001: Introducing The Adult Chair — Meeting Michelle
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2014
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Adult Chair with Michelle Chalfant.
Michelle Chalfant has been a seeker her whole life. Through her own journey of discovery and her decades of work as a therapist, she has developed an approach to understanding the struggles we all experience as we move through the world each day. In The Adult Chair, we'll be using Michelle's framework as a foundation for better understanding our relationship with ourselves. Along the way, we'll host an ongoing conversation around stress, anxiety, physical health, and how our understanding of ourselves impacts the most important relationships in our lives.
This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle shares a bit of her own story with Pete Wright, the story that lead to this podcast. She introduces the chair model — originally created by Susan Austin Crumpton, one of Michelle's most inspirational teachers — and how this model inspires her own work to this day. She provides an overview to her guided approach to living authentically that she uses with clients each day.
For more information on Susan Austin-Crumpton, visit The Estuary.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the adult chair living authentically with Michelle |
| 0:09.0 | Shelfond. I am Pete Wright and I am thrilled to be here with Michelle Shelf on herself. |
| 0:13.4 | Michelle how are you today? |
| 0:14.8 | I'm doing great Pete thank you. |
| 0:16.8 | I am so excited for this show. |
| 0:20.1 | Have I told you that yet? |
| 0:21.8 | No I haven't already say that at all. |
| 0:24.0 | I am thrilled. |
| 0:25.0 | This has been a long time coming. |
| 0:27.0 | We have been working together for a while and this, I think we've come to the conclusion that this is the the message of this show is a fantastic message for more people to hear |
| 0:38.5 | We've called the show the adult chair can you talk a little bit about what that means, where that |
| 0:44.9 | metaphor came from for you and how it has become such a driving force in your |
| 0:51.1 | work today? Absolutely. |
| 0:54.0 | I have had, gosh, over the course of 25 years, so many different teachers come in and out of my life |
| 0:59.5 | and I certainly have learned some amazing concepts and tools and techniques. |
| 1:03.4 | After spending most of my life looking for ways to love myself, |
| 1:08.3 | this would be the way that we learn how to love ourselves. |
| 1:11.5 | And it's by living in our authentic adults which I now |
| 1:14.4 | call the adult chair and I call it a chair because it started or excuse me it started out as a chair |
| 1:20.7 | and it still is very much in my office. I actually have three chairs and the goal is to live in our adult chair and each chair designates a different part of our being and the adult chair is that authentic part of who we are. |
| 1:37.0 | You actually have chairs, you move people through the chairs. |
| 1:41.0 | I do. |
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