The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

After getting so many comments from the Healthy Relationships podcast #146 a couple weeks ago, I felt like I needed to do a follow up show and answer some of the questions and comments that came in. So today's show is a continuation of ideas and tools to help you to cultivate healthy relationships in your life.    https://theadultchair.com/workshop     https://theadultchair.com/membership     Heal...

What if I told you that you can change your brain and become happier? How about going from a pessimist to an optimist? Well you can and it doesn't take long! On today's show, Dr. Rick Hanson shares with us how to "Hardwire Happiness" into our brains and teaches us with some very simple steps how to sustain that happiness. This was an incredible and powerful conversation with one of the worlds fore...

Today I share with you how we create Healthy Relationships from The Adult Chair. Unfortunately, so many of us aren't taught how to have healthy relationships. In fact, most of us enter into relationships with a lot of baggage which can activate our triggers, and leave us feeling helpless and not sure what to do to help or improve our relationship.  In today's show I offer tools and tips on how we...

Happy Valentines Day!    Today's show is all about love and finding "the one" and/or improving your current relationship.  So whether you are in a relationship or not, you will benefit from this show! Katherine Woodward Thomas, author of  Calling in the One  and  Conscious Uncoupling  shares with us today some beautiful ideas on how we get ourselves healthy to then create the relationship we have...

Dr. Debi Silber from the PBT institute (Post Betrayal Institute) and I had a great conversation on the transformation of betrayal. She has done studies on betrayal and has a proven method for transformation. We discussed how betrayal can affect us physically and emotionally and we may not even know it! Debi shared with us the stages of transformation and how you too can heal and repair the damage...

Wow, wow, wow what a conversation I had with Dr. Keesha Ewers! If you or someone you know struggle with an autoimmune disease or any illness, this is a show you will not want to miss. Dr. Keesha shared how she reversed her own autoimmune disease naturally and how any disease can be reversed. We touched on the microbiome and how it relates to health, the root of autoimmune and other diseases and ho...

Shann Vander Leek from the Anxiety Slayer podcast joins me today for a wonderful conversation about anxiety. Shann offers us some fabulous tools and ideas on how to "slay" anxiety and live with greater peace and tranquility in your life. It was a great conversation on all things anxiety.    Anxiety Slayer Podcast: www. Anxietyslayer.com   TakeCareOf.com  Enter promo code Adult for 25% off your fir...

What if you could change your life doing just one thing? On today's show, Jay Papasan teaches us how to do just that. It sounds crazy but picking one thing and doing just that one thing until it becomes a habit is how we create change. This is a fabulous interview and Jay has come up with a simple yet brilliant idea on how to change lives. Resources: Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Tr...

In our 2019 kick off show I have special guest Terri Cole on and we explore the topic of love and boundaries. It was an awesome show and she gave us some incredible ideas about love, self love and setting boundaries. Definitely a show you won't want to miss!   Resources:      Terricole.com/TAC   Promo code: Real love live   10 day more love meditation experience Terricole.com @terricole Instagram...

As we think about how we can show up differently and make positive changes in our lives for 2019, we must also think about self worth. In today's show, I offer you a meditation to do just that, cultivate self worth. Without a feeling of worthiness it's difficult to make our lives happen. Enjoy the meditation! Download the meditation:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/theadultchair/mc_meditation23.mp3

We look and look for ways to love ourselves but nothing seems to create lasting change. In today's show we look a little deeper at The Adult Chair model, and how it helps us to love ourselves. I also share a few other tools that we can use to take us on an inward transformational journey that results in self-love. Self Love Meditation to download

Ahh the holidays. Such a busy time of year and boy can they throw us in our Adolescent Chair. In today's show, I chat with you a bit about how the holidays can throw us into "story and assumption" which creates drama in our lives. How do we end drama? You guessed it...The Adult Chair! Enjoy the show and Happy Holidays all!

Giovanna was struggling with anxiety and depression and stumbled upon The Adult Chair podcast. Giovanna shares with us how her life changed in 6 short weeks by listening to the show and applying a few simple tools that she gained. She has reduced her anxiety, improved her relationship with her husband and kids and learned how to love herself.    Book: The Adult Chair: A Guide to Loving Yourself   ...

Feeling drained or fatigued?  Maybe you pick up on other people's emotions and can feel what they are feeling? This "phenomena" is not random, these are qualities of an empath. When we understand the qualities of being an empath, we can get healthy and live in the world with greater peace and better health. In today's show, Sarah Weiss shares incredible information about being an empath as well as...

In life, we sometimes hurt or damage relationships. The one's that we often regret the most are the one's that are with our kids or other loved ones. The question is, is it possible to repair these relationships and if so how? In today's show, I discuss with you how to live from your Adult Chair and mend broken relationships with people that we deeply care about.    Audible book:  https://audiblet...

I have great news for you. Yes we can end our triggers! In this show I share with you what a trigger is and what to do with them to end being triggered. Hallelujah! I even go into one of my triggers and how I walked my way out of it and transformed it. I share with you lots of examples that will help you too to be able to transform and end triggers for good. Audible book: Debbie Ford The light sid...

Trauma is such a heavy word and when we think about overcoming it, many of us feel defeated or that it could take a lifetime. In today's show we learn otherwise. Courtney Armstrong joins me in a discussion of trauma and offers tools that we can begin using today that can change our trauma, heal and transform it for good. This is not a show to be missed! Show notes: Courtneyarmstrong.net theadultch...

Many people think acceptance is weak or it's something we do when we are defeated. It's actually the opposite. There is great power in acceptance. It's a choice we make from a clear intentional place within. When we do this our drama or anger can be done and gone. In today's show I speak with you about accepting things we are not happy about, things we cannot change and how our lives can transform...

After four years of this podcast, I felt like it was time for a refresher of the three chairs. In this show, I discuss where the Adult Chair model came from and a review of the three chairs. For long time listeners, this will reinforce your knowledge of the Adult Chair. For new listeners this will help you to build a foundation for this model. Either way, it's filled with great information about t...

Abandonment can leave an incredible wound inside of us. We do our best to bury it and not feel that pain but it leaves its mark on us. We move through life unconsciously guarded and ready for abandonment to happen again. We want to be free of this wound but don't know how. In today's show I go over the two types of abandonment and offer steps to heal this wound. Journaling Challenge: theadultchair...

There is huge power in owning our reality, yet most of us don't know how. We hide behind masks to cover our true selves up and show up in the world how we think others want us to be. This can be exhausting and so wearing on us. In this show, I speak about the power in owning your reality and the benefits of doing so. On the show I mentioned: 1. Podcast #103 It's all About You 2. The 30 day Journal...

We feel responsible for fixing and taking care of others. When we aren't "helping", we may feel anxious or useless. These could be symptoms of codependency. In today's show, I review what happens in childhood that sets us up for codependency, what it looks like in adulthood, and how you can heal and transform your life. Additional Show notes: Journaling Challenge: Go to www.theadultchair.com/journ...

When we experience a trauma, there is a part of us that can get stuck in time, yet we continue to physically grow. Part of the work of the Adult Chair is finding these parts and integrating them into the self in order to help us to feel whole and healthy. My client Sarah graciously agreed to share her session today which demonstrates the integration of her 10 year old part. It was a beautiful sess...

Betrayal is the worst kind of pain. It blindsides us, it can shock us and leave us in total disbelief. We wonder how we can move through such pain and feel ok again. In this show, Michelle shares her own experiences with betrayal and offers an 8 step process that walks us out of our pain and helps us to find trust again. Photo credit: @aleksdahlberg Resources mentioned: Living and Loving After Bet...