The sexual radicalisation of Lawrence of Arabia 9 March 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Radicalisation , No Comments I recently wrote about the influence of unconscious shame upon the personality of perhaps the single most memorable individual to emerge from World War I, T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of […]
5 Signs of a triggered person 20 February 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments Have you encountered any road rage lately? What about supermarket rage—when you accidentally collide with someone else’s trolley and they go off the deep end? Or office rage—a colleague letting you know in emotionally […]
Our lives are constant feedback loops 19 February 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment What is the meaning of life? Ah, the ultimate question. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams gave the answer as 42. He just didn’t say what the exact question was. In Buffalo […]
Lawrence of Arabia – a shame-driven hero? 18 February 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Shame , No Comments Shifting Sands, an exhibition at the British Civil War Centre in Newark, examines the perennially fascinating story of T. E. Lawrence—a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia—from multiple perspectives: historical, archaeological and personal. Pursuing clues in […]
Hostiles – no peace with patriarchy 29 December 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Patriarchy , No Comments The advertising hoardings of the London Underground are currently filled with posters for a new film, Hostiles. Scheduled for release in January 2018, Hostiles is described as “a landmark cinematic experience” that “might well […]
7 Steps to clear emotional blocks 22 December 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments The healing journey teaches us to pay attention to what’s happening in our lives. If the same situation—particularly the same emotional situation—keeps reappearing in your life, it’s a strong indicator that you’ve got a […]
The mechanics of emotional pain 9 December 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We all suffer from emotional pain. Whether it’s the trauma of separation, the grief of someone close to us dying or the acute pain of a miscarriage, we’ve all been there, we don’t want a T-shirt […]
Do what you say, say what you do 3 December 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments One of the simplest ways to improve the quality of your life is to adopt a policy of “Do what you say, say what you do.” This is sometimes known even more pithily […]
This toxic society – U.S. self-injury rate triples 28 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that between 2009 and 2015, rates of self-injury among girls aged 10-14 years skyrocketed from 110 per 100,000 Emergency […]
What you most desire lies beyond what you most fear 20 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We all know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. What is less widely known is that the healing journey is paved with pithy axioms. Some of them […]