The mother wound destroys our inner compass 27 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In What is the mother wound? and other blogs, I describe humanity’s single point of failure—collective arrested development of the mother-child bond (and the resulting psychic growth process) that leaves us in an emotionally […]
Beyond ancestral trauma lies ancestral rage 18 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments I have written extensively about ancestral trauma—the deep-seated, many-generations old traumas that we all carry a distant memory of from the dawn of patriarchy. I’ve also written about the inevitable consequences of clearing trauma—experiencing rage at […]
The mother wound creates a cycle of abandonment 17 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Just as there is a life cycle, an ascending cycle that nurtures, develops, and raises us to new heights, there is a contra-rotating cycle. A downward, descending, dead-end cycle: the cycle of abandonment. […]
Emotional Reverse Engineering 9 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’ve likened generational trauma to the white spaces on old maps marked ‘Here be dragons’. We suspect something’s out there but we’re not exactly sure what. My experience is that when you consciously understand a […]
That which brings you success is that which destroys you 4 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Many years ago, I was a jet-setting IT consultant. New Zealand, America, Hong Kong. I was billed out at $300/hour in the pre-Y2K mania. Hotels, rental cars, lavish meals. Success? Tick. […]
Tentacle Manga – Japan’s victim/victimizer dynamic in comics 3 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Patriarchy , Pornography , No Comments In May 2019 I published a blog titled The Alien inside us – the lower masculine victimizer. In it, I used Ridley Scott’s mandible and tentacle armed creature as a […]
The Han – Korea’s community trauma 28 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In his award-winning documentary Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain visited Koreatown in Los Angeles and spoke to several self-confessed ‘bad Koreans’ who had defied family expectations about their lifestyles. All of them referred to the han […]
Feeling your family’s past 21 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments Genealogy is big business. We all know that family member constantly immersed in online research or rushing off to visit old battlegrounds or musty parish records. Over the years, the facts pile up in […]
Stay in your lane 5 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments One of the pitfalls of a society characterised, as ours is, by emotional immaturity and irresponsibility, is a blurring of boundaries between ourselves and others. As we bring our unconscious to light, excavating programming that undermines us, […]
The language of generational trauma 4 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments If you set out upon the hero’s journey of uncovering generational trauma, one of the obstacles you will encounter is a partial, or even entirely missing, language around trauma. This missing language may be yours or […]