ABOUT THE ADULT CHAIR
Michelle Chalfant’s The Adult Chair® podcast has become a worldwide movement. I discovered the podcast in December 2017 along with “my tribe” in The Adult Chair Facebook Group. I had consumed 100+ self-help audiobooks and countless podcasts by then. My quest was to become the best father that I could be for my daughter, who sadly was living with an abusive mother. I am so grateful to report that The Adult Chair tools worked! Now my goal is to become the best “me” that I can be and share what I’ve learned with others.
If you take away nothing else from my website, please listen to the (free) Adult Chair podcasts. Your life will change if you do this on a weekly basis, I promise. But there is so much more! Michelle’s guided meditations come in a close-second to the podcasts. I’ve attended many Adult Chair Workshops and joined TAC Tribe Membership Group. I’ve joined the 30-day Journaling Challenges and hosted local TAC Circle events.
And now, I’m honored to have completed The Adult Chair® Coaching Certification Program. As a coach, I’m here to walk with you as you become the healthiest version of yourself, using the principles of The Adult Chair. Let me show you how the model and hands-on tools can work for you!
Michelle Chalfant has poured her formidable talents and soul into making The Adult Chair Coaching Program the best coaching program in the world. You are the beneficiary, and I can confirm that the model delivers as promised. It’s simple, life-changing and even fun!
The Adult Chair® is a manual for your life. It’s a tool that helps you feel empowered, confident and equipped with a clear roadmap to your healthiest, most authentic self. Through The Adult Chair®, you will understand how your life experiences have shaped you, give a voice to the different parts of who you are, gain greater self-awareness and respond to life in a healthy way.
The Adult Chair Model
Your inner child forms between ages zero and seven, and it is the foundation of your true feelings and needs. The inner child is deeply vulnerable, which makes it the source of deep, connected relationships. It is also where early wounding can occur, which shapes our view of the world as we grow up. When seated in the Child Chair, we find creativity, passion, spontaneity, trust and intimacy.
The Child Chair
In adolescence, you begin to develop your own identity and realize that you are separate and unique from the world around you. As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect yourself, whether the daggers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we become perfectionist, judgmental and controlling, and we develop a mask to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting. Most of us live from this place until we awake and decide we are ready to change.
The Adolescent Chair
The Adult Chair represents your highest self: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truth over stories and assumptions and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion. While seated in the Adult Chair, we can deeply connect with our inner child’s needs and feelings and objectively observe our adolescent’s behaviors. It is here, and only here, that we can become aware of—and overcome—the emotional triggers and negative patterns that hold us back.