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Inner Bonding
by Margaret Paul PhD
The Inner Bonding Podcast with Dr. Margaret PaulDr. Margaret guides listeners through the transformative mind–body–spirit practice of Inner Bonding®, a powerful self-healing process designed to help you build a loving relationship with yourself, take responsibility for your emotional and physical well-being, and connect with your higher guidance.Through practical teaching, real-life application, and compassionate insight, Dr. Margaret explores how Inner Bonding can help heal anxiety, depression, anger, shame, addictions, and recurring relationship patterns. This podcast is an invitation to move beyond self-judgment and disconnection—and into greater clarity, emotional freedom, and inner peace.By learning to access your inner source of love, truth, and wisdom, you’ll discover how true healing begins from within—and how self-love becomes the foundation for lasting change.
Episodes
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Letting Friendships Fade
Why do friendships fade, and how do you know when it’s time to let go? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores how emotional healing, personal growth, and changing values affect friendships—and how to honor those changes without guilt or self-abandonment. Learn to recognize one-sided...
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Worrying About Things Beyond Your Control
Do you struggle with worrying about things beyond your control? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores how chronic worry fuels fear and disconnects you from the present moment—and how Inner Bonding can help you cultivate self-love, accept uncertainty, and find inner peace. Learn the…
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Clinging to a Job You Hate
Do you feel trapped in a job that drains your energy and deadens your spirit? Dr. Margaret Paul explores why fear, uncertainty, and self-abandonment keep us clinging to work we hate—and how to begin moving toward a more alive, purposeful life. In this episode, you’ll learn the difference between...
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Living Someone Else’s Dream
Are you living your own dream—or following the expectations of parents, partners, or society? Dr. Margaret Paul explores how abandoning your truth for approval can create emptiness, anxiety, and a loss of aliveness. In this episode, you’ll learn how to recognize the subtle signs that you may be...
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Obsessing Over What Others Think of You
Do you constantly replay conversations, wondering if you said the wrong thing or if people like you? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores why obsessing over others' opinions is really about self-abandonment—and how to finally heal it. You'll learn why trying to control what others think of...
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The High Cost of Holding Grudges
Holding grudges can feel protective, but resentment often keeps us emotionally tied to pain, blame, and the past. Dr. Margaret Paul explains how Inner Bonding can help you release resentment and return to peace, self-love, and personal power. In this episode, you’ll learn why grudges form, how…
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Parenting – Being a Role Model for Personal Responsibility
In this episode, you will learn the true definition of personal responsibility beyond chores and rules, uncovering how your emotional regulation and intent shape your child’s behavior. You will discover why common patterns like blaming, people-pleasing, or avoiding conflict teach…
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Relationships – Do You Believe You Can Make Others Change?
Do you believe you can make someone else change? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul reveals why trying to control others backfires—and how shifting your intention from controlling to learning transforms your relationships from the inside out. You'll learn why people resist being controlled, the...
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Re-traumatizing Yourself with Self-Neglect
In this episode, you’ll learn how self-neglect goes beyond ignoring physical needs. Discover how dismissing your emotions, staying silent, overgiving, remaining in unsafe situations, numbing out, and prioritizing others’ feelings can leave your inner child feeling alone and unimportant. You’ll…
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Relationships – How One Person Changing Can Change the Whole System
Relationships are systems: when you change your part of the pattern, the whole dynamic can shift. Dr. Margaret Paul shares how moving from control and blame to learning, self-responsibility, and love can create healthier, more connected relationships. In this episode, you’ll learn why recurring...
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Letting a Child Fail at 10 Rather Than in College
Many parents believe that protecting their children from every struggle is an act of love, but what if that protection is actually preventing them from becoming capable adults? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul clarifies why avoiding natural consequences and over-managing a child's life can lead...
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Intention Matters More Than Words
Control creates stress, while being open to learning creates safety. Control blocks connection, while learning invites it. In today’s episode, Dr. Margaret Paul dives into the topic of intentions and how we can become more aware of the intentions we bring into our relationships. She highlights…
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The Power of Your Intention
The intention we choose in any given moment shapes everything that follows. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores how becoming aware of our intentions can transform the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the choices we make every day. She unpacks the two core intentions in Inner…
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Relationships - Why Explaining Often Doesn’t Work
Have you ever tried to explain yourself in a conflict — and the more you explained, the worse it got? In this insightful and deeply practical episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores one of the most frustrating patterns in relationships: why explaining, defending, and justifying yourself rarely leads…
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Why am I such a mess Understanding Nervous System Dysregulation
Have you ever found yourself asking: why can't I get it together? Why am I struggling so much when others seem fine? In this grounding and compassionate episode, Dr. Margaret Paul offers a profound reframe for anyone who has ever felt like a mess. What you are likely experiencing is not a…
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Self-Care: How to Validate Yourself
What if the most important form of self-care has nothing to do with bubble baths or vacations? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores one of the most overlooked dimensions of true self-care: learning to validate yourself. While external self-care has its place, she explains that no amount of...
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The Most Common Mistakes People Make in Inner Child Work
Are you doing inner child work but still feeling stuck, anxious, or emotionally overwhelmed? In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Margaret Paul addresses one of the most important and most misunderstood topics in the healing space: what inner child work actually is, and the common mistakes that can...
