The Michelle Chalfant Show — Life from the Adult Chair

For too many years, mental health came with a stigma. 

It was treated as something “wrong” in the mind, with the psychological and physical looked at entirely separately. 

It’s almost as …

As you think about your life, do you ever wish your story was different?

You wish you more of this, less of that, that an event had never happened, that you had done the thing you will always regret …

‘Tis the season…for triggers!

At the holidays, stress, drinking, spending money and spending time with others all increase. And with that, comes a decrease in patience, sleep, time for self an…

The holidays are a time where it feels like everything is a bit magnified: there is so much joy and brightness in the world but also space for sadness, loneliness and grief to be amplified.

It…

What image comes to mind when you think about self-care?

A massage or bubble bath?

A fancy dinner?

Being all zenned out in lotus pose?

Though these things can be wonderful, I also think they can …

Have you ever felt stuck in life, like you dislike where you are but think you have no other options?

This is one of my least favorite places to be (and I’ve been there many times). Being unha…

We all have a “true self” – the essence of who we were before the world told us who to be. 

We’re born with this essence, but over time, we start reacting to the world around us and create a f…

Everyone seems to have an opinion about psychedelics these days.

Doctors and therapists see them as potential treatments for things like anxiety, depression and PTSD. Spiritual communities bel…

Triggers are a gift.

Yes, you heard that right (and if you’ve been here for a while, you’ve heard me say it before) – I LOVE being triggered! 

That’s not to say it’s fun being triggered…

Do you ever wonder why you do what you do…and if it’s just you who does it?

Your gifts, your life’s mission, how much energy you have, what you need in relationships, how you view money – thes…

When we think of trust in a relationship, most of us think of broken trust and big betrayals – things like infidelity, addiction and secrets.

But true trust is about the small actions that we …

For millennia, cultures around the globe have known that there’s more to us than meets the eye and that our family trees really are a map to ourselves — an energetic portrait of our lives.

Tod…

What if everything you do in your life is actually driven by one question – a question that is unconscious to you but acts as the command center for how you show up in the world?

That question…

Grief is a messy, complicated emotion, and very few of us know what to do with it.

We don’t want to (or know how to) feel it, and when we’re around others who are grieving, most of us freeze.

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You’re here today, doing the work, living from your Adult Chair, becoming who you want to become. 

It feels really good. But as we live and grow and transform, it can sometimes bring up negati…

Codependency is one of those issues that can often come across as selfless to those around us...in fact, it might even earn us praise because we seem so nice and helpful (although at our own expens…

Grief, anger, sadness, fear…YUCK! I don’t know anyone who likes to feel these emotions. 

I get emails from you guys all the time asking how to get rid of “negative” emotions like these.

But…

Our society today is facing an epidemic of anxiety. Despite technology that promises to make our lives faster and easier, it seems that we’re more anxious than ever. In 2020, Google searches for “a…

Do you ever feel like you’re being disloyal to your family for having your own life? Or do you feel like you’re second fiddle to your partner’s parents?

If so, you or your partner might come f…

Rejection is one of the greatest fears we have as humans. Even simple rejections like not making the team or being chosen for a job – things we know aren’t personal – still sting deeply. Why does r…