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

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'I read the Inner Bonding steps before I came, but now I understand them much better.  I can identify my wounded self now and I understand what my core feelings are.  I was feeling very lonely and my wounded self was telling me I was unloveable and I would be alone forever.  I am learning that I am loveable and I have the ability to make myself happy.  I don't need others to bring happiness to me.'  Weekend Workshop - Anaheim Hills, CA 3.14


Judy Catherall

'The Workshop is a comprehensive and personalized presentation of Inner Bonding - a thorough, practical approach and technique.  I gained confidence in doing the 6 steps and benefited from Margaret's energy and experience.  I recommend the Workshop because it is a perfect way to learn Inner Bonding and become more practiced, so as to take home the skills.  I loved being around people who want to learn and grow and are on a path of healing.  It is like salve for the soul!' Los Angeles Weekend Workshop, 3.11
Lisa Devine

"The Inner Bonding workshop saved my life. I was just diagnosed as being bipolar and had been out of work on disability. I now feel I can take care of myself, love myself and face any challenges I come across by utilizing the Inner Bonding process." Omega Workshop, 5/04
Audra Schlosser

"The strongest piece I received is how disconnected I am with my Inner Self and why. My commitment to myself is to work through the why - the fears. My hope is that once this happens, I will be able to stay in my body and be present. A process I will use. [Margaret was] great, interesting, entertaining, informative." Toronto Workshop, April, 2000
Ejay Russel

This workshop is a game changer.  A life-changing experience in which I learned to open up to long–buried hurt from childhood and to understand and recognize how my behavior has been a direct result of my childhood defense mechanism, which I was completely unaware.  The Kleenex boxes were very welcome and appreciated!  Really appreciated the compassion, warmth and professionalism expressed by Dr. Margaret. 


Amanda D

'This was a wonderful experience.  Having done a bit of inner growth with other people, I had many similar beliefs and techniques, so this was a great segue into Inner Bonding which provides a concrete step by step procedure for loving ourselves and others. Margaret was fabulous—clear, warm, human, humble and very knowledgeable.  Thank you!' Los Angeles Inner Bonding Workshop, 4.12


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