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ARTArticle***Getting Your Point AcrossWhat happens in your relationships when you try to get your point across to someone who isn't open to your point of view? ________________________________________ One of the situations that often creates relationship conflict is when you become devoted to getting your point across. Most of us love to be heard and understood. It feels great when someone important to us really understands things from our point of view.ARTArticle***Healing a 'Fix Others' AddictionAre you addicted to fixing others? Do you believe this is loving rather than controlling? Many of us were raised to base our identity on helping or fixing others. Fixing others is often the addiction of choice for people who have a naturally deep level of empathy and who easily feel others’ pain. This was one of my major addictions for many years. Deeply feeling my parents' pain and the pain of others around me was unbearable to me as a child. I thought that if only I could make them happy then I wouldn't have to feel their pain. Leslie is struggling with this very issue:ARTArticle***Healing Attachment WoundsInner Bonding is a powerful process for healing attachment wounds. Did you have a secure, reliable loving bond with at least one parent or caregiver? Was one of your parents or caregivers consistently emotionally available and responsive to your needs? If not, then you likely have attachment wounds. Sadly, few people had parents or caregivers who were emotionally healthy enough to be loving parents with their children.ARTArticle***Healing From A Relationship With A NarcissistBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. April 25, 2016 ________________________________________ Healing from a relationship with a narcissist is a learned process. Learn it now! ________________________________________ Many of us have been there. You met the person of your dreams – charming, intelligent, romantic, attentive, incredible chemistry and great lover. You might have been told how wonderful you are, how this was the first time your love had ever felt this way and had this level of connection, and you felt truly seen for the first time.ARTArticle***Healing the Mother Wound________________________________________ Do you have a mother wound that plagues you in your life and your relationships? ________________________________________ Many of us have a deep and painful mother wound from not receiving the nurturing we needed. Without adequate healing, this wound can follow you around your whole life and affect all your relationships. Are you still trying to get the love from your mother that you did not receive as a child? This is the situation that Katie is in:ARTArticle***Healing Your Inner Cult________________________________________ Heal your inner cult with the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. _______________________________________ What do you picture when you think of the word 'cult?' For me, what comes to mind is being involved in a community where you have to follow certain rules and do things a certain way, and where you might be severely punished or even killed (as happened with the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown, or satanic cults ). You are often not allowed to leave a cult, and if you do manage to leave, there might be dire consequences.ARTArticle***How Are You and Your Partner Doing Together?How is your relationship with your partner? What are the positive and negative aspects of your relationship? What are the positive and negative aspects of your relationship?ARTArticle***How Can I Get My Partner To Change?Discover the things you might need to change in yourself in order to have a chance at creating change in your partner and in your relationship. ________________________________________ How much energy do you spend trying to get what you want from your partner? Think about it for a moment - how much of your thinking time is spent on what to say to your partner to get him or her to be the way you want?ARTArticle***How Do I Know If I Have Abandonment Issues?By Margaret Paul, Ph.D. April 18, 2016 ____________________________________________________________ Have you wondered if you have an abandonment issue? Discover the answer to this question in this article – and what to do about it. ____________________________________________________________ARTArticle***How Relationships Can Be Easy – 4 Keys to Loving Relationships_______________________________________________________ Creating a loving relationship doesn't have to be as hard as you might think! _______________________________________________________ARTArticle***How to Attract a Healthy Relationship________________________________________ Do you keep attracting narcissistic or emotionally unavailable partners? You CAN learn to attract a healthy partner! ________________________________________ Have you found yourself continually attracting the same kind of unhealthy person into your life, such as people who are narcissistic or emotionally unavailable? This is the situatio Connie finds herself in.ARTArticle***How To Be A Loving Advocate For Your Inner ChildBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. September 27, 2016 What does it look like to be a loving advocate for your inner child? Learn how now! What does loving self-care really mean? Our wounded self and our loving adult have totally different concepts of what self-care really means. The wounded self might say, "I'm taking loving care of myself when: *I reward myself with chocolate cake after a really hard day." *I withdraw and feel justifiably angry when someone makes unreasonable demands on me."r ARTArticle***How To ForgiveBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. June 06, 2016 Do you want to forgive yourself or someone else, but you just can't seem to get there? Learn how to forgive in this article. _____________________________________________________________________________ It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. ~Maya Angelou Forgiveness IS one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves, but how do we genuinely get there?ARTArticle***How To Reassure Your Inner ChildBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. August 22, 2016 Are you afraid that if you practice Inner Bonding, you will have to feel painful feelings that you have been avoiding your whole life with your various addictions? Most people who have done even a little bit of Inner Bonding know the power it has to heal false beliefs and move them into truth. They know that they can develop their loving adult and discover the loving actions on their own behalf. They know that they can learn to be a loving advocate for themselves, for their inner child.ARTArticle***How To Stay Joyful All The TimeBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. These three simple – but not always easy – choices can create such incredible joy! One of the things I love to do is walk every morning