The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

Shannon Thomas sits down in the adult chair with me today to talk about narcissism, gaslighting, and other forms of abuse and emotional trauma that can plague our relationships. This is a wide-ranging interview thanks to YOU! So many of the questions Shannon takes on this week come from your responses in our Facebook private group — far more than we could cover in one sitting! So, consider this a...

Go ahead and say it out loud right now: "It's all about me!" My clients have a lot of trouble saying it, as if it gets stuck in their throats. But being able to say that it's all about you isn't selfish, it's ownership! It's your charge that you are taking responsibility for your own emotions, feelings, desires. You're going to look after yourself first, and thus open the door to being able to be...

Karen Gelstein is another of my favorite people. She's a therapist based out of New York City and when you hear what she has to say on love addiction, love avoidance, narcissism in the show this week you're definitely going to want to learn more about her work. We're of the same mind, and I think you'll find in this show that her perspectives absolutely cement the critical importance of inner chil...

This week on the show I'm thrilled to welcome one of my precious clients and author of one of my very favorite quotes on healing, "soothing cannot be outsourced." Susan introduces us to her journey of discovery in the Adult Chair which encompasses so many of the elements of struggle that so many face: loss of family, grief, reconciliation, all milestones on a path to discovery and love of self. Th...

What an amazing milestone! Never in a million years would I have imagined the love and grace I've discovered in the audience of this podcast. Thank you so much for everything you've done to make the journey to episode 100 so special. And now, let's get started on our journey to episode 200 with a conversation on self-love! I have ten tools you can use to drive your own journey to self-love, each p...

One of the most cherished, empowering, and attractive experiences in a relationship comes when both partners are strong in the belief of their own worthiness in the world. This meditation serves as a reminder of that strength and beauty: You Are Worthy. Let us journey.

Carrying around feelings of blame, shame, anger, sadness, or apathy from un-forgiveness can be incredibly heavy on us. This forgiveness meditation will help you to gain a new perspective with the person or event that has made you feel stuck and unable to move on. During this meditation, we cut cords, relieving us of the heavy burden we have been carrying and let go of the energy of the pain. In th...

Many of us grow up learning to please others, to give up our personal space to ensure others are ok before ourselves. We violate our personal space and drop our boundaries in order to not offend others, maybe we walk on eggshells, attempting to keep the peace, forgetting we are betraying ourselves in the process. This meditation is to teach others how we want to be treated. It's a meditation that...

Throughout our lives we experience relationship challenges, changes or even relationships that end. This is life. Often times we have a difficult time moving on or letting go when a relationship is in flux or ending. This meditation helps us to release the cords that bind us to the old dysfunctional ways and patterns in a relationship. This meditation helps you to cut and release the old dysfuncti...

Reset your mind and body to the new frequency of you: a person of vision, accomplishment, success, and light.  Let us journey. This meditation helps to reprogram the mind with empowered thoughts that enable you to set goals and achieve success in life. We often times feel stuck or may have negative self-talk around goal setting and success. Many of us lack the confidence or beliefs within ourselve...

This meditation will reprogram the thoughts and beliefs we hold of ourselves that constrain us, those that prevent us from being who we are truly meant to be in the world.  Let us journey.

This is a meditation to release anxiety, stress and worry. Find a comfortable position, close your eyes, and allow yourself to relax and become fully present.  Let us begin.

A healing inner child meditation for codependency, negative programming, and lack of self-love. Let us journey.

We spend a lot of time searching for who we are on the outside of us when the direction we need to go instead is on the inside.  Let us travel.

This meditation is excellent for anyone feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stressed. In this meditation, we ground and cleanse to regain peace back in the present moment.

To live as an empath means taking on the emotional and energetic burdens of the world around us. In this month's mediation, I offer you a cleansing and grounding journey, a meditation to center you and help you find peace in noise. It is also a meditation for cleansing chakras, and we'll walk through each in meditation today.  

This 5-minute meditation promotes relaxation, healing, and self- love. It's a wonderful meditation for emotional healing and/or physical healing or for anyone seeking greater peace in their lives. 

No time for meditation? No more excuses! This one minute meditation promotes relaxation, brings you back to balance and create a sense of peace. It's a wonderful way to start your day and do during the day whenever you need to re-center and de-stress. 

This 10-minute guided meditation will take you through a seven-step process to increase your manifestation success. It is an easy to follow creation process that includes the key steps in creation, using energy centers of the body to bring the creation down through you and into your reality.   Many other manifestation strategies don't work well, as they are missing key elements to bring forth your...

This 10-minute meditation will help you relieve stress and anxiety all year round. With a daily practice, you'll begin to find great inner strength from meditation — I hope you'll use this to begin to discover the emotional freedom that is possible!

Do you feel stuck? Do you continue to fall into the same dysfunctional patterns? This guided meditation helps to clear those patterns and make way for new empowering experiences. 

We use this meditation to find and access our Inner Child. This is the part of us that is the container for our true feelings, true needs and innocence. 

This is a guided heart opening meditation. It helps with opening our hearts to love from others and in loving ourselves.

Clears away old stories and limiting beliefs that are keeping us stuck and are in the way of living our most authentic lives.