002: The Child Chair
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As humans, we've worked for years to understand our inner child and the role the child plays in our adult psyche. It can be an enormous and elusive challenge, facing our child as we struggle with what challenges us as adults. Why is understanding the role of the child important to our overall emotional balance and health? This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle introduces us to the child chair and brings into focus the path we can take to discover our relationship with our own inner child as we continue our series on the three chairs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the adult chair. I'm Pete Wright. I'm here with Michelle Schalfont. |
| 0:11.0 | Michelle, how are you? |
| 0:12.0 | Hi Pete, I'm doing great, thank you. |
| 0:14.0 | Happy, uh, slightly post Thanksgiving. |
| 0:16.0 | Yes, you too, you too? |
| 0:18.0 | You too? |
| 0:19.0 | You had a wonderfully memorable Thanksgiving holiday I'm sure. |
| 0:23.0 | I certainly did I was with all my families it was wonderful. |
| 0:26.0 | I hope you did I did you know I well I was I was sick as a dog I was really |
| 0:31.0 | horrible and but in my family luckily we hadn't you know I did not have any |
| 0:35.9 | travel requirements any there was nobody we came to visit it was just me and my wife and |
| 0:41.1 | my kids and they took incredible care of me as I was convalescing |
| 0:45.7 | on our couch all Thanksgiving week it was so they were so good to me deeply grateful that's |
| 0:51.0 | wonderful yes but we are back to continue our conversation about |
| 0:56.3 | the chairs. We started this conversation last week introducing the show and |
| 1:00.8 | and hopefully getting folks acquainted with what we're doing. |
| 1:04.0 | And so this week we're going to be talking a little bit more about the chairs themselves |
| 1:09.1 | as we introduce the child chair. |
| 1:11.9 | This inner child stuff, it's been around for a long time. |
| 1:15.0 | Talk a little bit about sort of your take on it and how you got to the point |
| 1:21.6 | where you are right now in terms of the model that you use and |
| 1:24.8 | the and bringing maturity to your practice. Yes you're absolutely right it has been |
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