Victims, victimizers and seeing porn at 10 16 May 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Pornography , No Comments In Hessa – my first experience of porn I wrote about seeing porn at 10 when I was exposed to a softcore sex comic in Switzerland. The comic was part of a series […]
Why does watching porn raise men’s energy levels? 15 May 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments Have you ever noticed—I aim this question at the afflicted amongst you—that watching porn raises your energy levels? Have you noticed that you could surf for porn all night, pinging from image to image, […]
Ancestral trauma #4 – Slave mentality 19 April 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Shame , No Comments In What is ancestral trauma? I describe the key psychological wounds that humanity suffered as a result of the drought, desertification and famine that gave rise to patriarchy. Here I want to focus on […]
How to surf the wave between conscious and unconscious behaviour 11 April 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments The great difficulty in personal development is that we shift from conscious to unconscious mental control without being aware of it. In How to develop your ‘inner observer’ I wrote […]
7 Steps to identify family skeletons 6 April 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments How do you identify family skeletons, i.e. generational trauma, in your family? Your family tree is the obvious place to start—as are the emotional symptoms you’re observing, in your life or […]
Unconscious fear + flashpoint = fighting over toilet paper 28 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On Sunday 8th March, as the first wave of fear over the coronavirus swept the globe and induced panic shopping, two women fought over diminishing supplies of toilet paper at a Sydney supermarket. […]
Mastering fear is like learning to walk – fall down, get up 25 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments You probably don’t need me to tell you that right now fear is on the rise. The fear of coronavirus, of food shortages, of economic failure… the fear […]
Living with ghosts – confronting generational trauma 16 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , Mother wound , No Comments The first time I encountered generational trauma* I had no idea what I had hit. I had no idea I was living with ghosts. Put simply, generational traumas are unresolved traumas […]
Coronavirus exposes South Korea’s sexual shame 11 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments One of the more curious effects of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak has been to highlight potential sexual indiscretions in South Korea. This conservative Asian nation is highly sensitive to perceived sexual impropriety, i.e. sexual shame. Official […]
Survival fears are crippling modern society 21 February 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On 19 February 2020 buses carrying 72 coronavirus evacuees were pelted with rocks in the village of Novi Sanzhary, Ukraine. Villagers clashed with riot police for several hours before the evacuees—none of whom had tested positive—reached […]