ABOUT THE ADULT CHAIR
The Adult Chair teaches us to be strong from the inside out. We discover our real self and strength as we uncover defenses that no longer serve us. They keep us safe by hiding our weaknesses. Now is the time to take another look. Identifying parts is similar to creating mosaic art. Starting a project begins with making or finding the pieces, individual parts of the intended design. They are hand cut and polished, taken care of to be placed in the right spot. As the project finishes some pieces still need to be modified, some too big or small, sharp or missing. Do I need to trim it, use it, or toss it to the side? Does it serve a purpose now?
Identifying our parts is comparable to this art form.
The Adult Chair® model provides the tools to go back and identify those pieces that aren’t a perfect fit and put them where they belong.
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.
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