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The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Welcome to The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant, 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…
Episodes
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
240: Expanding Consciousness with Dr. Dain Heer
What if you had far more say over your life than you realized? What if you could create the reality you want...just by changing your perspective? As we learn…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
239: Guilt from The Adult Chair
It can be really tough to talk about guilt. No one wants to focus on a mistake they've made, and it can be especially hard to own and admit when we've done…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
238: Holiday Series: 5 Steps to Peace
I believe you can find peace no matter where you are in life, and I believe that because I have lived it! I spent the first part of my life living with anxiety…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
237: Healthy & Balanced Eating During the Holidays with Jessi Jean
Food is such a beautiful part of life. It's a way of connecting with others and bringing enjoyment to your life. Unfortunately, we live in a world that makes…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
236: How to Stay in Your Adult Chair During the Holidays
The holidays are almost upon us...and if holidays didn't already come with stressful situations, now we get to navigate the holidays in 2020! A contentious…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
235: Holistic Healing with Dr. Nicole LePera
While our go-to image of mental health might be a couch in a therapist's office, the world is slowly changing (and I'm SO glad it is!). Don't get me…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
234: Anger and Healthy Relationships with Dr. Christian Conte
Emotions are my love language, and I'm all about learning to really feel our emotions...every single one of them. But some emotions are easier for us to feel…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
233: I'm Codependent. Now What?
"Codependency." You finally have a word to describe why you've been feeling so overwhelmed and drained your whole life. And while I'm not the biggest fan of…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
232: Overcoming Relationship PTSD
We all know a bad relationship can wreak havoc on our lives, from our self-esteem to our goals and dreams. But most of us don't know that the effects of a bad…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
231: Practical Ways to Slay Anxiety with Shann Vander Leek
It's hard to find words for the times we are living in today. Interesting, scary, stressful, angry, strange...it feels like one minute we can have it together…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
230: Cutting Through Depression
From the outside — and to herself — Tonya looked like she had it all together...until one day, all the "spinning plates" fell and she collapsed. That moment…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
229: End Self-Sabotage
Do you ever catch yourself setting a goal…and then doing the exact opposite? Maybe it's deciding to get in shape…and then reaching for the chocolate cake…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
228: Breakthrough Treatments for Anxiety, Depression and Stress with Dr. David Rabin
Buckle your seat belts, because our guest today is today is about to take you on a trip deep into the human mind — and help you understand how to naturally…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
227: The Benefits of a Meditation Practice with Sharon Salzberg
In 1974 when Sharon Salzberg discovered meditation, there were no meditation apps, mainstream teachers, corporate retreats or scientific studies backing the…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
226: Healing and Repairing Relationships
We're all human and we all make mistakes. Unfortunately, sometimes those mistakes hurt people we love and can even create distance or damage in our most…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
225: Raising Kids from The Adult Chair
"Help! I think I've ruined my kids' lives!" I can't tell you how many times I've heard this from clients, listeners and even my own inner critic. No one gets a…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
224: The Law of Attraction with Christy Whitman
Before studying the Law of Attraction, Christy "had it all" but still felt really unhappy and unfulfilled. As she began seeking, she discovered meditation and…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
223: Tragedy and Marriage Transformed - April's Story
The Adult Chair is a powerful model for healing our wounds and becoming more empowered in our lives...but it has the power to change more than just ourselves…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
222: Summer Series: Ending Procrastination, Perfectionism and People Pleasing
Are you ready to shift out of procrastination, perfectionism and people pleasing? I can't imagine anyone that doesn't have their hand up! In today's show, we…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
221: Summer Series: Setting Healthy Boundaries
Why do people cringe at the suggestion of setting a boundary? So many people respond with, "I don't like confrontation" when I suggest a boundary. Setting…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
220: Summer Series: Childhood Wounding in the Enneagram with Ramona Reid
By nature, all of us have the Child, Adolescent and Adult parts of ourselves...but these parts can look very different depending on our personality and life…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
219: Summer Series: Building Self-Esteem
We can never have enough self-esteem. So many of us didn't have healthy self-esteem role models growing up, so we are embarking on this journey now. The good…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
218: Summer Series: I'm in a Relationship with a Narcissist
Relationships with narcissists are insidious. They begin one way, and over time, very slowly and covertly, they change and become poisonous. We wake up one day…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
217: Summer Series: Attachment and Relationships with Silvy Khoucasian
We all have different ways that we connect and bond with others, and in psychology, we call this "attachment style." For example, some of us are anxious in our…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
216: Navigating 2020 from your Adult
As we reach the last week of June and find ourselves halfway through 2020, I'm having a hard time finding words for this year. It has felt like a year of…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
215: From Hopelessness to Healing with Ruthie Lindsey
As humans, we all want to avoid pain and suffering...but what if pain can be a gateway to our healing? What if experiencing sadness actually increases our…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
214: Change Your Mind with Marisa Peer
Why do you do what you do? That question is probably more difficult to answer than most of us think...not only because we often don't know ourselves well, but…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
213: Walking Through Fear with Michelle Poler
With everything going on the world the last few months, fear has been on all of our minds recently. Though this fear is very real, it's also related to events…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
212: Boundaries Crash Course
Boundaries are one of those things that I think we can never talk too much about! Though this is a simple topic, boundaries are difficult for most of us — but…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
211: Empaths and Highly Sensitive Persons with Dr. Judith Orloff
