About The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair® model is such a powerful tool that has helped me along my own journey towards self-compassion and acceptance.
It has helped me learn how to actually feel emotions in my body in a way that helps me honor the physical sensation while not getting caught up in the overwhelming thought tornado that oftentimes can keep us stuck.
It has helped me put down my armor and become more vulnerable to experience deeper relationships, and it has allowed me to feel more comfortable showing up as me – with my own needs, boundaries, and emotional experiences to share.
It has helped me experience the brief moment that occurs between a thought we have and the following action, so that I can consciously choose how to show up differently in my life each and every day.
I am so excited to have the opportunity to help you integrate this model into your own journey so that you can live a life more aligned with who you truly are and how you want to live!
The Adult Chair Model
The Adult Chair is a manual for your life. It’s a tool that helps you feel empowered, confident, and equipped with a clear roadmap to your healthiest, most authentic self. Through The Adult Chair, you will understand how your life experiences have shaped you, give a voice to the different parts of who you are, gain greater self-awareness, and respond to life in a healthy way.
The Child chair
Your inner child forms between ages zero and seven, and it is the foundation of your true feelings and needs. The inner child is deeply vulnerable, which makes it the source of deep, connected relationships. It is also where early wounding can occur, which shapes our view of the world as we grow up. When seated in the Child Chair, we find creativity, passion, spontaneity, trust, and intimacy.
The adolescent chair
In adolescence, you begin to develop your own identity and realize that you are separate and unique from the world around you. As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect yourself, whether the daggers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we become perfectionist, judgmental, and controlling, and we develop a mask to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting. Most of us live from this place until we awake and decide we are ready to change.
The adult chair
The Adult Chair represents your highest self: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truth over stories and assumptions, and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion. While seated in the Adult Chair, we can deeply connect with our inner child’s needs and feelings and objectively observe our adolescent’s behaviors. It is here, and only here, that we can become aware of—and overcome—the emotional triggers and negative patterns that hold us back.
Ready to experience who you truly are and witness your already complete wholeness?