Not measuring up 29 May 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I grew up in the shadow of World War 2, in the Channel Islands—the only part of the British Empire occupied by the Nazis. My mother’s family buried their valuables in a potato pot and evacuated to the […]

Does your family tree have any broken branches? 14 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments At the 2021 Intergenerational Trauma Conference, Peter Levine referred to trauma as “a rupture in the fabric of connectivity.” The process of healing inherited trauma is a process of restoring connectivity. To do […]

Does generational trauma attract us to genealogy? 9 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments We like to think that reason rules our lives, that every choice we make is conscious. What about our choice of interests? When something interests us, is that a choice, is it random—or is […]

8 Steps to identify family skeletons 6 April 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments How do you identify family skeletons, i.e. generational trauma, in your family? Your family tree is the obvious place to start—as are the emotional symptoms you’re observing, in your life or […]

Living with ghosts – confronting generational trauma 16 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments The first time I encountered generational trauma* I had no idea what I had hit. I had no idea I was living with ghosts. Put simply, generational traumas are unresolved traumas that are passed […]

Measuring wellbeing – the Family Stability Index 16 February 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I’ve blogged a lot about unconscious shame, and also written a little about generational trauma. This is inherited trauma, like a superficially mild case of PTSD that comes from scandals and traumatic events in […]