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 […]
The Sunderland Memorial – uniting a splintered family 12 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , 3 Comments The village of Praa Sands on the southern coast of Cornwall is a little-known beach resort where families come to play in the sand and surf or hang out at the beachside café. […]
Are you carrying inherited resentment? 18 December 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , 2 Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about shame and generational trauma. In their deadly embrace a third entity, a poisoned and poisonous child, stealthily sulks: resentment. As we strip away the layers of shame and trauma […]
How to work with the geography of generational trauma 8 December 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’ve recently come to a new understanding of the importance of geography in resolving generational trauma. Trauma formation is inextricably linked with the place it occurred. I’m ashamed […]
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 […]
How to do a 360-degree generational trauma evaluation 18 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I was recently, and rather painfully, forced to revisit a trauma that I thought was done and dusted. I realised afterwards that I hadn’t viewed the trauma from the […]
Using a SIPOC diagram to attribute generational trauma 17 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’m a former industrial process analyst who, by necessity, turned my attention to analysing hidden human emotional processes in general, and generational trauma in particular. I love it when […]
How to use surrogate events to release trauma 21 April 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , 2 Comments When I started dealing with generational trauma, I didn’t notice the pattern at first. After a while, I noted a correlation between triggering buried trauma and geography. With greater […]
The mother wound creates a cycle of abandonment 17 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Just as there is a life cycle, an ascending cycle that nurtures, develops, and raises us to new heights, there is a contra-rotating cycle. A downward, descending, dead-end cycle: the cycle of abandonment. […]