"Empath" is one of those words that has become a buzzword over the last few years, and it has us empaths who have felt different our whole lives yelling…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
210: Improving and Deepening the Connection with Your Partner
Most of us long for deeply connected relationships — it's a core part of our wiring as humans! But even when we're in a relationship, many of us don't know how…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
209: Domestic Abuse - A Child's Experience
As we discuss the rise of domestic abuse during the COVID-19 crisis and the pervasiveness of this issue around the world, I wanted to shed some light on…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
208: Triumph Over Abuse - An Interview With Survivors
Studies show that since the start of the COVID-19 quarantine, domestic abuse is up by 30 to 40 percent worldwide. Abusers are using the global crisis to…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
207: The Narcissism and Codependency Connection with Ross Rosenberg
Today, we're talking about two of our listeners' favorite topics — narcissism and codependency. I've discussed these topics individually on the show before…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
206: 5 Steps to Peace
For the first time in history, the entire world is sharing the same fears and the same hopes. With so much chaos all around us and with everyone's life…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
205: Stress and your Enneagram Type with Ramona Reid
The world is experiencing a time of high stress and universal confusion like most of us have never experienced in our lifetimes. We are all walking through a…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
204: Natural Remedies for Anxiety and Overwhelm with Annie Boerner
There is no doubt that it's not an easy time for the nervous system. With the amount of collective and personal fear and stress in our world right now, our…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
203: Resilience in Turbulent Times with Linda Graham
As much as we hate to admit it, difficult times are part of life. Sometimes, they come in the form of trying seasons in our personal lives; other times, the…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
202: Turning Tragedy into Triumph with Amberly Lago
I am so excited about today's episode — both because I'm interviewing someone I deeply admire, the inspiring Amberly Lago, and because this show couldn't have…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
BONUS: Finding Peace and Love Amidst the Chaos
As we are in the middle of a global pandemic that is causing so much fear and confusion, I wanted to offer you a bonus episode with a free meditation to help…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
201: Using the Polyvagal Theory to Balance Your Nervous System with Deb Dana
You know the feeling when your nervous system kicks into overdrive. Maybe you freeze in place or your heart starts racing, your body pumping with adrenaline…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
200: Celebrating 200 Episodes!
I truly can't believe we're here — the 200th episode of The Adult Chair podcast and over 2 million downloads! This started out as an experiment to help my…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
199: Dating from the Adult Chair
Everybody wants to be happy, and most of us want a partner to share our happiness and lives with. But finding that partner? Easier said than done. Dating can…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
198: Transforming Fear
Fear creeps in and out of our lives all the time. It's just a human emotion, but it's a sneaky one. It starts small, then all of the sudden, we're overtaken by…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
197: Know and Grow Self Love
The other day I heard from someone who was having a bad day. She asked if this meant she had lost her self-love and how she could know she had enough…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
196: Spotting Covert Narcissism
We all know the word "narcissism." We can usually spot a narcissist a mile away. They are loud, want all the attention and can be obnoxious. This is known as…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
195: From Anxiety & Panic to Peace
What do you do when anxiety creeps up out of nowhere and sends you into a state of panic? Maybe it's a stressful call or email, an overflowing to-do list or…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
194: Purge, Connect & Reach: 3 Simple Steps to Change Your Mood
There is nothing worse than when we find ourselves caught in a bad mood. Whether we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or something triggers us and sends us…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
193: Boundaries in Relationships with Nedra Glover Tawwab
We can never talk enough about boundaries! They are so important for loving ourselves, living empowered and creating healthy relationships, but most of us…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
192: Sex Addiction with Abbe Barclay
I have heard from so many of you that wanted more information on Sex Addiction so I decided to have my friend and sex addiction specialist Abbe Barclay on…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
191: Finding True Freedom
Happy New Year! I thought long and hard about this kick off show and know how so many of us strive for big change in the New Year but in my experience, small…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
190: Cleansing Relationships and Cutting Cords
We made it through the holidays! How are you feeling...Drained, relieved, elated? Now is the best time to "clean yourself off" and today and get yourself ready…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
189: Breaking Free from Victim
In a word, victim energy is just plain yucky. We fall into victim when we least expect it and "think" it feels good. We feel like we deserve to feel this way…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
188: The Wisdom of the Body in Healing with Patti Elledge
Today on the show we have Patti Elledge back again to talk about how we can heal our early developmental wounds, attachment wounds, trauma, abuse and more by…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
187: Codependency at the Holidays
Ah the holidays, what a wonderful time of year. The rushing around the shopping the preparing of food the obligations to attend all the parties. It's a…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
186: Staying Present During the Holidays
Happy Thanksgiving all! Today is the day that marks the official "mad dashing" around to get to the parties on time, buying the perfect gifts, lots of rushing…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
185: Overcoming Childhood Sexual Abuse with Dr. Gregory Williams
Childhood sexual abuse creeps into the lives of innocent children on a daily basis. As children, we are defenseless to our abusers. Dr. Gregory Williams was…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
184: Boundaries, Empowerment and Finding Truth - Client Session
I am so excited about this show. On today's show I interviewed a client and she was able to find her truth, step into her power and learn how to set…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
183: Understanding and Healing our Defenses with Karen Gelstein
On today's show we have one of my favorite people and therapists, on the show-Karen Gelstein. Karen helped us to understand our defenses and how to heal them…
- The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
182: Where is My Adult Chair?
Happy Halloween! After so many questions coming in about The Adult Chair, I felt like it was time to do a show on this. In today's episode I answer where the…