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
For more workshop testimonials, click here.
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
Every relationship in our lives offers us a gift of growth. Think about your most difficult relationships - family, friends, co-workers. Today, pick one to focus on. How is this person a mirror for you? How do you not take care of yourself around this person? What do you want from this person that you are not giving to yourself?
By Dr. Margaret Paul
'Life-changing. I came to this conference hoping to gain some insight around my relationships with men. I'm learning with an understanding of what holds me back (myself), where my wounded thoughts come from, and how to heal myself. I have the power to change my life, and I 100% commit to making that happen.' Inner Bonding Weekend Workshop, Rowe, MA, 4/10
Angela Lussier
"Wonderful, incredible. Two major epiphanies; one was that my inner child requested a need for bonding from me, hence I now really get the workshop title "Inner Bonding". Two, was that the cherishing I have been feeling, I've missed all my life from my family, I can give to me. Thank you." Kripalu Workshop - Lenox, MA - 5/2001
Jennifer Walden
'Wonderful, important. Tools and focus/attention on how to love Inner Child better than I've ever know how to do. Learned that there is so much more she needs to be given.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.10
Sherry Golden
"Having completed an Inner Bonding workshop it was very rewarding and made me feel like a different person. Because of Inner Bonding I have a better understanding of my inner child, my loving adult and intent to open to love. I will continue Inner Bonding to go deeper into my Guidance for directions." Kripalu Workshop, Lenox, MA, 2009
Sophie Bartkowicz
Comments from Margaret's presentation at the 1997 Psychology of Health, Immunity and Disease Conference sponsored by the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine at Hilton Head, NC.:
"Thank you Dr. Paul, what a gift. Absolutely powerful. What an amazing integration of all I ever knew/learned. It put it all together."
"This was a meaty, wonderful session. She covered content and gave us an experience of it. Loved it!"
"She was great! Have her back! Very moving, helpful process."
"This workshop was exactly what I needed. Puts many things together. Have her back for a longer time."
"I have used your healing aloneness material and they have changed my life. I also use there materials for my ACOA groups and they make such a difference. Thank you."
"This is just the process I needed. I am so grateful and hope-filled - relieved. Thank you so much."
"This was very informative and helpful. An excellent teacher. I will use this in my own practice."
"Dear Margaret, thanks for the 6 step process and the new light of providing a loving guide. I appreciate the meditation for creating/contacting that guide."
"In some ways I feel wakened up again to things I know I need to do: Journal, listen, treat my body and self with loving kindness. Bigger changes - finding a spirit guide for seeing my part in my relationship conflicts. Recognizing the need to value me." Los Angeles, CA - September 2001
Laura Makenna
