Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child

A breakthrough five-step process to transform how you relate to family, friends, and co-workers. Margaret Paul demonstrates that the key to a productive and joyful life lies in the ability to maintain a loving relationship between the inner adult or parent and the inner child. n nInner bonding is the process of connecting our adult thoughts with our instinctual, gut feelings--the feelings of the inner child--so that we can minimize painful conflict within ourselves. Free of inner conflict, we feel peaceful, open to joy, and open to giving and receiving love.n nMargaret Paul, coauthor of Healing Your Aloneness, explores how abandonment of the inner child leads to increasingly negative and destructive feelings of low self-worth, codepenclence, addiction, shame, powerlessness, and withdrawal from relationships. Her breakthrough inner bonding process teaches us to heal past wounds through reparenting and clearly demonstrates how we can learn to parent in the present. Real-life examples illustrate the dynamics of the healing process and show the benefits we can expect in every facet of our lives and in all our relationships.n nInner Bonding provides the tools we need to forge and maintain the inner unity that makes our family, sexual, work, and social relationships productive, honest, and joyful.n