027 - Healing Binge Eating Through The Adult Chair With Michelle Chalfant, MS LPC CHC

Oct 15, 2019

You’re much more equipped to heal from binge eating than you give yourself credit for and on today’s episode, Jessi and her guest Michelle will be discussing how to get back in tune with your body. Michelle Chalfant is a licensed therapist, holistic life coach, author, speaker and podcaster. They discuss Michelle’s journey of struggling with her relationship with food and body and how she navigated herself out of that using The Adult Chair method. She explains what this method is, how to begin unlocking what’s keeping you stuck and the different healing modalities she likes. They chat about how to find the right therapist and how to get yourself off of autopilot and start becoming conscious about your everyday actions. 

 

In this episode:

• How Jessi and Michelle got connected through social media
• How Michelle began her work with The Adult Chair
• Realizing something wasn’t right in her life 
• Studying to become a counselor and realizing that she was depressed
• Combining a traditional approach with an alternative medicine approach
• Realizing she didn’t have a safe space 
• Growing up and being sneaky to eat more and using food as a stress reliever
• Looking at disfunction and thinking your trauma isn’t enough 
• Why Michelle got into self-development
• Exploring different healing modalities and not getting discouraged when something doesn’t work right away
• What healing modalities Michelle really enjoys
• Michelle’s advice for finding the right therapist
• Getting in tune with your own body
• How Michelle navigated herself back to balance and healed herself from binge eating
• Discovering your inner child and using that to activate your emotions in a healthy way
• Getting out of autopilot and being aware of what you’re doing
• How The Adult Chair model helps those struggling with disfunction in their relationships with food and body
• Michelle’s mission for helping people to transform

 

Links:

The Adult Chair Podcast

The Adult Chair Membership (Use code: JESSIJEAN30 for 1 FREE month of membership)

 

Connect with Michelle:

Website | Instagram | Facebook

 

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Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

 

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