Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child
<p>Inner 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.</p><p>Margaret Paul, coauthor of <em>Healing Your Aloneness,</em> 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.</p><p><em>Inner Bonding</em> 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.</p>