Trauma exists as a series of ripples 15 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Generational trauma , Mother wound , No Comments In mid-2018 I wrote a blog titled The 3 layers of trauma – ancestral, generational, current-life, in which I ascribed all trauma to one of these categories. Fast […]
Does your family tree have any broken branches? 14 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments At the 2021 Intergenerational Trauma Conference, Peter Levine referred to trauma as “a rupture in the fabric of connectivity.” The process of healing inherited trauma is a process of restoring connectivity. To do […]
Patriarchy demands that our relationships are stagnant 5 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , 2 Comments “I do.” There are few words we say in our lives that carry more importance than a commitment of marriage. Yet, caught in the feel-good swirl of confetti, popping champagne corks and flying garters, few […]
Keira Knightley – no more patriarchal sex scenes 4 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Patriarchy , 2 Comments British actress Keira Knightley, star of Misbehaviour, Atonement and Bend It Like Beckham, recently said she won’t participate in any more male-directed “horrible sex scenes where you’re all greased up […]
Evolution is active in all life at all times 23 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments In late 2020, Coronavirus mutated into more virulent versions in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. This discovery thrust the science of evolutionary biology into the news. It also provides a […]
The 4 layers of a porn image 18 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments “Pile on many more layers and I’ll be joining you there,” Pink Floyd lead singer Roger Waters sang in ‘Shine On, You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX’ which closed their 1975 album Wish You Were Here. […]
The mother wound leaves us feeling unprotected 13 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Mother wound , No Comments I’ve spent the whole of my life looking like the child in this evocative photograph from Jordan Whitt—feeling unprotected. Until recently, I never knew why. In The mother wound – “The dreadful […]
What isn’t expressed gets compressed 12 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , News , No Comments We’re all familiar with Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion, otherwise known as the Law of Action and Reaction: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. This law applies to emotional mechanics just […]
Humanity runs on a Patriarchal Operating System 18 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , 4 Comments For the past 6,000 years, ever since the dawn of patriarchy, humanity has been running on a specific psychological paradigm—the Patriarchal Operating System. What do I mean by ‘running’? I mean breathing, feeling, thinking, eating, […]
Mary Wollstonecraft statue reveals our unconscious shame 17 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments A recently unveiled statue of Mary Wollstonecraft has caused outrage by depicting the pioneering feminist writer naked. The statue depicts a nude woman emerging from an amorphous mound of organic matter. The BBC […]