry, or judge themselves or others, rather than feel this very painful feeling. This feeling needs your deep compassion, which you can give yourself only when you fully accept that you are powerless over how others' feel and behave.

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INNER BONDING EVENTS

Inner Bonding Events

03/25/2026 08:00 AM
5-Day Virtual Intensive
Dr. Margaret Paul

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