Self-connection – the aim of all inner work 6 February 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments As a coach specialising in inherited trauma, shame, and impostor syndrome, I talk a lot about trauma and releasing trauma. Yet releasing trauma is not an end of itself. The […]
Trauma formation: emotional overwhelm reduces threat perception 30 January 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Continuing our exploration of the mechanics of trauma formation, in this blog I want to examine the exact moment of emotional overwhelm in more detail. This is the moment that homeostasis—our psychic regulator—is under […]
Arrested development – humanity’s collective immaturity 28 January 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , No Comments As I write this, the 2026 World Economic Forum annual meeting is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Eyes are focused on our increasingly fractured and unstable world. Giants of the global stage such as Donald Trump […]
Point of no return – the trauma ejection cycle 27 January 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I notice in my trauma coaching clients a clear division between those who seek to stabilise or release trauma, and those who’ve passed a point of no return where their trauma is […]
If someone hurts you, can you accept it as a gift? 21 January 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We’ve all been hurt. Deeply, unexpectedly, by those we love or trust. The instinctive reaction is to retract—to protect, to numb, to blame. But what if these experiences are not […]
Trauma formation: how fight-flight becomes freeze-fawn 13 January 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In 1915, physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon first described the fight-or-flight response. What has since become clear is that under certain conditions, operations of this mechanism are disrupted—and fight-or-flight becomes freeze-and-fawn. Fight or flight Fight-or-flight is “a physiological […]
Mother & father wounds – the arrested development of humanity 10 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , Mother wound , No Comments The slightest critical glance at the state of planet earth reveals a human species in physical, emotional, and intellectual decline. This decline is due to a […]
Tourette’s syndrome – a presentation of unconscious shame 7 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments Tourette’s Syndrome is a condition that the medical establishment has been unable to cure. I’ve recently had success treating it as a presentation of unconscious shame. Here I present my reasoning and results. What […]
Impostor syndrome – a child asked to do an adult’s job 4 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments While not (yet) clinically recognised, impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern whose effects are increasingly recognised and whose roots predate our own lives. Impostor syndrome is the experience […]
The closer we get to a trauma, the more it affects us 24 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments When we speak of trauma, we tend to imagine it as something distant—an event in the past, safely contained. But trauma work reveals a different and […]