The Michelle Chalfant Show — Life from the Adult Chair
Michelle Chalfant
Welcome to The Michelle Chalfant Show, a transformational podcast where healing meets awakening, and self-discovery leads to profound transformation.
Michelle Chalfant is a transformational guide, here to help you unlock the path to your true self. In this groundbreaking podcast, she redefines health and wellness—mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual—through powerful conversations and insights.
Michelle's passion is awakening souls. With her unique blend of wisdom and practical tools, she empowers listeners to align with their higher purpose, live authentically, and thrive in a state of flow. Whether you're seeking deeper meaning, greater joy, or healing, this podcast is your guide.
Featuring thought leaders, spiritual teachers, healers, and changemakers, each episode delivers actionable steps and inspiring stories to help you awaken to your soul's purpose and live a life of passion, connection, and fulfillment.
This is more than a podcast—it's a journey into living fully aligned with your soul, guided by the wisdom of The Adult Chair, the ultimate seat of peace, presence, and authenticity.
If you're ready to awaken to your potential, step into your power, and live the extraordinary life you were meant for, this is the show for you.
Welcome to The Michelle Chalfant Show. Your journey to transformation starts here.
Michelle Chalfant is a transformational guide, here to help you unlock the path to your true self. In this groundbreaking podcast, she redefines health and wellness—mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual—through powerful conversations and insights.
Michelle's passion is awakening souls. With her unique blend of wisdom and practical tools, she empowers listeners to align with their higher purpose, live authentically, and thrive in a state of flow. Whether you're seeking deeper meaning, greater joy, or healing, this podcast is your guide.
Featuring thought leaders, spiritual teachers, healers, and changemakers, each episode delivers actionable steps and inspiring stories to help you awaken to your soul's purpose and live a life of passion, connection, and fulfillment.
This is more than a podcast—it's a journey into living fully aligned with your soul, guided by the wisdom of The Adult Chair, the ultimate seat of peace, presence, and authenticity.
If you're ready to awaken to your potential, step into your power, and live the extraordinary life you were meant for, this is the show for you.
Welcome to The Michelle Chalfant Show. Your journey to transformation starts here.
Episodes
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Feb 24, 2015 • 24min
010: Anxiety & Fear — In Practice with "Lola"
Anxiety is a demon. It is the state in which we live uncomfortably between a past we will never have again, and a future fraught with uncertainty. But growing a stronger relationship with our inner-adolescent can pay dividends far beyond casual nerves. This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle Chalfant and Pete Wright discuss anxiety and fear, demonstrated through the courage of "Lola" — a woman learning to combat the anxiety in her own life, willing to work with Michelle while being recorded to share here. Thanks to Lola, and to all who listen!
Feb 17, 2015 • 30min
009: Addressing Addictions
Addictions are subtle, insidious monsters, and they can take roost inside all of us. We're not just talking about the addictions we see in movies or television. We're not just talking about the addictions we sleight, either. We're talking about our broad human inability to deal with pain, and how that pain manifests in our lives in destructive ways. This week on the show, Michelle leads us through the high level story of addiction and shares techniques for spotting addictive behavior, and uncovering the pain that sits beneath the surface. It's a terrific conversation that sets the stage for more addiction in coming episodes, so tune in this week!
Feb 10, 2015 • 25min
008: Want a successful relationship? Have a seat in the Adult Chair
The strongest relationships in our lives come when we are able to communicate with our partner from our adult chair, and they are communicating with us from their own. This week on the show, Michelle teaches us how to approach our partner as a support rather than a cheerleader. We roll-play on the show this week, demonstrating and deconstructing a partner conversation and illustrate some key concepts that will absolutely change the way you communicate with your friends, partners, and spouse. Join us!
