Transform Your LIfe: Break Free From The Limiting Patterns That Are Keeping You Stuck. With Michelle Chalfant.

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Health & Fitness

4.2 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Michelle Chalfant, Author of the book The Adult Chair, Get Unstuck, Claim Your Power and Transform Your Life.

She’s also a therapist and created the Adult Chair Model, where she combines psychology and grounded spirituality to inspire personal transformation.

In this discussion, we explore the metaphor of life stages represented by chairs. Michelle shares her unique perspective on how the child, adolescent, and adult chairs symbolize our developmental journey. She delves into the significance of each stage, the unconscious beliefs formed in childhood and the impact of our childhood development on shaping our adult behaviors. The child chair, she says, lays the foundation or our initial road map; next comes the adolescent chair — the phase where our ego develops survival strategies based on our childhood; and then the adult chair, which ideally represents the stage of a healthy adult, generally starting around age twenty-five when the prefrontal cortex is developed. Living in the adult chair is marked by raised consciousness, awareness of self and others, living in the present moment, feeling emotions, setting boundaries, sharing needs, and taking responsibility for one's actions, choices, and motivations. It's a fascinating discussion!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Untangle. I'm Patricia Carpice.
0:07.1	Today's guest is Michelle Chalbant, author of the book The Adult Chair.
0:11.4	Get Unstuck, claim your power, and transform your life.
0:15.1	She is a therapist and created the adult chair model where she combined psychology and spirituality to inspire our
0:23.3	personal transformation. In our discussion, we explore the metaphor of life stages represented by
0:30.4	chairs. Michelle shares her unique perspective on how the child, adolescent, and adult chairs
0:36.5	symbolize our developmental journey.
0:39.5	She delves into the significance of each stage, the unconscious beliefs formed in childhood,
0:45.8	and the impact of our childhood development on shaping our adult behaviors.
0:50.8	The child chair, she says, lays the foundation of our initial roadmap. Next comes the adolescent
0:57.2	chair, the phase where our ego develops survival strategies based on our childhood, and then the
1:03.8	adult chair, which ideally represents the stage of a healthy adult, generally starting around
1:09.1	age 25 when the prefrontal cortex is developed.
1:12.9	Living in the adult chair, she says, is marked by raised consciousness, awareness of self and
1:18.4	others, living in the present moment, feeling emotions, setting boundaries, sharing needs,
1:23.9	and taking responsibility for one's actions, choices, and motivations.
1:29.7	It is fascinating stuff.
1:32.4	As always, we're Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps to
1:36.6	transform your brain.
1:38.2	Use promo code Untangle15 at choosemuse.com for your discount.
1:42.7	Now, here's Michelle.
1:54.8	Michelle, welcome to Untangle. I'm really happy to have you here this morning. Thank you, Patricia. It's so nice to be here. I appreciate it. Your book is so interesting. Of course,
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