How the endocrine system created humanity’s core anxiety 5 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Cornerstones , No Comments 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 […]
The mother wound leaves us feeling unprotected 13 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Mother wound , No Comments I’ve spent the whole of my life looking like the child in this evocative photograph from Jordan Whitt—feeling unprotected. Until recently, I never knew why. In The mother wound – “The dreadful […]
The orgasm reflex – nature’s cure for trauma and anxiety 28 November 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Cornerstones , Sexuality , No Comments We live in a world of growing crises, growing trauma, and growing anxiety. We’re desperately in need of solutions, a way of turning back the rising tide of […]
Align with your day to reduce anxiety 23 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Emotional principles , No Comments Align with your day. It’s a neat little catchphrase, but what does it mean? Aligning with your day is a tool for congruent living. It’s a method for engaging with life as […]
Breathe – and stay above the fear and rage 5 June 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments As I write this, coronavirus is sweeping the globe, public trust in the UK government has collapsed and the streets of America are full of rage. So is my social media feed: “It’s […]
Unconscious fear + flashpoint = fighting over toilet paper 28 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On Sunday 8th March, as the first wave of fear over the coronavirus swept the globe and induced panic shopping, two women fought over diminishing supplies of toilet paper at a Sydney supermarket. […]
Survival fears are crippling modern society 21 February 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On 19 February 2020 buses carrying 72 coronavirus evacuees were pelted with rocks in the village of Novi Sanzhary, Ukraine. Villagers clashed with riot police for several hours before the evacuees—none of whom had tested positive—reached […]
Unconscious shame is rooted in our survival fears 27 April 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Shame , No Comments I have written extensively on this site about unconscious shame in general and sexual shame in particular. In my Are YOU ashamed? toolkit I’ve listed some of the common effects of shame—such […]
The sexual energy quadrant – creativity, passion, playfulness and confidence 15 March 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Sexuality , No Comments We tend to think of sex as a component of our love lives, and that’s it. When we have a romantic partner, we have sex with them. Period. We don’t […]
There is a you-shaped space in the jigsaw puzzle of the world 5 March 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments Sometimes, we all need to hear this: there is a you-shaped space in the jigsaw puzzle of the world. Your uniqueness is valued. You are enough. Jigsaw I write this […]