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

When the time comes that I am no longer bonded by my beliefs but begin to feel shackled to them, then they are the beliefs of someone else that I have been sentenced to.

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I came with the intent of uncovering why I have been turning to food/ punishing with food and I connected it with how out of touch I am with my feelings and being true to my inner child.  I focus on others and take on their issues - it’s not my responsibility to fix others! I am not in control of others' actions. My intention now - highest priority is to love and pay attention to my inner child. 


Anonymous

"This workshop was profoundly enlightening, beyond merely understanding myself, into direct contact and experience of Self and Spirit. I had been out of touch for so long - my [inner] child feels so desperate to love and be loved - this workshop brought me deeper into the truth. [Margaret was] A-one, tops, the best! Totally present, open, giving, loving. Thank you." Rowe, MA Workshop, April, 2000
Chris Slawinski

I need longer to write about my experience because it was so amazing I can’t write in such a small space in a short amount of time.  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  I love you!  Wow!  I learned so much and know my destiny is to teach self-love to everyone willing to listen. -2019


Shanti

“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

"[The Inner Bonding Workshop] put me back on the path of doing the work and will move me past the 'stuck' place I was in!" Workshop at Kripalu in MA, July, 1999
Patricia Izzi

'It has been helpful to see the process worked in front of a group, to see others experiences, as well as working in small groups.  Sharing each others experiences, strength & hope.  Margaret defined over & over the differences of the Loving Adult & the Wounded Child & that has been very helpful as I have struggled with this concept.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.12
 


Melisa Seely



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DAILY INSPIRATION

When the time comes that I am no longer bonded by my beliefs but begin to feel shackled to them, then they are the beliefs of someone else that I have been sentenced to.

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