262: Transforming using The Adult Chair with Susan Gorey
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It takes courage to do our work and look at the stuff that scares us, and I believe we all need encouragement and inspiration along the way. And the story I have for you today is SO inspiring!
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I got to know Susan Gorey as part of The Adult Chair\\xae Coaching Certification Program. From the beginning, I could feel Susan\\u2019s strength and her fearlessness around speaking up for what she felt was right. But I also witnessed her unconsciously causing others to feel uncomfortable and unsafe around her. Susan called it putting off a feeling of \\u201cbroken glass\\u201d \\u2014 a sharpness or sense of conflict or that would sometimes come out in communication. During the certification program, she faced this \\u201cbroken glass\\u201d and some of her deepest fears. This caused her to go through an incredible and fast transformation\\u2026and I know it\\u2019s real, because it\\u2019s stuck!
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In this episode, Susan shares what it was like growing up in an environment filled with criticism and conflict and how that childhood wounding caused her to show up later in life \\u2014 looking for love through masks, feeling like she had to be bold and strong and not always self-regulating her approach to conflict and relationships.
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Then she shares how she used The Adult Chair and our work together to drop the cement suitcase she was carrying from childhood, go deep into the shadow beliefs she carried and transform from within so her wounding stopped running the show. This is a raw and real episode that shows what truly is possible on this journey of healing!
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Listen to discover:
- Susan\\u2019s story of transformation using The Adult Chair model
- How she broke a generational cycle of criticism and judgment
- Her journey of dropping the cement suitcase and no longer living from her wounding
- How we worked together to bring an experiential shift into her life
- The changes she has seen in herself and her relationships since her transformation
At the end of the episode, I share a very special surprise for Susan that might leave you a little teary-eyed (at least she and I were!).
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I love Susan\\u2019s story so much because it\\u2019s a beautiful example of how we don\\u2019t have to change who we are when we transform\\u2026we actually reveal who we really are. Susan\\u2019s strength and tenacity are beautiful qualities \\u2014 and now she and everyone around her gets to experience them from her Adult self instead of the wounded self.
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Doing our work isn\\u2019t easy, but as Susan shows, when we\\u2019re willing to go into the darkness and shadows and walk through them, we can stop living in them and instead find new life on the other side!
\\u201cWe have to clean our slate...because we can only take people as far as we have gone.\\u201d - Michelle Chalfant
\\u201cI brought light to my shadowy areas.\\u201d - Susan Gorey
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\\u201cWe all live from our childhood wounding. We all get covered up. That true self gets covered up by all these masks.\\u201d - Michelle Chalfant
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\\u201cIn The Adult Chair, we become conscious of who we are and our wounding.\\u201d - Michelle Chalfant
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\\u201cWhat I realized is my wounding, my childhood, my sadness and all of those masks...I didn\\u2019t have to carry it anymore.\\u201d - Susan Gorey
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\\u201cWe get signs of who we are all the time.\\u201d \\xa0- Michelle Chalfant
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\\u201cWhen we look at our stuff that scares us the most, we come out as transformed people.\\u201d\\xa0 - Michelle Chalfant
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Resources
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Susan Gorey Website
https://forwardtogethercoaching.com/
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The Adult Chair\\xae Membership (May Theme: \\u201cI Own.\\u201d)
https://theadultchair.com/membership/
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The Adult Chair\\xae Coaching Certification Program
https://theadultchair.com/certification-program/
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More Adult Chair
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The Adult Chair\\xae Website
https://theadultchair.com\\xa0
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The Adult Chair\\xae Membership
https://theadultchair.com/membership/
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The Adult Chair\\xae Workshop
https://theadultchair.com/events/
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The Adult Chair\\xae Coaching Certification Program
https://theadultchair.com/certification-program/
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TAC Circles\\xae
https://theadultchair.com/taccircles/
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Stay Connected
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelle.chalfant
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichelleChalfantFanPage/
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The Adult Chair\\xae Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theadultchair/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Michellechalfant
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