Trauma-Informed Genitality: healing the sacral centre 6 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , Sexuality , No Comments Human sexuality, in its natural state, is not inherently conflicted, shameful, or fragmented. It is life energy—playful, relational, embodied. Yet if we look honestly at our lived experience, both individually and […]
Wilhelm Reich – visionary, liar, or lunatic? 5 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Sexuality , No Comments In his brilliantly penetrating—pun intended—1942 book, The Function of the Orgasm, early psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich writes: “Man is the only biological species which has destroyed its own natural sex function, and that is […]
“When the dictatorships have come to naught” 1 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments “When the dictatorships have come to naught, human society will have need of truths, and precisely unpopular truths.” Early psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich wrote these words in The Function of the Orgasm (1942), a book that […]
Kill or be killed – the basic patriarchal equation 1 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Patriarchy , No Comments In 2020, In a blog called The 3 laws of patriarchy, I suggested that the basic psychological laws governing patriarchal societies were these: The Law of Masculinity—the masculine rules the […]
Trauma-Informed Genealogy: where history and healing meet 29 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments There is a quiet convergence happening that is, as yet, largely unrecognised. On one side are therapists, working with the symptoms of trauma as they appear in the present: anxiety, depression, addiction; stumped by […]
Untold family stories: deliberate silence or dissociation? 28 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments There is a strange silence that runs through many family histories. It appears, at first glance, deliberate: names omitted, events blurred, whole chapters missing. We tend to assume that someone, somewhere, chose not to […]
How to drive consciousness into the unconscious 27 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I often encounter people who are aware they have ‘issues,’ but have no leverage for resolving them, resulting in these issues circling endlessly. The reason for this is that most people don’t have […]
All trauma is survival trauma 26 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Generational trauma , No Comments We tend to think of trauma as something exceptional—something that happens in extreme situations, to other people, at other times. This is a naïve and comforting illusion. Trauma is not the exception. It’s […]
The importance of context in genealogy research 24 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Context, context, context. When researching our family’s genealogy, we encounter events that are familiar to us today—like births, marriages, and deaths—and other events that are different from the past yet whose context we understand. […]
Are you ashamed of presenting yourself to the world? 23 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments Shame does not announce itself. It doesn’t arrive as a clear thought or labelled with a health warning. It dwells underground: buried in our unconscious, wrapped in denial, reinforced by silence and the […]