Mother and child non-communication – the original pre-verbal trauma 15 April 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In We have no language for pre-verbal trauma, I wrote how difficult it is to articulate the experience of trauma when it occurred before we developed the capacity for language. The acquisition […]
The mother wound – cities are just wealthy refugee camps 24 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Cities. Home to millions. Situated at the crossroads of the world’s trade routes and natural harbours. Centres of learning and technology. Glittering jewels of human achievement. The pinnacle of civilization. Or […]
We’ve rejected the dark side of the life cycle, and that is what ails us 5 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments When I was young, living in southern Switzerland, we used to make long holiday drives through the Italian countryside. The smell of manure was […]
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 […]
The mother wound leaves us feeling unprotected 13 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Mother wound , No Comments I’ve spent the whole of my life looking like the child in this evocative photograph from Jordan Whitt—feeling unprotected. Until recently, I never knew why. In The mother wound – “The dreadful […]
The mother wound = lack of emotional nurturing 4 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments In What is the mother wound? I describe the way that the wound at the core of humanity causes six key separations (or fragmentations). Of these, however, there is only one […]
The ‘hole’ behind humanity’s unsustainable consumption 2 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments I’ve been circling the ‘hole’ for a while now. It’s the black hole behind humanity’s unsustainable urge for acquisition or consumption. Unsustainable consumption Acquisition or consumption of what? Well, pretty much anything and […]
Edward Carpenter and Covid-19 – civilization is the disease 2 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , History , Mother wound , No Comments In 1899, Edward Carpenter wrote a book called Civilization: its cause and cure, in which he argued that civilization is a disease no society has ever survived. Civilization […]
The mother wound – First In, Last Out 1 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In the world of warehousing in which I once worked, there are various stock rotation policies. One is called FIFO—First In, First Out. The oldest stock is sold first. Another is called LIFO—Last […]
The mother wound causes a fear of mothering 1 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In What is the mother wound? I describe the psychological wound at the heart of humanity, an inability to nurture healthily that I term ‘the mother wound’. This wound has many ramifications, one […]