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
Today, notice your wounded self with compassion, kindness, curiosity and a light heart. Move beyond judgment and into compassion for this sacred journey toward wholeness. It doesn't matter how far you are on this path - it only matters how you journey.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
"An incredible joy - really supported me to connect to myself again. Gave me the tools to move fully into my loving adult. And to continue this process daily, for myself and for my clients that I support in this work." Kripalu Workshop - Lenox, MA - 5/2001
Eileen Donovan
'I learned about the core feelings—deep down—and why I try to control others. And why I sabotage myself from my own Amazingness!' Los Angeles Inner Bonding Workshop, 4.12
Sonia Chapa
“Initially, I thought Inner Bonding was just another self-help program being peddled to unwitting people in desperate situations. However, Dr. Paul’s knowledge of fear of engulfment was something few other therapists seemed familiar with, so I bit. Glad I did! This program offers you not only insight, but the framework you can use on your own to be self-empowered rather than dependent upon a therapist.”-2020
CEO tech
"We were honored to have you with us a couple of weeks ago, and we thank you for sharing your work with us. I've heard fine things about the workshop, which I always like. I respect the integrity of what you're doing and the way you're doing it...Thank you for doing your work with such creativity, style and grace. The world is a better place for your being alive, and I honor your work and the vision you share with such generosity."
Rowe Conference Center, April 2000
Rev. Douglas Wilson
'Loving, eye opening, heart-opening experience! Through Loving Action, I now move forward. I love myself, and feel like sharing that love - so powerful! Compassionate love is what Margaret is all about and through her Loving Action helps me (us) tap into that love. A true gift, accepted with gratitude. Thank you. I love you.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.12
Synnove Heggoy
"It was truly an amazing experience, and I have learned so much about why I am the way I am." Kripalu Workshop, Lenox, MA, 2009
Korrin Doyle
