Untangle Transform Your LIfe: Break Free From The Limiting Patterns That Are Keeping You Stuck. With Michelle Chalfant.
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Aug 26, 2025 
Michelle Chalfant, author of 'The Adult Chair' and creator of the Adult Chair Model, explores the journey of personal transformation through the metaphor of life stages represented by chairs. She discusses how childhood experiences shape adult behaviors and the importance of self-awareness in living a healthy adult life. Topics include confronting emotional stuckness from past trauma, the significance of understanding one’s inner child, and cultivating emotional independence through effective processing of feelings. It's an enlightening conversation on breaking free from limiting patterns!
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Childhood Roadmap Shapes Adult Life
- By age six we build an unconscious roadmap that guides most adult decisions and relationships.
- These early beliefs often explain adult triggers and repeated life patterns.
Adolescent Ego Builds The False Self
- The adolescent chair constructs an ego-driven false self based on survival and fitting in.
- That false self often continues to run adult behavior until the prefrontal cortex matures.
Dissociation Learned In Childhood
- Michelle describes dissociating as a child to survive an unsafe family environment.
- She later noticed similar automatic reactions in her marriage and learned to change them.
