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The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

386: How To Clear Generational Trauma with Emily Blefeld

The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

Michelle Chalfant

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For millennia, cultures around the globe have known that there's more to us than meets the eye and that our family trees really are a map to ourselves — an energetic portrait of our lives.

 

Today, epigenetics has proven that what our ancestors experienced can imprint on our genes and impact our lives today in unexpected ways. 

 

That depression, anxiety, stress or limiting belief? It might be from long ago.

 

And the field of psychology is finally catching up with this. 

 

A new methodology I just discovered (and got the chance to try as a client) is called Family Constellation work. 

 

In this method, we find unconscious experiences and beliefs that we're carrying from our ancestors — including those who we never knew — and work to transform them through awareness and compassion.

 

On the podcast this week, I talked with my Family Constellation practitioner, Emily Blefeld, about what Family Constellation work is, how our family history affects our lives today and how we can clear blocks and dismantle generational cycles by being bold and brave enough to look at what happened before we were even here.

 

It's not that different from what we do with parts work in The Adult Chair®, except instead of working with parts of ourselves we're working with parts of our family tree! It's SO freaking cool!

 

Listen to discover:

  • How our family history impacts our present reality

  • The way our ancestors' patterns create patterns for us today

  • What Family Constellation work is and how it works

  • How to heal trauma and clear blocks through Family Constellation work

  • Using Family Constellation work for business, non-biological relatives and more

The cool thing about epigenetics is that it describes a tendency, not a fate. These experiences don't change our DNA; they change the way our genes express themselves.

 

That means we get a choice in how these generational traumas will manifest in our lives.

 

We don't have to agree with the beliefs and experiences of our ancestors. We can look them in the face and decide they stop with us. 

 

And there's no transformation more powerful than that – for ourselves and generations to come.

 

"We are victim to our lineage." - Michelle Chalfant 

 

"What's unconscious will continue to permeate our lives until it's made conscious." - Emily Blefeld

 

"We actually carry the victims and the perpetrators in our inherited lineage." - Emily Blefeld

 

"[Family Constellation work] is predominantly a therapy that looks at the system that we walk around with." - Emily Blefeld

 

"Constellation work is less interested in what is causing the symptom, and they're more interested in who is the symptom." - Emily Blefeld

 

"I like to think of it as a family soul on some level." - Emily Blefeld

 

"There's so much more to us than meets the eye." - Michelle Chalfant

 

"There are so many different ways to clear our blocks. There's so many different ways to relieve anxiety, depression, feeling not good enough, our inner fraud, all of those things." - Michelle Chalfant

 

"You'll feel the generations behind heal and the generations following." - Emily Blefeld

 

"What an awesome thing to hear as a parent, your child thanking you for doing your work. Because it can stop with you." - Emily Blefeld

 

LINKS & RESOURCES

 

Emily Blefeld Website

https://seeingwithyourheart.com/ 

 

FREE MASTERCLASS: How To Heal Your Relationship To Get the Love You Want

https://theadultchair.com/healing  

 

MORE ADULT CHAIR

 

The Adult Chair® Website

https://theadultchair.com   

 

The Adult Chair® Events 

https://theadultchair.com/events/ 

 

The Adult Chair® Coaching Certification - Join the 2024 Waitlist! 

https://theadultchair.com/certification 

 

STAY CONNECTED

 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themichellechalfant 

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMichelleChalfant/ 

 

The Adult Chair® Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theadultchair/ 

 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Michellechalfant



Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you in a relationship and you're craving more love or more affection from your partner?

0:08.4

Maybe you just want a deeper connection with them.

0:12.4

Are you wondering what you can do to just make things better in your relationship?

0:19.4

If these things sound like you, I want to invite you to my all-new, free masterclass that

0:26.1

I'm teaching next week on how to heal your relationship and get the love you want, the

0:31.3

foreign gradients of healthy relationships.

0:34.7

In this masterclass, you will gain clarity and understanding about your relationship

0:41.4

and also tools to turn your relationship around.

0:47.0

So head on over to theadultchare.com for a slash healing to sign up for this free webinar.

0:54.2

It's theadultchare.com for a slash healing.

1:02.9

Hi, I'm Michelle Shelfand, psychotherapist, holistic life coach, and human just like you,

1:08.8

learning to navigate life challenges.

1:11.2

With over 25 years experience, I teach people how to get healthy using the adult chair model.

1:17.0

The adult chair model is where simple psychology meets grounded spirituality and it teaches

1:22.3

us how to become healthy adults.

1:25.6

From anxiety and depression to codependency and relationship issues, you can use the adult

1:30.1

chair for just about anything.

1:33.2

Each week, I share practical tips, tools and advice from myself and a wide range of experts

1:39.4

on how to get unstuck, how to live authentically, and how to truly love yourself, all while

1:45.1

sitting in your adult chair.

1:48.1

Welcome to the Adult Chair Podcast.

1:51.5

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Adult Chair Podcast.

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