004: The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2014
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Over the past two weeks, our conversation has centered on the child and adolescent chairs, moving from the creativity and trust of the child to the judgment and doubt of the adolescent. Today, we take on our namesake, the adult chair.
The adult speaks in truth and fact. The adult is conscious, connected to the higher self. The adult is our keen observer, rational and patient. This week, we offer an exploration of the adult, and share insights into how the adult supports our growth from child and adolescent every day.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the adult chair living authentically with Michelle |
| 0:05.2 | Shelfont. I'm Pete Wright and here we are Michelle Shelfont, the |
| 0:11.8 | rubber meets the road right here. This is the |
| 0:14.8 | namesake of this whole podcast. We are talking about the adult chair today. |
| 0:19.8 | Hi Pete, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I am so ready for this. Great. Are you in your adult chair? |
| 0:28.6 | I have no idea. Well I have a standing desk. How does that work? Oh'm in my adult shoes. Yes you're in your |
| 0:37.3 | adult shoot. You know we have we've spent the last a couple of weeks talking introducing this concept of the chair work that you do. |
| 0:46.4 | We started talking about the child chair and the benefits of living authentically with your child, you know, understanding vulnerability and |
| 0:56.1 | creativity and trust and passion and then the, you know, what happens when you become an adolescent or the benefits or the the |
| 1:05.2 | challenges of the emotional adolescent dealing with you know judgment and |
| 1:09.6 | addiction and and the feelings as you try to to rationalize the world around you and become aware of your |
| 1:15.1 | own ego. |
| 1:16.1 | And today we introduce what is starting to sound like the referee. Yes. With the adult chair. Is that a fair assessment? In a way. |
| 1:27.1 | What does the adult chair allow us to do as we put all these concepts together. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, so just to go down the timeline, from about 0 to 7 on average is when we're in our child. |
| 1:42.0 | And then around the age of 7 seven the child part of who we |
| 1:44.8 | are becomes inner child and the adolescent part of who we are is born until you |
| 1:50.2 | know from us again it's average age of seven to maybe 18 is somewhere around there is when the |
| 1:55.8 | adolescent happens and drops in and then if we had parents or parenting it doesn't matter if you're in a foster home or grandparents |
| 2:05.0 | raised us or siblings, it doesn't matter. |
| 2:07.5 | But if the people that raised us were able to process their emotions, live authentically, have healthy boundaries, and love themselves. |
| 2:18.5 | If we had that growing up, then we very easily transition into this, what I call now, the adult chair, which is really |
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