About The Adult Chair®
The Adult Chair is a lifeline for me. I don’t know where I would be without it.
I am certain I wouldn’t have the meaningful, connected relationships I now have.
The Adult Chair model provides a combination of honest, emotional, heart-centered work and practical tips and tools to lead you to an unimaginably rewarding life.
The Model
The Adult Chair model is a roadmap for life. It is applicable to anyone. It’s comprised of tools and resources you can use to gain empowerment, confidence and understanding in order to become your most emotionally healthy, authentic self.
By utilizing the tips, tools and recommendations from The Adult Chair model, you will begin to understand how your life experiences have shaped you and how you can work with the different parts of yourself to gain greater awareness and respond to life, rather than react to it.
The Child Chair
The inner child forms between ages zero and seven and is the foundation of our 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. When seated in the Child Chair, we find creativity, passion, spontaneity, trust and intimacy.
The Adolescent Chair
In adolescence, between the ages of seven and twenty-five, we begin to develop our own identity and realize that we are separate and unique from the world around us. As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect ourselves, whether the dangers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we may become judgemental, controlling or perfectionists. This is when we develop masks to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting. Most of us live from this place until we awaken and decide we are ready to change.
The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair represents our highest selves: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truths over stories and assumptions and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion. While seated in the Adult Chair, we are able to connect deeply 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 and limit our full potential.
