Meditation 15: I Am Love

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Meditation 15: I Am Love

FromThe Adult Chair

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Feb 14, 2017

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We're nothing but love, and we don't have to do anything to get it, for it is within.

Released:

Feb 14, 2017

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Podcast episode

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In The Adult Chair, Michelle Chalfant applies her holistic approach to healing and transformation as a foundation for better understanding our relationship with ourselves and our relationship with stress, anxiety, depression, physical health, self-love, peace, emotional balance, and how our understanding of ourselves impacts the most important relationships in our lives.

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006: Creating the Best Relationships with Our Selves: 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. by The Adult Chair
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007: Fighting Fables: Facing our Stories & Assumptions: This week on the show, we’re talking about stories. 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 by The Adult Chair
19 min listen
013: Accessing our Inner Child — A Meditation with Michelle: But accessing our inner child is not always easy, nor is it always comfortable without some help. That’s why this week on the show, Michelle offers a meditation, a guide on your journey to reach your inner child. Sit back, close your eyes, and reach out by The Adult Chair
25 min listen
001: Introducing The Adult Chair — Meeting Michelle: This week on The Adult Chair, Michelle Chalfant shares a bit of her own story with Pete Wright, the story that lead to this podcast. She provides an overview to her guided approach to living authentically that she uses with clients each day. by The Adult Chair
17 min listen
002: The Child Chair: 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. by The Adult Chair
23 min listen
009: Addressing Addictions: 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 ad by The Adult Chair
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024: Communicating with our Inner Child — A Session with Sarah: We get triggered, feel painful emotions and go into “fix it mode.” The answer to our triggers and pain is to find the core emotion and go into it. This is where true healing occurs. Bonding with our Inner Child is the only way to do this. by The Adult Chair
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018: Healing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster: Timing is everything, right? And just in time for Mother’s Day, we have an amazing conversation with an amazing woman and healer. Bethany Webster joins us on The Adult Chair to introduce us to the Mother Wound. by The Adult Chair
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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. by The Adult Chair
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033: Mastering Forgiveness: Forgiveness is a deeply personal thing. But whether you label yourself as a “forgiving person” because you’re afraid of conflict in the adolescent chair, or living in an authentically forgiving place in the adult chair is determined first and foremo by The Adult Chair
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014: The Shadow: This week on the show, Pete and I talk about the shadow, how to move into a mode of discovery, to unlock and embrace the secrets of our shadow, and work to become whole. by The Adult Chair
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003: The Adolescent Chair: The adolescent represents the formative emotional years erupting from the child. by The Adult Chair
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039: Addiction & Forgiveness in the Home: This week’s show comes courtesy of a listener with some incredibly important questions around addiction, living with family suffering with addictive behaviors, and forgiving an emotionally distant parent. by The Adult Chair
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005: Addressing Our Triggers: 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! by The Adult Chair
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016: Cultivating Our Deepest Connections: I had a conversation with my husband this week that got me thinking about connections. Human connections. So this week on the show I want to talk about how we support one another when we need it most. by The Adult Chair
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019: The Law of Attraction by The Adult Chair
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012: Love Addiction & Love Avoidance with Special Guest Sarah Bridge: This week on the show, Sarah Bridge joins us today to help frame love addiction and love avoidance and her approach to helping others learn to love more authentically in her own practice. by The Adult Chair
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029: The Power of Intention: It’s January! With the turn of the New Year come all sorts of promises we make to ourselves as we look to make change in our lives. From losing weight to desires of greater mindfulness, these resolutions are signposts that we’ve crossed another year o by The Adult Chair
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021: Grounding and the Energy of the Earth with Sarah Weiss: I’m so excited to have Sarah Weiss of the SpiritHeal Institute on the show with us today. With Sarah, I’d like to introduce the concept of grounding on the show, an incredibly important energy practice that can help you find your true self. by The Adult Chair
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025: Relationship Rescue by The Adult Chair
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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. by The Adult Chair
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037: Dr. Dodge Rea — Introducing the GRACE Sequence: It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you Dr. Dodge Rea, the originator of The GRACE Sequence. by The Adult Chair
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010: Anxiety & Fear — In Practice with "Lola": 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 shar by The Adult Chair
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042: Inviting your Relationship into the Adult Chair with Michelle and Graham Chalfant: Worlds collide! This week on the show, for the very first time in over three years, Pete and I got to meet face-to-face! by The Adult Chair
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020: Open Up to Voice Dialogue with J. Tamar Stone: Our guest today is J. Tamar Stone. I’m so excited to introduce Tamar’s work to you today as she is not only capable of amazing things, her concept of Voice Dialogue and Body Dialogue fit absolutely perfectly into the work we’re doing in The Adult Ch by The Adult Chair
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022: Walking the Spiritual Path: Finding Peace in a Pile of Crap: Walking the spiritual path is not easy. It’s not instant. It takes practice and dedication. These are the truths of awakening that sometimes plague those on the hunt for instant gratification. More often than not, it’s less a field of wildflowers than by The Adult Chair
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036: Mindfulness and Sitting with our Negative Emotions: You can’t heal negative emotions. They exist, and we all move in and out of them throughout our days, weeks … our whole lives. by The Adult Chair
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015: Tapping Your Way to Pain-Free with EFT: This week, we're talking about EFT, or "Emotional Freedom Technique." You may have heard of it referred to as tapping for short, and it's one of my favorite tools for helping my clients break free from anxiety, depression, generalized stress, and pain! by The Adult Chair
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011: Codependency: I'm OK if You're OK: This week, we take on codependence from the perspective of the chairs, and talk about how stunted emotional growth can keep us living in our adolescent when it comes to some of the most important relationships of our lives. by The Adult Chair
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035: Parenting in the 21st Century — Growing Healthy Teens with guest Dr. James Wellborn: Dr. James Wellborn is a clinical psychologist who specializes in individual, family, and group psychotherapy with children and adolescents addressing the range of challenges faced by families and teens during this period of development. by The Adult Chair
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Meditation 15: I Am Love

Meditation 15: I Am Love

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