We have no language for pre-verbal trauma 11 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , 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 […]
The Architect of Desire – generational trauma from the Gilded Age 9 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , History , 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 […]
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 […]
‘Here be dragons’ – healing generational trauma is a hero’s journey 2 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Remember those old maps with blank spaces around the edges marked ‘Here be dragons’? That’s where you’re headed—the blank spaces in your family history: the times, events and people that […]
The emotional cost of generational trauma 25 September 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments What is the impact of generational trauma? How do we count the emotional cost of generational trauma? This photograph from Sydney Sims says it all. We spend our lives trying to paste on a smile […]
7 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 […]
What is generational trauma? 26 October 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , 2 Comments Generational trauma is unresolved trauma and shame genetically inherited from your mother or father through epigenetic inheritance. It surfaces as disempowering feelings and behaviours that make no sense in the context of the life of the […]