Welcome everybody to the adult chair of living authentically with Michelle

Shelfont. I'm Pete Wright and here we are episode three sitting here with Michelle

Michelle how are you?

Hi Pete I'm good thank you how are you?

Well I'm I'm very good I'm nervous.

Why are you nervous?

I'm nervous about this week's episode because you know last week we talked all about the child chair and you totally nailed me

You described me to a tee and now we're now we I think you're going to nail me again. I feel like you know introducing

it this where I'd love to start is talking about the transition sort of how we transition from the child chair.

And as you described the child chair last week, it's sort of this inner zero to seven year old that becomes kind of the vessel for true feelings

discovering trust and creativity and passion and vulnerability all these these

sort of wonderful and rich native emotions that then get all mucked up by the adolescent?

It can get mucked up.

So we have a lot of wounding that could happen in the child.

So just to step back there just for just a moment. So for example one of the things that

happened in the child is trust so I can't trust because let's take for example I'm

going to use myself for an example so I had really bad colic for the first nine months of my life.

So I'm wondering, just thinking back and I'm asking my mom about this, you know, how often,

because I cried 22 hours a day my mom for nine months okay for nine

months this is during the child part of my life the inner child part was

forming and trust is a biggie for me and now in my adult life but growing up

during or obviously during those nine months I said to my mom how many times

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