Measuring wellbeing – the Family Stability Index 16 February 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I’ve blogged a lot about unconscious shame, and also written a little about generational trauma. This is inherited trauma, like a superficially mild case of PTSD that comes from scandals and traumatic events in […]
Our toxic environment reflects our toxic consciousness 25 January 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments As I walked along a grass verge recently, a man approached, smoking a cigarette. He dropped the cigarette, crushed it with his heel and strode past exhaling smoke. He’d just polluted the environment. He had […]
Life drawing – seeing the body in another light 15 January 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , No Comments Late in 2018 I chose to challenge myself. I joined a public speaking club, did a 43-metre bungy jump, and contacted Life Drawing MK about modelling. Why life modelling? Two decades […]
The objectification of women happened at the dawn of patriarchy 9 December 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments There is a common belief that viewing porn conditions men to objectify women, turning them into emotionless sex objects. This is a fallacy. The objectification of women […]
5 Ways to explore your inner world 8 December 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments As we approach the time for making New Year’s resolutions, here’s an awkward question: are you exploring or avoiding the inner world of your psychology and sexuality? We’ve all heard the statistics on […]
Traumatisation of the feminine created patriarchy, not the other way round 30 November 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , History , Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments In a post a few months ago I posed the question, Does patriarchy traumatise the feminine? At the time, I was pretty certain that […]
Problems cannot exist without their solutions 28 November 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Ah, problems. We all have them. What distinguishes success from failure in life is the ability to solve them. To turn problems into solutions. Yet what if problems cannot exist without their own solutions? When […]
5 Tips for finding your life path 24 November 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments Find your life path. Four simple little words, yet among the hardest things we can do in our lives. I remember my last year at high school very well. While most of my […]
What is the mother wound? 8 November 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , 2 Comments Our society doesn’t have an accepted sense of some kind of mother wound that we all suffer from, individually or collectively. Yet one look at the world reveals a globe reeling from crisis to […]
All the solutions you seek are inside you 16 August 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments All the solutions you seek are inside you. It’s one of those pithy sayings floating around the Internet and popping up in annoying Facebook memes. A colleague used to call them “inconvenient.” They’re […]