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 God
• 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 48 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, food, nicotine, alcohol, relationships, work, TV or video games.
• 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
• Resistance to self, others, Spirit - to taking loving care of yourself

These forms of self-abandonment perpetuate fears of rejection, abandonment, aloneness, engulfment or failure, which heal through the practice of Inner Bonding.

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, 9/08, Margaret Dean Godhard, Mom, Educator, Gainesville, GA

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Format for the Workshop

1. Exploring Your Wounded Self
2. Contacting Your Core Self
3. What is a Loving Inner Adult?
4. Releasing the Anger of the 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.

Dr. Margaret Paul is certified as an OASAS Education and Training Provider.

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.

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.