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 , 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 feel unmet. […]
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 […]
6 Symptoms of the mother wound 20 February 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments At its core, the mother wound is a distortion or disconnection (depending on severity) from the source energy of life. This wound occurred on a global scale following climate change some 6,000 years ago that […]
Childhood innocence – concealing the mother wound 11 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments I recently uncovered some trauma around the idea of childhood innocence. This surprised me, as I’d never really thought about the concept. I didn’t realise that by pressing into it I’d encounter […]
Feeling unwanted – the dark heart of the mother wound 22 June 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments I have written extensively about the mother wound. It’s humanity’s single point of failure, the short-circuit in our collective psyche that makes us all feel to some extent like an unwanted […]