Inner Bonding

Is your kindness truly coming from love… or from fear? Many of us believe we are being kind when we are actually being “nice” to avoid rejection, conflict, or disapproval. But this form of niceness often leads to self-abandonment—saying yes when we mean no, hiding our truth, and overriding our needs to keep the peace. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores the difference between ego-driven ni...

Is your gratitude practice actually a way of bypassing your pain? Many of us use "being grateful" to please others, but forced gratitude is often just an ego-wounded trap. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores the shift from ego-driven appreciation to the authentic, spiritual gratitude of the Loving Adult. Discover how emotional honesty is the true key to calming your nervous system and diss...

Is your "wounded self" keeping you in a cycle of blame and victimhood? Many people feel trapped in situations they think they can’t control. When this happens, it’s easy to focus on external problems and hope others will change. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explains why this outward focus often keeps people feeling powerless and stuck. She explores how the “wounded self” leads to patterns of...

What if your daily thoughts shape your emotions, relationships, and choices? How could embracing this power change your life? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores emotional responsibility by examining the creative nature of thought. She explains how thoughts generate feelings, influence energy and behavior, and contribute to either peace or suffering. Dr. Paul offers clear insight into how...

Many people believe that their inner child is running their life, but what if that belief is actually keeping them stuck? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul clarifies why this common assumption is not only inaccurate but often harmful to true healing. She explains how Inner Bonding defines the inner child as the soul self—our true essence of love, compassion, creativity, and joy. She contrasts thi...

Guilt and shame are emotions many people carry quietly, often without realizing why they feel so painful or persistent. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul clarifies the essential difference between guilt and shame, and between their healthy and toxic forms. She explains how healthy guilt and shame help guide learning and change, while toxic guilt and shame are rooted in false beliefs about respons...

Are you carrying the weight of shame from your past?  In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul addresses how to heal shame rooted in childhood disobedience, rebellion, or bullying, and why these behaviors are expressions of a wounded self rather than evidence of being a bad person. Drawing on the Inner Bonding® process, Dr. Paul explains how hurtful behavior often develops as a way to manage fear, pain,...

What does it truly mean to take loving care of yourself without guilt? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores the profound difference between surface-level self-care and deep emotional self-responsibility. Moving beyond spa days and external fixes, she invites you into a compassionate understanding of emotional self-care—learning to listen inwardly, honor your feelings, and respond to your in...

Do you experience intense anxiety in social situations? Discover the root cause and how to heal it.

Do you know the difference between fear coming from your own thoughts and when is it coming from real and present danger? Learn to distinguish what fear you can trust and what fear you can’t trust. 

Are you waiting for someone to rescue you? Wait no longer for someone else. Instead, learn to become the loving adult that your inner child has been waiting for.

Discover the underlying cause of the cycle of losing and gaining, and what you can do to permanently lose weight. 

Developing self-worth is an inside job – not something someone else’s approval can give to you. Others love can help you, but not until you are also loving yourself.

Discover the profound healing that occurs when you learn how to heal the false beliefs of your wounded self and reconnect with your inner child – your true soul self. 

Is true partnership with a beloved important to you? This episode will clarify what erodes partnership and what creates it.

Discover how to take loving care of yourself while caring for a friend, partner, or family member who is ill or emotionally dysregulated.

Every day I hear clients say to me, “I am not good enough." This is core shame. Learn how shame can be a way of attempting to have control over others and God.

Underlying all addictive behavior is the intent to avoid painful feelings. Addictions are a major form a self-abandonment, leading to the aloneness and emptiness that often underlie addictive behavior. Practicing Inner Bonding heals addictions.

No one likes our wounded self, and we don’t like others’ wounded self, so when we allow our wounded self to be in charge in our relationships, we are not compatible with anyone.

Our society is more violent than ever. It’s time to understand where violence comes from and what we can each do about it.

Abandonment wounds from childhood abuse, or from being left or ignored, or from being bullied, ridiculed or teased, can be healed within a relationship. 

Do you trust your intuition and your higher guidance? Learning to trust yourself is one of the most important things you can do for yourself, and this podcast will help you learn to do this.

Our feelings are a powerful source of inner guidance, of intuition, of inner knowing. This is why Step One of Inner Bonding is learning to be present in your body with your feelings.

Prayer is a powerful way of staying centered and connected with yourself and your guidance. Discover the many ways there are to pray and meditate that can being you the fullness of peace, joy, and love. 

Are you an authoritarian or permissive parent? Are you overtly or covertly trying control your children. Discover the false beliefs that lead to trying to control your children, what the consequences are, and how else to parent.