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Inner Bonding: Discerning False Prophets
How do you tell the difference between a true spiritual teacher and someone who is subtly using you? In this timely and thought-provoking episode, Dr. Margaret Paul tackles a topic that is as widespread as it is rarely addressed: spiritual deception. Not the obvious, overt kind — but the subtle...
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What Emotional Responsibility Really Means
What does it actually mean to take emotional responsibility — and why do so many of us get it wrong? In this illuminating episode, Dr. Margaret Paul cuts through the confusion around one of the most misunderstood concepts in personal growth. She explains why emotional responsibility is not...
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How to Create Loving Relationships Without Losing Yourself
Have you ever felt yourself slowly disappearing in a relationship? In this deeply moving episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores one of the most common — and most overlooked — blocks to true intimacy: self-abandonment. She unpacks why so many of us lose our voice, our needs, and our sense of self in...
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Why Affirmations Might Fail Without Inner Bonding
How often do you say an affirmation, but don’t follow it with action? In this powerful episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores how to create loving affirmations that truly support the outcomes we desire, and how taking aligned, loving action is essential to manifesting our gifts and purpose. She…
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Personal Growth Requires Loving Actions
With practice, you can become a loving adult father to yourself, even if you never had one. In today’s episode, Dr. Margaret Paul dives into how the “loving adult father” shows up in our lives, why we need both the nurturing energy of an inner mother and the action-oriented guidance of an inner...
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Inner Child: What Makes You Come Alive?
What makes your soul and your inner child truly come alive? Many spend their lives seeking approval or safety, yet few ask the one question that opens the door to a meaningful life: What brings me joy to offer the planet? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores how childhood conditioning and...
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Emotional Responsibility: How Your Thoughts Affect Your Relationships
Are you aware of how deeply your thoughts shape your relationships? In this episode, Dr. Margaret Paul explores how our thoughts directly influence our actions, our relationships, and the decisions we make. She unpacks how more supportive, compassionate thoughts can help us feel grounded and...
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The Power of Kindness to Change Your Life
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...
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The Magic of Gratitude From the Loving Adult
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…
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How to Break Free From a Relationship, Work or Financial Situation That Keeps You Stuck
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...
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Emotional Responsibility: Loving Thoughts vs. Wounded Thoughts
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...
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Inner Child vs. Wounded Child — What’s Really Running Your Life
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...
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Understanding Guilt vs. Shame — Healthy vs. Toxic (and How to Heal)
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…
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Healing Shame After Being a Bully or “Mean Child”
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...
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How to Take Loving Care of Yourself Without Guilt
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...
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Healing Social Anxiety
Do you experience intense anxiety in social situations? Discover the root cause and how to heal it.
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Most Fear Cannot be Trusted
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.
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You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For
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.
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Are You Ready for Permanent Weight Loss?
Discover the underlying cause of the cycle of losing and gaining, and what you can do to permanently lose weight.
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Loving Yourself Is What Creates Self-Worth
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.
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Healing the Inner Child: Connecting with Your Deepest Self
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.
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The Breakdown of Partnership: Trying to Get Love Rather Than Share Love
Is true partnership with a beloved important to you? This episode will clarify what erodes partnership and what creates it.
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When Caring for Someone Hurts You: What’s Truly Loving?
Discover how to take loving care of yourself while caring for a friend, partner, or family member who is ill or emotionally dysregulated.
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Shame as Control Over Yourself and Others
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.
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Facing the Feelings That Fuel Addictions
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.
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Your Wounded Self is Not Compatible with Anyone
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.
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Violence and the Abandonment of the Self
Our society is more violent than ever. It’s time to understand where violence comes from and what we can each do about it.
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Healing Abandonment Wounds Within a Relationship
Abandonment wounds from childhood abuse, or from being left or ignored, or from being bullied, ridiculed or teased, can be healed within a relationship.
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Reclaiming the Power of Self-Trust
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.
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Your Emotions Are Messengers - Did You Learn to Listen?
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.
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The Power of Prayer
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.
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Parenting Without People-Pleasing or Power Struggles
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.
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The Three Pillars of Health and Longevity
Dr. Margaret Paul explains that true health and longevity depend on three pillars: eating an organic, ancestral diet, enjoying regular movement, and managing stress through practices like Inner Bonding, which fosters emotional self-care and loving action. By combining these, she remains healthy…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Inner Bonding Podcast with Dr. Margaret PaulDr. Margaret guides listeners through the transformative mind–body–spirit practice of Inner Bonding®, a powerful self-healing process designed to help you build a loving relationship with yourself, take responsibility for your emotional and physical well-being, and connect with your higher guidance.Through practical teaching, real-life application, and compassionate insight, Dr. Margaret explores how Inner Bonding can help heal anxiety, depression, anger, shame, addictions, and recurring relationship patterns. This podcast is an invitation to move beyond self-judgment and disconnection—and into greater clarity, emotional freedom, and inner peace.By learning to access your inner source of love, truth, and wisdom, you’ll discover how true healing begins from within—and how self-love becomes the foundation for lasting change.
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Margaret Paul PhD
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The Inner Bonding Podcast with Dr. Margaret PaulDr. Margaret guides listeners through the transformative mind–body–spirit practice of Inner Bonding®, a powerful self-healing process designed to help you build a loving relationship with yourself, take responsibility for your emotional and physical...
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