490: From "Yes Girl" to Sovereign Woman with Shannon Yonge
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm joined by one of our incredible Adult Chair® Master Coaches, Shannon Yonge. Shannon shares her powerful story of how she went from living life for everyone else, constantly saying yes, ignoring her needs, and feeling disconnected from herself, to reconnecting with her intuition, setting boundaries, and stepping fully into her sovereignty.
This conversation is deeply personal and incredibly relatable. We talk about how tuning into the body can guide us back to our truth, how to break free from people-pleasing, and why learning to say no, without needing to explain, can be so life-changing. Shannon's journey is such a beautiful example of what becomes possible when we start living from our Adult Chair.
In this episode, you'll hear:
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Shannon's experience leaving an emotionally abusive marriage and reclaiming her voice
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How listening to her body helped her reconnect with her intuition
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The difference between authentic connection and false connection
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How Shannon stopped saying yes to everything and began honoring her needs
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What it really means to live in sovereignty and why this matters so much, especially for women
Resources from this Episode:
Shannon's website: Shannon Yonge Coaching
Follow Shannon on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok
Grab her free reparenting guide in the Resources section of her website
Check out her beautifully designed mantra card deck here!
The Adult Chair book is NOW AVAILABLE!
MORE MICHELLE CHALFANT
Website: https://www.michellechalfant.com
Membership: The Adult Chair Collective
https://www.michellechalfant.com/collective
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The Adult Chair® Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theadultchair
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, and Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope everyone is having a safe and healthy and happy |
| 0:12.0 | Christmas and full holiday season. Today on the show, we have one of our very own. It is one of our master coaches, Shannon Young. |
| 0:22.5 | This is a deeply honest and inspiring conversation about what it means and what it looks like |
| 0:29.3 | and how to come home to yourself. Shannon shares for years how she lived disconnected from her own |
| 0:37.3 | needs, intuition, her inner |
| 0:39.0 | truth, while constantly tending to everyone else's, like so many of us, she was a chronic |
| 0:44.7 | yes girl, people pleaser, and peacekeeper, unaware that she was abandoning herself in the |
| 0:51.0 | process. She opens up about emotional abuse that she experienced in her marriage and the moment her |
| 0:57.7 | intuition fully broke through. She also talks about how she reclaimed her self-worth and sovereignty |
| 1:04.8 | and how it led her to rebuild her entire life from the inside out. Shannon also talks about the surprising ways our |
| 1:12.9 | bodies speak to us, how intuition actually works and gentle steps anyone can take to reconnect |
| 1:19.3 | with themselves. This is a special, special show just for you on this very special holiday. |
| 1:26.9 | Enjoy everyone. |
| 1:27.7 | Here we go with Shannon Yonge. |
| 1:30.4 | Welcome to the Michelle Shelfod show. |
| 1:33.6 | Shannon. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm so glad to be here. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.5 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.7 | One of our incredible master coaches. |
| 1:43.7 | You know, as you sharing with you you it's so fun to have some coaches |
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