Depravity – how humanity vents the mother wound 3 October 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments “If it wasn’t for bad, you’d be good,” Elton John sings on the opening track of The Union, his alt-country collaboration with Leon Russell. What’s that got to do with depravity? And why […]
The mother wound constellation 25 September 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Do you recognise this constellation of wounded beliefs and behaviours, in your life? Some of these elements or terms may not be familiar, but the overall pattern may be. It’s a toxic web of deeply embedded self-reinforcing […]
Porn addiction does not exist in isolation 13 August 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Pornography , No Comments Ever since the 1970s Japanese electronics revolution swamped the world with easily made, easily distributed and easily consumed porn, we’ve been treating porn addiction as if it exists in isolation. It’s easy […]
Isolation – the invisible prison of shame 6 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Shame , No Comments Isolation. This single word has been staring at me from a yellow Post-it note I scribbled during a webinar a couple of weeks ago. I can no longer remember why I wrote […]
Healing the mother wound – from transactional to relational living 20 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments One of the most damaging aspects of the mother wound is that it changes our way of interacting with others from relational to transactional. Instead of our interactions being led by […]
The mother wound happened through depersonalisation 11 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In What is the mother wound? I describe the failure of genuine emotional nurturing that created humanity’s blindly rapacious, self-destructive psychological paradigm—what we call ‘normal’ but I call the Patriarchal Operating System. The mechanism that […]
The mother wound – why we confuse nurturing and sex 9 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Sexuality , No Comments During the long and painful journey to heal the mother wound, we often encounter issues around nurturing and sex. Whether we’re single or in a committed relationship, our needs […]
How to allow nurturing into the mother wound 8 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , Mother wound , No Comments How do we allow nurturing into the mother wound? This is humanity’s 64-million-dollar question. Allowing nurturing to activate our latent ability to genuinely nurture ourselves, our families, communities, creations—and […]
The mother wound – nurturing tasks are classed as ‘menial’ 8 November 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In our woundedness, what we most need is genuine emotional nurturing. Yet, because of our woundedness, we classify those tasks that would actually nurture us—physical tasks that embody genuine nurturing—as menial, […]
How the mother wound breaks our sense of identity 10 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In The Fall, Steve Taylor writes: “The main event in human history is a sudden, massive regression—a dramatic shift from harmony to chaos, from peace to war, from life-affirmation to gloom, or […]