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

The paradox of our wounded self is that it wants to feel safe so it tries in so many ways to control that which it cannot control, which leads to feeling anxious and unsafe. Surrendering to what is and opening to spiritual guidance creates the peace that will never come from trying to control.

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'This workshop was life changing.  I wish that I had found this workshop sooner.' Kripalu Workshop - Lenox, MA, 9.13


Jacquelyn Donahoe

"Thank you! A wonderful taste of reconnecting with myself - a loving, gentle weekend with some real tools to bring home." Rowe, MA, 4/04
Joe Gelbard

"It was truly transformative and enlightening.  Generous, well-done in terms of not being heavy-handed.  The one-on-ones with Margaret & participants was the most powerful and helpful.  I've never been a 'group' person but learned so much from others." Kripalu Workshop, Lenox, MA, 10/09
Karin Pendley Koser

"I have learned that I don't have to protect myself. I can feel the pain and work through it. I see a great change in my heart and in my body (load lifted off me). I realize there is work, but the hope is greater than the work." Los Angeles Weekend Workshop, 7/04
Sherri Sandoval

"I entered in a lot of inner pain, and today I feel very strong & positive towards personal self-care, growth & becoming a self reliant, loving me." Kripalu Workshop, Lenox, MA, 10/09
Linda Kirshenbaum

'I have been practicing Inner Bonding for about 1.5 years and this is the first workshop that I have attended.  I am very grateful that I did finally attend.  Hearing Margaret explain the principles, and seeing the process in action, helped me to get an even clearer understanding.  Also, as a usually very reserved person, I was very pleasantly surprised to find how safe I felt, and how much I was able to open up and connect with myself and others.' LA Workshop, 3.7.10
Sharon Kidwell



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DAILY INSPIRATION

The paradox of our wounded self is that it wants to feel safe so it tries in so many ways to control that which it cannot control, which leads to feeling anxious and unsafe. Surrendering to what is and opening to spiritual guidance creates the peace that will never come from trying to control.

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INNER BONDING EVENTS

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03/25/2026 08:00 AM
5-Day Virtual Intensive
Dr. Margaret Paul

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