3-Step trauma release process: disidentify, observe, feel 8 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Photo by Iulia Mihailov on Unsplash Trauma is not a single event. It’s a pattern—an energetic imprint—moving through us, often originating earlier than our conscious awareness. It behaves less like a fixed point and more like a […]
Humanity is ‘walking backwards through the Fall’ 4 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Patriarchy , No Comments Photo by redcharlie on Unsplash The past does not stay in the past. It courses through us, mostly bubbling like an underground stream, occasionally breaking the surface. For some of us—like me—the stream becomes a torrent […]
Ancestral trauma #9 – Apathy and futility 2 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , No Comments Photo by Iva Rajović on Unsplash In Ancestral trauma #8 – Fear of famine, I describe how long-term drought in the Sahara, Middle East and Central Asia led to desertification and famine. Apathy and a sense of […]
Ancestral trauma #8 – Fear of famine 1 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , No Comments Photo by Peter Muscutt on Unsplash When I was a child, I was sometimes puzzled by my mother’s food choices. She had a particular love of lard on toast—rendered pig fat on burnt, stale bread. Sweetbreads—the thymus […]
Trauma – 6 sources, 6 impacts 18 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments Some people collect butterflies. Matchbox cars. Stamps. I’ve been chasing down a systemic catalogue of trauma’s sources and impacts for some years. Sources of trauma In 2018 I wrote a blog (since deleted) […]
Escaping the present – trauma’s frozen fight-or-flight legacy 13 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Whenever I used to call my father, he always began the conversation with the same question: “What’s new?” It’s twenty years since he passed away, yet only now do I see the pain […]
Fear, shame, and irresponsibility – trauma’s three barriers 11 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments When we recognise trauma in our own lives and choose to engage with healing, we’re immediately confronted by a seemingly unsurmountable obstacle: how do I do it? The trauma—if we […]
Are you and your family running on empty? 11 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments When I was growing up in the 1970s, the songwriter who spoke most powerfully to my sense of abandonment, depersonalisation and disaffection was Jackson Browne. His 1977 live album Running on Empty, recorded […]
You can’t heal a trauma until you learn its lesson 8 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In my coaching work I encounter clients who want to ‘get rid’ of trauma. The assumption is that it’s much like going to the doctor to ‘get rid’ of an infection: […]
12-Step framework for trauma release 7 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments Trauma is mechanical. It forms under mechanical conditions and releases under mechanical conditions. The purpose of this 12-step framework is to understand the overarching mechanics of trauma so you can know and work with […]