Feb 4, 2015 • 19min
007: Fighting Fables: Facing our Stories & Assumptions
This week on the show, we're talking about stories. An example: You're on the highway. Someone races up next to you and cuts into your lane. You're surprised and scared for an instant, which leads to frustration — and maybe anger. That person is rude, oblivious, stupid, probably didn't see you because they don't care about others in their lives. … and so on, and so on. This is your story. A story you've made up about a person you have never met, based only on a split second fear reaction. These are the stories we tell ourselves to help us rationalize our reality. This week on the show, Michelle Chalfant shares where these stories come from, why it's so important to understand how they impact us, and offers insight to help us face our stories and let them go!
Jan 13, 2015 • 31min
006: Creating the Best Relationships with Our Selves
Of all the relationships in our lives, the relationship we carry on with our self is most notable. It is the one relationship that is with us all our lives, through our highs and lows, and yet it is most often neglected, ridiculed, or downgraded. To reach peace and concert with the world around us, we must first reach peace with the world inside us. Today on the show, Michelle Chalfant shares her process for helping others to determine the source of inner struggle through a challenging and practical experience leading Pete through some of his fears as a father. Want to connect with us? We'd love to discuss your questions on the show. Here's how! The Adult Chair on iTunes Michelle Chalfant on Facebook Michelle Chalfant on Twitter Pete Wright on Twitter
Dec 23, 2014 • 18min
005: Addressing Our Triggers
Happy holidays to all! And with the holiday season upon us, let's make a collective promise to keep cool heads as we're tossed in all sorts of crazy directions! To do that, we have to understand our triggers. Triggers are the emotionally charged reactions that we have when our comfortable state of "normal" is somehow tested. Did someone cut you off recklessly on the highway? Did you feel that surge of anger? That's a trigger. Did you find out all your friends were invited to a holiday party and you weren't? Did you feel that surge of jealousy? Another trigger! This week on the show, we're talking about triggers, how they hit us, how we can better understand them, and most importantly how we can create a new habit of curiosity in our triggers as we learn to understand ourselves in the process!
Dec 16, 2014 • 20min
004: The Adult Chair
Over the past two weeks, our conversation has centered on the child and adolescent chairs, moving from the creativity and trust of the child to the judgment and doubt of the adolescent. Today, we take on our namesake, the adult chair. The adult speaks in truth and fact. The adult is conscious, connected to the higher self. The adult is our keen observer, rational and patient. This week, we offer an exploration of the adult, and share insights into how the adult supports our growth from child and adolescent every day.
Dec 12, 2014 • 14min
003: The Adolescent Chair
The adolescent represents the formative emotional years erupting from the child. The adolescent is developing the ego, conceptualizing right and left brain activity, and is tested through new experiences of fear. But there are some terrific strengths of the adolescent, and coming to terms with this part of us can bring greater balance and overall emotional health. This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle Chalfant and Pete Wright talk about the critical developmental milestones of the adolescent and provide a foundation for understanding when we're getting stuck in our adolescent chair as adults.
Dec 2, 2014 • 23min
002: The Child Chair
As humans, we've worked for years to understand our inner child and the role the child plays in our adult psyche. It can be an enormous and elusive challenge, facing our child as we struggle with what challenges us as adults. Why is understanding the role of the child important to our overall emotional balance and health? This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle introduces us to the child chair and brings into focus the path we can take to discover our relationship with our own inner child as we continue our series on the three chairs.
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Nov 21, 2014 • 17min
001: Introducing The Adult Chair — Meeting Michelle
Welcome to The Adult Chair with Michelle Chalfant. Michelle Chalfant has been a seeker her whole life. Through her own journey of discovery and her decades of work as a therapist, she has developed an approach to understanding the struggles we all experience as we move through the world each day. In The Adult Chair, we'll be using Michelle's framework as a foundation for better understanding our relationship with ourselves. Along the way, we'll host an ongoing conversation around stress, anxiety, physical health, and how our understanding of ourselves impacts the most important relationships in our lives. This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle shares a bit of her own story with Pete Wright, the story that lead to this podcast. She introduces the chair model — originally created by Susan Austin Crumpton, one of Michelle's most inspirational teachers — and how this model inspires her own work to this day. She provides an overview to her guided approach to living authentically that she uses with clients each day. For more information on Susan Austin-Crumpton, visit The Estuary.
