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 […]
In patriarchy, everything is toxic 2 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments The word ‘patriarchy’ is mostly understood in simplistic terms. Patriarchies are societies where men rule, and women get bashed down. The problem with this view is that it clouds the extent to which such societies […]
What is sexual energy? 29 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Sexuality , 3 Comments What is sexual energy? It may seem like an odd question, an obvious question, even an unnecessary question. Yet it is the question that unlocks answers to some of life’s deepest mysteries. Sexual energy is high-octane, […]
We’ve rejected the dark side of the life cycle, and that is what ails us 5 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , 2 Comments When I was young, living in southern Switzerland, we used to make long holiday drives through the Italian countryside. The smell of manure was […]
What is racial trauma? 17 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , 3 Comments In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. I’ve broken down these sources into five key layers. In this article I’m […]
What is community trauma? 16 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , 1 Comment In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. I’ve broken down these sources into five key layers. In this article I’m […]
Humanity runs on a Patriarchal Operating System 18 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , 4 Comments For the past 6,000 years, ever since the dawn of patriarchy, humanity has been running on a specific psychological paradigm—the Patriarchal Operating System. What do I mean by ‘running’? I mean breathing, feeling, thinking, eating, […]
The mother wound – “The dreadful has already happened” 22 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , 2 Comments In a lecture a few years after the atomic bomb ended World War II, German philosopher Martin Heidegger asserted that “the dreadful has already happened.” The lecture, titled ‘The Thing’, was […]
What is the ‘false self’? 20 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , 1 Comment In blogs such as What is the unconscious?, What are shame-based issues? and How shame affects arrested development I describe the psychological legacy of patriarchy. Here I pull together various strands to describe some of the ways […]