Using the memoir technique to access generational trauma 19 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment One of the simplest techniques for breaking into the heart of your family’s past is memoir writing. You don’t have to write a whole book. You can […]
How to do a 360-degree generational trauma evaluation 18 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment I was recently, and rather painfully, forced to revisit a trauma that I thought was done and dusted. I realised afterwards that I hadn’t viewed the trauma […]
Using a SIPOC diagram to attribute generational trauma 17 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’m a former industrial process analyst who, by necessity, turned my attention to analysing hidden human emotional processes in general, and generational trauma in particular. I love […]
The ‘Lost Words’ exhibition reveals our deepening mother wound 16 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Mother wound , 1 Comment I recently visited the National Trust’s Ightham Mote property in Kent. (It’s pronounced ‘eye-tam’ in case you stalled out on that tongue-twister.) As well as the property’s usual displays, there […]
Our ‘inner child’ is the product of arrested development 11 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , 1 Comment The ‘inner child’ is a popular concept in pop-psychology to describe a wounded aspect of us, trapped like the child above in the fishbowl of adult life with no way to navigate that […]
How the mother wound externalises our values – and why this is critical 9 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , 1 Comment This is the most critical blog I’ve ever written. That’s why I’ve added the tag onto the title. I don’t want to shout or catastrophise, but […]
How the endocrine system created humanity’s core anxiety 5 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Cornerstones , 1 Comment The British Mental Health Foundation’s statistics for 2022-23 show that 37.1% of women and 29.9% of men reported “high levels of anxiety.” This rose from 21.8% and 18.3% respectively in the period […]
You can’t increase worthiness; you can only reduce unworthiness 3 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments Like many people, I’ve been fighting a long battle with feelings of low self-worth. I’ve spent years trying to ‘big up’ my sense of worthiness or do things […]
Into the unconscious in search of the miraculous 27 April 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , 1 Comment In the opening to his classic spiritual text In Search of the Miraculous, Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky writes: “I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false […]
How to use surrogate events to release trauma 21 April 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , 2 Comments When I started dealing with generational trauma, I didn’t notice the pattern at first. After a while, I noted a correlation between triggering buried trauma and geography. […]