The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

Trouble staying in your Adult Chair when you're triggered? Me too! This week, I have a story all about my own triggering experience and I want to use it to demonstrate how to move through the chairs and release the power and energy that binds you in the trigger!

Trauma comes in many shapes and sizes. From single events to long-running experiences that take away our sense of safety and security. Even if it doesn't involve physical harm, it can lead toward isolation, depression, severe anxiety, and overwhelm. This week on the show, Michelle is back with a DriveTime Download inspired by the conversation on The Adult Chair private Facebook group to reflect on the nature of trauma and steps we can take to move forward in our Adult Chair!

Links & Notes

• The Adult Chair 80: How do I feel my emotions?

Leaving work and feeling inspired — I have a new Drivetime Download for you! This week, I want to talk all about clearing anxiety. It's a massive trigger for so many of us this time of year, coming through my clients and group members all struggling to numb out, to escape the experience of anxiety. This week I want to help you navigate the rough waters of anxiety leading to significant, long-term change in your life. It's time to get off the treadmill of temporary soothing of pain, so hop in the car with me and let's go!

We're in the middle of January right now and if you're like most of us, you're probably already giving up on some of your well-intentioned resolutions that you set on New Year's Eve. That's completely normal, even though it's likely disappointing. This week on the show, I'm going to give you a whole new way to think about accomplishing your goals: Making Change from the Adult Chair. Through visualization, meditation, journaling and so much more, you're going to find the intrinsic motivation that will drive you to set realistic goals and then meet them with clear mind, heart, and spirit!

Links & Notes

• Clearing out the Year — Facebook Video
• Register for Upcoming Adult Chair Workshops!

Were you feeling unnaturally thankful that 2017 ended, that you were embarking on a new journey for 2018? You're not alone, and today's guest is going to tell us all why! Rachel Lang is an intuitive astrologer and healer, and a consultant for businesses, and she's here to provide much needed perspective on a crazy year gone by, and guidance for the year to come!

Links & Notes

• Rachel C. Lang

Michelle is in the car again, this time answering some community questions on how to handle grief, particularly during the holidays. What do you from the Adult Chair when you need someone to show up for you, and support you in your time of grief? What about from the other perspective? How do you show up for someone else experiencing grief or loss this holiday season? All that and more in our last episode before the new year!

The holidays are upon is, and as a result more and more people are writing us to ask how you handle difficult family gatherings from the Adult Chair. So, we're on it! This week we're talking all about how you maintain your center, keep your calm, and don't let strife dominate your holiday. You'll be better equipped to define your own boundaries of what is and is not appropriate behavior. You'll be able to assess the codependency that can so quickly invade your relationships. And we've got one sure-fire way to keep yourself at peace thanks to EFT!

Links & Notes

• The Adult Chair Podcast 26: Boundaries vs. Confrontation
• The Adult Chair Podcast 11: Codependency: I'm OK if You're OK
• Introduction to EFT
• Follow The Adult Chair on Spotify!

So many of us are afraid of our anger. We use language like, "don't go there" or "stay calm". We to push it down and shove it away and teach ourselves to hide from it, and hide it from others. In fact, this is the programming we get from others when we have anger. People close to us tell us to "chill out", "calm down" or even "get over it". The most insidious: sometimes we even hear "you are scaring me". Of course, we don't want to scare others, so we shove down this powerful emotion, and there it sits, simmering.

But anger is an emotion of change. If we learn to sit with our anger just as we sit with our other emotions, we can come to understand it, to learn from it, and maybe even to love it in time. This week on the show, we're talking all about the anger that lives inside of all of us, and how we can live in harmony with it instead of fear!

Links & Notes

• New Adult Chair courses are live! Register now for Level 1 in Florida, or Level 2 in Tennessee now!
• Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique

Simple proximity to the holidays on the calendar can be a trigger for many of us. We watch as the days tick by, feeling the pressure of the holidays creep up on us, and with them, social and family anxiety that can disconnect us from our true selves.

This week on the show, I want to share with you some of the tools and techniques that can help you stay strong and present during the turbulent holiday weeks. You deserve a restful and energizing break full of love and warmth — with the right tools, you can bring the same to those around you!

Links & Notes

• Alternate Nostril Breathing (Nadi Shadan)
• The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• Support The Adult Chair — Sign up for a trial account at Audible.com! — Learn More

I'm back with my dear friend Ramona Reid on her radio show, Holistic Revolution Radio this week! Actually, this show was recorded last month, but we talked about all the things that are incredibly important for us to keep in mind over the Thanksgiving Holiday (here in the U.S.). So, in the whirlwind of craziness that comes with family and friends, this is a reminder to stay present, to free yourself from limiting beliefs, and to feel the feelings that are constraining you. Ramona asks some wonderful probing questions, and I'm confident this conversation is going to resonate with you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Links & Notes

• Find Holistic Revolution Radio on Facebook