The closer we get to a trauma, the more it affects us 24 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments When we speak of trauma, we tend to imagine it as something distant—an event in the past, safely contained. But trauma work reveals a different and […]
Unanswered genealogy questions – the secret garden in Italy 13 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments If you could go back in time and meet any of your ancestors, what are the unanswered questions you’d want to know more about? Unanswered questions I have several burning questions for […]
The Beaufighter – assembling genealogy clues 12 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Genealogy is a jigsaw puzzle. Whether we’re just searching for facts or trying to recover our family’s emotional narrative, we seek out puzzle pieces to help us build up the picture. Very often, these pieces […]
The slippery slope – multi-generational family fragmentation 11 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments A simple, sepia-toned holiday snap from the 1920s or 1930s, probably a seaside hotel somewhere in south-west Britain. Who took it? Probably my grandfather Charles. What the photograph doesn’t convey is that a fracturing […]
“They should be out looking for my father” 6 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Shortly before she passed away, my mother mentioned that my father only ever spoke of his own father once. They were driving through St. Helier, Jersey, at Christmas—this was probably in the mid-1950s—and […]
Releasing trauma – how to calm the nervous system 4 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments We live in a world where our nervous system is under constant assault. Doom scrolling, 24/7 hyperexcited news feeds, political and economic uncertainty and unsustainable busyness—let alone any […]
How the collective unconscious rules humanity 14 July 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments Forget the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, and the 1%. Much as it seems like they do, they do not hold the reins of human destiny. Humanity’s true ruler is its own morass of […]
‘Mental health’ is a misleading term 27 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments It’s June, and here in Britain another Mental Health Awareness Week has passed. In America, where everything is done on a larger scale, it lasts a whole month. A lot of digital column-inches have been […]
Vocal intonation – a secret giveaway of trauma 21 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In Character Analysis, Wilhelm Reich writes: “It is not what the patient says and does that is indicative of character resistance, but how he speaks and acts” (Reich’s italics). Here are three ways […]
All addictions are unresolved traumas 29 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , Pornography , Shame , No Comments My personal journey into recognising and resolving trauma began with addiction—in this case, pornography. While I quickly realised that porn addiction is a cry for help from the unconscious, I didn’t at […]