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The Michelle Chalfant Show Life from the Adult Chair

79: Raising Teens from Your Adult Chair with James Wellborn

We all want that one manual for parenting teens but where is it? What do we do when we find out our teen has been drinking, using drugs, or vaping? For parents, this can be triggering and scary! Our goal is to learn to parent from a healthy place, and that’s when we learn to parent from our Adult Chair. This means we stay present, we respond vs react, we set healthy boundaries and have honest (and sometimes tough) conversations with our kids to keep them safe through their teen...

66: The Secret to Truly Helping Others Through Pain

When we are met with a friend or family member in pain — or grief, sadness, really any emotion — our instinct is to console them, to somehow help relieve their discomfort or even fix their pain. Here’s the problem: that doesn’t help. There is way to help others with their pain but it’s not what you’d think. When we demonstrate awareness, love, and willingness to be present in another’s pain, it provides a platform for change, and that’s what we’re going to teach you how to do on the...

64: Parenting Teens with the Adult Chair

As our kids move into their teenage years, they begin to distance themselves from us as parents. It’s perfectly normal! But that doesn’t make it any easier on us, and it forces us to change our approach to communicating with them. As they push back on us in an effort to find space themselves, we’re tempted to push back on them, to control and make demands of their time and attention. It’s a recipe for disaster in your relationship! Instead, try guiding them, focusing on their explorations as a reflective listener....

59: Surviving Middle School — Sage Advice from Parenting Expert Michelle Icard

Navigating the murky waters of middle school can be tough on a kid. But navigating the murky waters of parenting a middle schooler can be even tougher! Today on The Adult Chair, our middle school maven Michelle Icard joins us to talk about how middle school has changed since we had to face it (and how it hasn’t!). From social skills to hormones to technology to the parental relationship, Michelle has some fantastic insights that will help you keep a strong relationship with your middle schooler! LINKS & RESOURCES: MichelleIcard.com http://michelleicard.com/ Middle School Makeover:...

55: What’s Life Like in the Adult Chair?

The journey of The Adult Chair is not one of a destination, but rather an understanding. This week on the show, we talk about the confusion that can come to those who expect to live in their adult all the time, the frustration that comes with you feel like you finally understand what it feels like to sit in your Adult Chair, only to experience being snapped back into your Adolescent Chair thanks to your environment. Here’s the trick: it’s impossible to live in your Adult Chair all the time,...

46: How Do You Teach Your Child to Sit in the Adult Chair?

If you’re a human parent, you’ve probably faced some version of this question. How do you teach your kids how to be emotionally present in the world? How to protect themselves and be assertive, and how to live with grace and compassion all at the same time? The answer is both incredibly complicated and deceptively simple: you can’t. And that’s where we pick up on the show today, taking on the assumptions we make and the stories we tell ourselves that lead to frustration and shame in our ability to parent. The...

39: 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 from addictive behaviors, and forgiving an emotionally distant parent. These are HUGE questions, as you can imagine, but unfortunately all too familiar issues for so many of us. We have a two-part answer on the show. First, my own story, which I hope you can relate to and learn from. Second, I offer some of the tools and the framework you’ll need to move through the chairs, and walk through negative feelings...

35: 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. In addition to his practice, he’s served as a consultant in schools developing programs to support at risk youth, and he’s a strong advocate on radio, TV, and print in helping parents support their child’s healthy development. Dr. Wellborn is author of “Raising Teens in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting” that serves...

34: How Do We Become Conscious Parents?

Becoming a conscious parent means getting to know yourself well enough that you don’t let your own emotions get in the way of understanding who your kids are growing up to be. That’s harder than it sounds and requires you to sit firmly in your Adult Chair the older they get. This week on the show, I’ve got five strategies that will help you not only relate to your kids without judgment but understand them and protect them, too! MORE ADULT CHAIR: The Adult Chair Website https://theadultchair.com The Adult Chair Membership https://theadultchair.com/membership/ STAY CONNECTED: Instagram: @michelle.chalfant Facebook: facebook.com/MichelleChalfantfanPage The Adult...

The Michelle Chalfant Show Life from the Adult Chair

79: Raising Teens from Your Adult Chair with James Wellborn

66: The Secret to Truly Helping Others Through Pain

64: Parenting Teens with the Adult Chair

59: Surviving Middle School — Sage Advice from Parenting Expert Michelle Icard

55: What’s Life Like in the Adult Chair?

46: How Do You Teach Your Child to Sit in the Adult Chair?

39: Addiction & Forgiveness in the Home

35: Parenting in the 21st Century — Growing Healthy Teens with Guest Dr. James Wellborn

34: How Do We Become Conscious Parents?

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