The god of patriarchy is an effigy of the Bronze Age nomadic warrior 1 September 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Patriarchy , No Comments The Book of Genesis tells us that “God created man in his own image” (1:27). The historical and psychological reality is diametrically opposite: man created God in […]
The woodlot – using early sexual memories to heal trauma 19 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , No Comments I recently recovered an early sexual memory, from a woodlot in Switzerland aged 10 or so—around the same time as my first experience of porn. Recovery of this memory shows that I’m […]
The 1960s Sexual Revolution – breaking mass sexual repression 18 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Sexuality , No Comments My attention has recently been drawn to the 1960s Sexual Revolution, an event that has largely receded out of memory and is mostly remembered through the occasional popular song on the […]
Peeing in the bushes – the shame of bodily functions 17 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments People go walking in nature for different reasons: exercise, fresh air, views, to search for flora and fauna. Yet I find that whenever I go walking with several women, one subject inevitably […]
Childhood innocence – concealing the mother wound 11 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments I recently uncovered some trauma around the idea of childhood innocence. This surprised me, as I’d never really thought about the concept. I didn’t realise that by pressing into it I’d encounter […]
With our family history, only the truth will serve 4 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments On my journey to clearing generational trauma, there have been several quotes that’ve stuck with me. In something of a ‘duh’ moment, it’s only just struck me they all have a common […]
7 Mistakes to avoid with generational trauma 28 July 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I’ve written a lot about what to do to recognise and release generational trauma. What I haven’t written is what not to do. So, here goes—7 mistakes to avoid with generational trauma. 1. Generational […]
Derision, social media, and shaming for entertainment 13 July 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments The advent of social media has provided a new forum for a very ancient human practice—derision, or shaming for entertainment. In the opening scene of Albert Hitchcock’s classic spy caper, The 39 Steps, the hero, […]
Measuring shame – Wilhelm Reich’s 1930s oscillograph experiments 8 July 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , History , Sexuality , Shame , No Comments Unconscious shame may seem like a vague, subjective concept. In the 1930s, Wilhelm Reich conducted experiments using an oscillograph showing that not only was shame—particularly sexual shame—measurable, but […]
Feeling unwanted – the dark heart of the mother wound 22 June 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments I have written extensively about the mother wound. It’s humanity’s single point of failure, the short-circuit in our collective psyche that makes us all feel to some extent like an unwanted […]