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
How often do you take good care of yourself until you are around another person with whom you are in a relationship? How often do you disconnect from yourself and then hope to get love from another? You will feel abandoned whenever you disconnect from yourself, and the other person will feel pulled on to fill you up. Today, practice staying inwardly connected all day.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
“This program is so real and fundamental to human wellbeing. I feel so grateful to have it in my life. It also fits in beautifully with my Buddhist practice. It also feels hard and complicated and important to remember that it’s a process that unfolds over time and commitment and patience. I can’t imagine NOT having it in my life. I feel grateful to have an Inner-Bonding partner to help support me.” -2020
Anonymous
'Great to have reinforcement of Inner Bonding as the primary focus. Enjoyed seeing the counseling demos. Great to hear Margaret's personal experience also. Thanks.' Rowe, MA Workshop, 4/08
Herb Pearce
'Excellent. Really brought shifts I experienced in the evenings after leaving the workshop. Helped clarify areas needing work.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.12
Lauren Mullen
"Having meditated for many years, I already understood that our thoughts are not who we are. But how do we drop the controlling wounded self who is ruled by false beliefs and thoughts? This [virtual] weekend workshop was a crash course on learning the process to rewire our brains to learn the truth of who we are. By doing this 6-step process to uncover our inner child’s feelings, we learn to recognize what is loving to ourselves. What a wonderful blessing and gift to have Margaret leading us though this journey. I can honestly say that since the two-day workshop, I see the world differently. My shoulders get hunched forward – oh that ‘s my wounded self, time to reconnect with my spiritual guidance, ah I’m spending too much time on my phone? What a wonderful journey.
"The workshop was clearly a turning point for me in the understanding how to improve my life. It’s like I got a peek into a new world free released from my judgmental critical wounded self, and insight into what loving action truly means. The format was great, I loved the zoom small group breakout sessions, and the time of day and length of the sessions was perfect.
"This week was very significant for me. I approached life differently. I know I still have a long journey ahead, but I finally see a direction and light at the end of the tunnel.
"Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and experience so freely."
Anonymous
"Life-altering. I've heard new concepts that helped me challenge my old ways of thinking and relating to myself and others. I am happy to share this moment with myself and my partner." L.A. Workshop, 1/08
Ada Fang
“This workshop provided me with tools and insights that have inspired me to deeply love myself and care for myself. Both Margaret and Carla were such gentle, loving and kind guides through this journey and are very passionate about what they do. I recommend this program for anyone looking to deeply heal their relationship with themselves and move from a place of integrity and compassion. Thank you so much!”-2020
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