Steve Jobs – “You can’t connect the dots looking forward” 19 March 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , 1 Comment Apple guru Steve Jobs famously observed that “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Jobs stated this in his commencement speech […]

Trauma is inside us and we are inside trauma 26 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. This trauma is inside our minds, our psyche, our physical […]

What is racial trauma? 17 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , 2 Comments In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. I’ve broken down these sources into five key layers. In this article I’m […]

What is community trauma? 16 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. I’ve broken down these sources into five key layers. In this article I’m […]

Trauma exists as a series of ripples 15 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Generational trauma , Mother wound , No Comments In mid-2018 I wrote a blog titled The 3 layers of trauma – ancestral, generational, current-life, in which I ascribed all trauma to one of these categories. Fast […]

Does your family tree have any broken branches? 14 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments At the 2021 Intergenerational Trauma Conference, Peter Levine referred to trauma as “a rupture in the fabric of connectivity.” The process of healing inherited trauma is a process of restoring connectivity. To do […]

We have no language for pre-verbal trauma 11 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Generational trauma , No Comments I have long wondered why some people talk about their issues while others don’t. I’ve often mistaken ‘can’t talk’ for ‘don’t want to talk’. More recently I’ve started to explore the […]

The Architect of Desire – generational trauma from the Gilded Age 9 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , History , No Comments On the night of 25 June 1906, architect Stanford White was murdered at the rooftop restaurant of New York’s Madison Square Gardens. The subsequent trial revealed […]

Does generational trauma attract us to genealogy? 9 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments We like to think that reason rules our lives, that every choice we make is conscious. What about our choice of interests? When something interests us, is that a choice, is it random—or is […]

‘Here be dragons’ – healing generational trauma is a hero’s journey 2 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Remember those old maps with blank spaces around the edges marked ‘Here be dragons’? That’s where you’re headed—the blank spaces in your family history: the times, events and people that […]