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 […]
Unanswered genealogy questions – the secret garden in Italy 13 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments If you could go back in time and meet any of your ancestors, what are the unanswered questions you’d want to know more about? Unanswered questions I have several burning questions for […]
The Beaufighter – assembling genealogy clues 12 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Genealogy is a jigsaw puzzle. Whether we’re just searching for facts or trying to recover our family’s emotional narrative, we seek out puzzle pieces to help us build up the picture. Very often, these pieces […]
The slippery slope – multi-generational family fragmentation 11 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments A simple, sepia-toned holiday snap from the 1920s or 1930s, probably a seaside hotel somewhere in south-west Britain. Who took it? Probably my grandfather Charles. What the photograph doesn’t convey is that a fracturing […]
“They should be out looking for my father” 6 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Shortly before she passed away, my mother mentioned that my father only ever spoke of his own father once. They were driving through St. Helier, Jersey, at Christmas—this was probably in the mid-1950s—and […]
Releasing trauma – how to calm the nervous system 4 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments We live in a world where our nervous system is under constant assault. Doom scrolling, 24/7 hyperexcited news feeds, political and economic uncertainty and unsustainable busyness—let alone any […]
Humans are three-centred beings 3 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments In my journey towards wholeness, one of my early lighthouses was British psychiatrist R. D. Laing, who writes in The Politics of Experience (1967): “When our personal worlds are rediscovered… we discover first a shambles… genitals […]
Body shaming – bringing the penis into the light 2 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Sexuality , Shame , No Comments The penis is a difficult thing. Like anything difficult, we tend to sweep it under the carpet and deal with it by not dealing with it. This unspoken, unconscious […]
The mother wound – humanity’s single point of failure 1 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Every civilization has a fault line—a hidden weakness that quietly erodes its foundations. In human society, that weakness isn’t economic, political, or technological. It’s relational. It lives in the emotional body, in […]
Depravity – how humanity vents the mother wound 3 October 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments “If it wasn’t for bad, you’d be good,” Elton John sings on the opening track of The Union, his alt-country collaboration with Leon Russell. What’s that got to do with depravity? And why […]