137 - Healing The Inner Child Through Parts Work with Michelle Chalfant
Adult Child
Andrea Ashley
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Michelle Chalfant is a therapist and coach who created a model called the “adult chair” to help adults recognize immature aspects of their psyche and live more emotionally healthy lives. We’re talking about what enmeshment trauma, using parts work to heal unresolved childhood wounds. Her extraordinary work has helped people all over the world get unstuck, improve their relationships, and develop healthy self-love.
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| 0:00.0 | People do not need to be fixed., what you're holding on to, |
| 0:15.0 | what you're holding on to, |
| 0:18.0 | I just let it all go. |
| 0:20.0 | What's making you slow now? Let it all go. Welcome back to an old child where we take a deep dive |
| 0:26.5 | into the impact of growing up |
| 0:30.9 | in a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:32.6 | Ahoy, my dear shit shows. |
| 0:35.0 | What up for any new listeners? |
| 0:37.3 | My name is Andrea. |
| 0:38.6 | I am a total shit show and I am the captain of this shit show ship and this is where we talk about what the |
| 0:46.2 | hell to do when you realize that your childhood screwed you up way more than you thought |
| 0:50.4 | it did. So today we're in for a goody. Today we are joined by |
| 0:55.3 | Michelle Font. She is an author, she is a therapist, she is a coach, she is the host of the podcast the adult chair which I'm sure many of y'all |
| 1:07.1 | Listen to it's she's had for many many years. It's an amazing podcast and she has dedicated many many years of her life and profession to helping shit shows like us. |
| 1:20.0 | So we're talking about her childhood, we're talking about a meshment, we're talking about |
| 1:27.2 | using plant medicine to treat complex trauma, and we're also talking about parts work. So you're actually going to hear, she did a little |
| 1:37.2 | parts work exercise with me in my interview with her. So I included that. I did, you know, cut there, it was longer than |
| 1:46.2 | what you're going to hear. There were a lot more, you know, pauses and breaks, which I got |
| 1:51.3 | rid of because I mean, I figured you weren't really trying to listen to a |
| 1:55.1 | podcast where it's just silent for long periods of time so I edit that out for you all. |
| 2:03.0 | It's a great interview. |
| 2:04.0 | So let's just get the damn show on the road. |
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