Self-abandonment – where ancestral and generational trauma converge 12 July 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels I seem to be one of the few trauma writers that distinguishes between ancestral and generational trauma. Some writers seem to be […]
Ancestral trauma #10 – identity warfare 3 July 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , No Comments Numbers 31 is one of the most disturbing passages in the Bible. The Israelites defeat the Midianites. Every adult male is killed, towns and encampments are burned, women and children taken captive. When Moses sees […]
Identity reclamation – the gift in every trauma release 2 July 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels I’ve recently been through an experience I can only describe as an ‘identity rewrite.’ As a result of some family secrets coming to light, a vague […]
Ancestral trauma #9 – Apathy and futility 2 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , No Comments Photo by Iva Rajović on Unsplash In Ancestral trauma #8 – Fear of famine, I describe how long-term drought in the Sahara, Middle East and Central Asia led to desertification and famine. Apathy and a sense of […]
Are you and your family running on empty? 11 May 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments When I was growing up in the 1970s, the songwriter who spoke most powerfully to my sense of abandonment, depersonalisation and disaffection was Jackson Browne. His 1977 live album Running on Empty, recorded […]
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 […]
Trauma release timeline – from past to present 10 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Releasing trauma is a confusing experience. We’re dealing with past and present simultaneously, and the two can be hard to differentiate as the trauma unravels. In this post I explain the basic dynamic […]
Puberty shames teens into emotional stagnation 10 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Shame , 2 Comments In Patriarchy demands that our relationships are stagnant, I describe how our current human paradigm only survives by locking us into relationships that promise satisfaction but are in fact emotionally and sexually sterile. To […]
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 […]
Pain is the roadmap for what needs healing 7 September 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments In the personal healing world, we talk about the ‘healing journey’. What does that mean? We’re on a journey to healing. Yes, obviously—but where’s it taking us? What’s the destination? At this point, […]