Emotional Reverse Engineering 9 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’ve likened generational trauma to the white spaces on old maps marked ‘Here be dragons’. We suspect something’s out there but we’re not exactly sure what. My experience is that when you consciously understand a […]
The Han – Korea’s community trauma 28 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In his award-winning documentary Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain visited Koreatown in Los Angeles and spoke to several self-confessed ‘bad Koreans’ who had defied family expectations about their lifestyles. All of them referred to the han […]
Feeling your family’s past 21 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments Genealogy is big business. We all know that family member constantly immersed in online research or rushing off to visit old battlegrounds or musty parish records. Over the years, the facts pile up in […]
The language of generational trauma 4 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments If you set out upon the hero’s journey of uncovering generational trauma, one of the obstacles you will encounter is a partial, or even entirely missing, language around trauma. This missing language may be yours or […]
12 Principles for clearing generational trauma 17 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments Over the course of recognising and releasing my own generational trauma, I’ve noticed various principles. These principles are repeatable, consistent, and constant. You can rely on them as much as any scientific […]
The science behind generational trauma 16 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments On the surface, generational trauma seems weird and unfathomable. Its manifestations can border on the supernatural. Yet there is increasingly solid science behind our understanding of inherited trauma. Here are a few of the key strands. […]
The trauma formula: who + what + where + when = why 11 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments There’s a principle in writing known as the Five W’s—who, what, where, when, and why. The Five W’s are sometimes known as ‘the reporter’s questions’. They’re commonly used in […]
The eyes in old photographs reveal family trauma 9 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments When it comes to generational trauma, photographs are interesting beasties. They are sometimes the only link we have with an old family member. Through both their presence and their absence, photographs cast light […]
The Law of Conservation of Energy governs generational trauma 8 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In the early 18th century, natural philosopher Émilie du Châtelet proposed the Law of Conservation of Energy. Wikipedia: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or […]
BBC’s The Repair Shop – the trauma also needs repairing 1 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , No Comments In recent months I’ve been binge-watching the BBC’s long-running heirloom restoration show, The Repair Shop. “What’s in the box?” asks impresario Jay Blades as each new—well, old and badly […]