out in nature and do my Inner Bonding process. I've been walking almost every morning for at least the last 40 years, and doing Inner Bonding on my walk for over 32 years. It's on these walks that I receive the most information from my spiritual Guidance. Recently, my spiritual Guidance deepened my understanding regarding how to stay joyful all the time. She deepened my understanding of three major choices that sustain joy.ARTArticle***How To Trust AgainBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. August 29, 2016 Learning how to trust again is a process, not an event, and it take both inner and relationship work. I received the following question about how to trust again:ARTArticle***HUFFINGTON POST NEWEST ARTICLE BY LANEY ZUKERMAN EVERYDAY HEROESCheck out my newest article on THE HUFF POST Everyday Heroes and How to Make an Extraordinary Difference WE NEED MORE EVERYDAY HEROES AND YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITIES RIGHT NOW. LEARN THE SIMPLE YET POWERFUL WAYS YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD ONE PERSON AT A TIME. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/want-to-make-an-extraordinary-difference-three-powerful_us_597b52abe4b09982b73763d9 ARTArticle***Is My Need For Attention Reasonable or Needy?Have you ever wondered if your desire to share time with a partner is coming from need or neediness? Sometimes it's a challenge to know what are reasonable relationship needs and when we are being needy. Klarese is asking this important question:ARTArticle***Kind at the Beginning…Critical Later. Why?Margaret Paul, Ph.D. January 11, 2016 ________________________________________ Have you been mystified when someone who has appeared to be very kind and caring suddenly becomes blaming, critical, or just disappears? ________________________________________ How often have you had the experience of feeling someone's kindness, only to feel deeply criticized as the relationship progressed? This was Leslie's experience and she is struggling with whether or not it was her fault:ARTArticle***Learn To Love Yourself: Listen To Your Soul NOT Your MindBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. February 08, 2016 _____________________________________________________________ Learning to disce the difference between mind and soul communication is essential to learning to love yourself. Learn how to tell when information is truth from Spirit or made up from the mind. _____________________________________________________________r ARTArticle***Learning to Love Your Sacred BeingDo you know who you are in your essence? If you knew that your core Self, your essence, was a sacred being, an individualized expression of Spirit, would you treat yourself differently than you currently do?ARTArticle***Longing For ConnectionAre you longing for connection? Discover what you need to do to create loving connection with another. Deeply connecting with another is one of the great joys of life, and is something most of us long for. Deep connection takes away loneliness and gives us the experience of being deeply known. We feel safe and loved when our hearts connect. Research indicates that the happiest people in the world are those who live in communities where they feel connected with each other.ARTArticle***Loving YourselfAre you asking your higher self for the loving action and not receiving answers? Ernie was having trouble accessing his higher self. He wanted to know about the loving action toward himself, but he couldn't seem to receive any answers. Because his inner child often felt abandoned and unloved due to the lack of loving action, Ernie often felt disconnected and depressed.ARTArticle***Loving Yourself As An Introvert in GroupsBy Margaret Paul, PhDr November 28, 2016 Do you often feel out of place and like an alien in some groups? Discover how to love yourself in group situations. "She's very shy," my parents used to say to people when I was quiet. From their tone, I thought it wasn't a good thing to be shy. I thought being shy meant there was something wrong with me.ARTArticle***Loving Yourself Creates Loving Connection With OthersBy Margaret Paul, PhDr January 10, 2017 How often in your life have you felt that magical feeling of deeply connecting with another? Learn how loving yourself leads to having much more of this in your life. As humans, we are hard-wired to want to connect with each other. Until 10,000 years ago, all people lived in tribes where families stayed together through the generations, and tribes stayed together, deeply connected with each other and with the planet.ARTArticle***Loving Yourself Fiercely and RelentlesslyBy Margaret Paul, PhDr January 23, 2017 How fiercely and relentlessly devoted are you to wanting to love yourself and wanting to learn to treat yourself lovingly? Gerard sat opposite me at one of my Inner Bonding Intensives. "My body hurts and I feel irritated," he complained, in a way that felt like he was handing his hurting inner child to me to soothe and fix. "Gerard, do you want to know what you are doing and how you are treating yourself that is causing this pain?" "Yes, of course. I know he wants me to love him, but I don't know how."ARTArticle***Loving Yourself in the Face of Others' ExpectationsBy Margaret Paul, PhDr February 07, 2017 How often are you stressed and frazzled in trying to meet others' expectations? You can learn to love yourself instead! I was staying at a friend's house on one of my teaching trips. I walked into the kitchen early one morning to find my friend frantically trying to get everything done that she believed she needed to get done before going to work. I walked over to her and put my arm around her and said, "Breathe." She stopped and breathed and started to cry. "What's going on?" I gently asked her.ARTArticle***Loving Yourself When Being BlamedBy Margaret Paul, PhDr February 20, 2017 Discover how loving it is to yourself to understand the amazing difference between blame and responsibility. Growing up, most of us had numerous experiences of being blamed. I was frequently blamed for things that I was too young to understand, or for things that I didn't do 'right', or for things that, to me, didn't seem worthy of blame.ARTArticle***Loving Yourself When Feeling Engulfed and ControlledBy Margaret Paul, PhDr November 15, 2016 What do you do when someone is trying to control you? Do you give in, argue or resist? Discover how to love yourself instead of abandoning yourself. Loving yourselfMost of us have had the experience in our relationships of someone trying to control us. Perhaps they were doing it with anger and blame, or by complaining and guilting us, or by withdrawing their love, or even by being too 'nice.'ARTArticle***Loving Yourself When in ConflictBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. November 07, 2016 You have a much better chance at conflict resolution when you are loving yourself rather than trying to control the other person.

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