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 […]
The Sunderland Memorial – uniting a splintered family 12 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments The village of Praa Sands on the southern coast of Cornwall is a little-known beach resort where families come to play in the sand and surf or hang out at the beachside café. […]
How the mother wound breaks our sense of identity 10 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In The Fall, Steve Taylor writes: “The main event in human history is a sudden, massive regression—a dramatic shift from harmony to chaos, from peace to war, from life-affirmation to gloom, or […]
Denial – how we make shame unconscious 28 May 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments I have written ad nauseum about the unconscious shame that smothers our society. I haven’t written so much about the denial that makes and keeps it unconscious—precisely because I couldn’t see it clearly myself. So, […]
6 Symptoms of the mother wound 20 February 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments At its core, the mother wound is a distortion or disconnection (depending on severity) from the source energy of life. This wound occurred on a global scale following climate change some 6,000 years ago that […]
7 Symptoms of generational trauma 19 February 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , 2 Comments One of the difficulties in identifying generational trauma—or even believing that it’s real—is the wide array of symptoms that may present. Inherited traumas are instances of past emotional overwhelm, situations that one of your ancestors could […]
5 Mistakes to avoid when healing porn addiction 17 February 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments While researching Google keywords I stumbled on a list of ‘Five effective strategies to overcome porn addiction’. These strategies are mostly based on false, wish-fulfilment ideas about the mechanics of porn addiction. This led […]
3 Effects of left-brain hemispheric dominance 7 February 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments While effects of mental health in general and generational trauma in particular attract increasing attention, one piece of the wellness puzzle remains under-recognised—left-brain hemispheric dominance. I’d go as far as saying that hemispheric dominance is […]