Prince Harry reveals generational trauma in the Royal Family 14 May 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , News , No Comments In an interview for the Armchair Expert podcast, Prince Harry has revealed the generational trauma at the heart of Britain’s Royal Family. Speaking to actor Dax Shepard, Harry spoke of […]
None of our emotional wounds are random 5 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments When we survey the seething maelstrom of human behaviour, it’s hard to see it as anything other than random. Even if we restrict ourselves to our own life and those closest […]
Steve Jobs – “You can’t connect the dots looking forward” 19 March 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Apple guru Steve Jobs famously observed that “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Jobs stated this in his commencement speech at Stanford University […]
Trauma is inside us and we are inside trauma 26 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. This trauma is inside our minds, our psyche, our physical […]
What is racial trauma? 17 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No 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 , No 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 […]
Trauma exists as a series of ripples 15 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In mid-2018 I wrote a blog titled The 3 layers of trauma – ancestral, generational, current-life, in which I ascribed all trauma to one of these categories. Fast forward 18 months and the 2021 […]
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 […]
We have no language for pre-verbal trauma 11 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I have long wondered why some people talk about their issues while others don’t. I’ve often mistaken ‘can’t talk’ for ‘don’t want to talk’. More recently I’ve started to explore the realm of pre-verbal […]
The Architect of Desire – generational trauma from the Gilded Age 9 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , No Comments On the night of 25 June 1906, architect Stanford White was murdered at the rooftop restaurant of New York’s Madison Square Gardens. The subsequent trial revealed a double […]