abandonment
The Sunderland Memorial – uniting a splintered family 12 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments The village of Praa Sands on the southern coast of Cornwall is a little-known beach resort where families come to play in the sand and surf or hang out at the beachside café. […]
Are you carrying inherited resentment? 18 December 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about shame and generational trauma. In their deadly embrace a third entity, a poisoned and poisonous child, stealthily sulks: resentment. As we strip away the layers of shame and trauma […]
How to work with the geography of generational trauma 8 December 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’ve recently come to a new understanding of the importance of geography in resolving generational trauma. Trauma formation is inextricably linked with the place it occurred. I’m ashamed […]
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 […]
How to do a 360-degree generational trauma evaluation 18 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I was recently, and rather painfully, forced to revisit a trauma that I thought was done and dusted. I realised afterwards that I hadn’t viewed the trauma from the […]
Using a SIPOC diagram to attribute generational trauma 17 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments I’m a former industrial process analyst who, by necessity, turned my attention to analysing hidden human emotional processes in general, and generational trauma in particular. I love it when […]
How to use surrogate events to release trauma 21 April 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments When I started dealing with generational trauma, I didn’t notice the pattern at first. After a while, I noted a correlation between triggering buried trauma and geography. With greater […]
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. […]
BBC’s The Repair Shop – the trauma also needs repairing 1 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , No Comments In recent months I’ve been binge-watching the BBC’s long-running heirloom restoration show, The Repair Shop. “What’s in the box?” asks impresario Jay Blades as each new—well, old and badly […]
Not measuring up 29 May 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments I grew up in the shadow of World War 2, in the Channel Islands—the only part of the British Empire occupied by the Nazis. My mother’s family buried their valuables in a potato pot and evacuated to the […]