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 […]
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 […]
What is the divinity-mortality split? 3 December 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments Michael Picucci, author of The Journey toward Complete Recovery, coined the term ‘sexual-spiritual split’ to identify “a deep psychic schism” endemic in human culture. I’d like to expand on Picucci’s vision by recognising another psychic […]
What is the father wound? 19 November 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , No Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about the mother wound, humanity’s single point of failure—the place where humanity broke ages ago and the only place we, as a species, can be healed to create a sustainable future. […]
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, […]
The missionary position is a trauma response 15 August 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , Patriarchy , Sexuality , No Comments In Sex in patriarchy – how the past shapes sex today I describe the ‘3 M’s’—married, monogamous, missionary (position)—as the bedrock of modern sexuality. At the time, I attributed the […]
Christianity’s ‘original sin’ is generational trauma 8 July 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments It’s that simple, folks. Christianity’s doctrine of ‘original sin’ is generational trauma; destructive patterns of behaviour inherited at birth (conception, actually) which originated at the Fall. The whole theology boils down to two simple equations: […]
Slavery, circumcision, and the male fear of nudity 24 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Sexuality , No Comments When working with shame—particularly sexual shame—we continually encounter manifestations of the fear of being seen naked. For men at least, this fear is linked to ancestral traumas around slavery and circumcision. The […]