Isolation – the invisible prison of shame 6 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Shame , No Comments Isolation. This single word has been staring at me from a yellow Post-it note I scribbled during a webinar a couple of weeks ago. I can no longer remember why I wrote […]
All addictions are unresolved traumas 29 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , Pornography , Shame , No Comments My personal journey into recognising and resolving trauma began with addiction—in this case, pornography. While I quickly realised that porn addiction is a cry for help from the unconscious, I didn’t at […]
Healing the mother wound – from transactional to relational living 20 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments One of the most damaging aspects of the mother wound is that it changes our way of interacting with others from relational to transactional. Instead of our interactions being led by […]
The Authority Quadrant 16 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments Some years ago, in a blog titled The spine of patriarchy – lack of inner authority, I described a lack of personal authority as one of the building blocks of patriarchal society. Patriarchy functions on the simple premise that […]
3 Truths about the mechanics of truth 4 April 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We tend to think of truth in a very binary way: true or false, with nothing between. Perhaps we admit the existence of shades of grey. Yet we don’t tend to think of Truth […]
3 Principles of empowered communication 13 March 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments By its very nature, trauma is a place of disempowerment, a state of less-than, a psychological prison where we find it hard to make ourselves heard. As we shed trauma, we must learn the tricks […]
The Reiterative Trauma Unlocking Tool 11 March 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I tried, honestly. I tried to make up a catchy acronym that accurately conveyed what this thing does. I’ve ended up with RTUT—the Reiterative Trauma Unlocking Tool—which I admit is neither sexy […]
The mother wound happened through depersonalisation 11 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In What is the mother wound? I describe the failure of genuine emotional nurturing that created humanity’s blindly rapacious, self-destructive psychological paradigm—what we call ‘normal’ but I call the Patriarchal Operating System. The mechanism that […]
Trauma release timeline – from past to present 10 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Releasing trauma is a confusing experience. We’re dealing with past and present simultaneously, and the two can be hard to differentiate as the trauma unravels. In this post I explain the basic dynamic […]
The mother wound – why we confuse nurturing and sex 9 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments During the long and painful journey to heal the mother wound, we often encounter issues around nurturing and sex. Whether we’re single or in a committed relationship, our needs feel unmet. […]