‘I remember, I remember’ – all our childhoods are imaginary 8 April 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I remember, I remember, The house where I was born,  The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn;  He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day,  […]

The only exit from the past is by going back through it 10 December 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments “The past is a door I don’t revisit very often”. I’ve heard this, and similar beliefs on leaving the past behind, over the years. This seems […]

Trauma never lies 4 December 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments When healing trauma, we’re dealing with the contents of our unconscious—which, by definition, are unclear to us. Trying to understand what traumatic events are still alive and kicking in our psyche can lead us into a fog of […]

The more traumatised we are, the more we defend our trauma 26 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments One of the characteristics of trauma that may seem confusing from the outside looking in, is that the more traumatised we are, the more we defend trauma. […]

What is your family narrative? 23 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I recently learned that in 1922 my great-grandfather was jailed for six months for tax fraud, in relation to the hotel where he was the publican. This might seem like a small and perhaps a little […]

Generational trauma is a frozen fight-or-flight response 3 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments We tend to think of trauma as a psychological issue. Yet it’s an issue that’s very much rooted in the body. Research has shown a connection to chemicals produced by the fight-or-flight […]

India’s caste system is a multi-layered trauma 18 June 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Philonise Floyd, during the trial for the murder of his brother George, stated that “the world is traumatized”. I’d like to back up that assertion and expand the perception of trauma by recognising India’s […]

Philonise Floyd – “The world is traumatized” is literally true 12 June 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , News , No Comments 13 April 2021 was the 12th day of Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd. Amid late winter snow flurries, his brother Philonise Floyd spoke outside the […]

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 […]

Trauma is pain frozen in time 21 May 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments The pain, the trauma, had been frozen inside me for half a century. Yet I had no idea. I knew that my family was splintered and disconnected. I had a lifelong sense of abandonment, a […]