The mother wound – why we confuse nurturing and sex 9 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments During the long and painful journey to heal the mother wound, we often encounter issues around nurturing and sex. Whether we’re single or in a committed relationship, our needs feel unmet. […]
How to allow nurturing into the mother wound 8 January 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , Mother wound , No Comments How do we allow nurturing into the mother wound? This is humanity’s 64-million-dollar question. Allowing nurturing to activate our latent ability to genuinely nurture ourselves, our families, communities, creations—and […]
What is the father wound? 19 November 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , No Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about the mother wound, humanity’s single point of failure—the place where humanity broke ages ago and the only place we, as a species, can be healed to create a sustainable future. […]
The mother wound – nurturing tasks are classed as ‘menial’ 8 November 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In our woundedness, what we most need is genuine emotional nurturing. Yet, because of our woundedness, we classify those tasks that would actually nurture us—physical tasks that embody genuine nurturing—as menial, […]
How the mother wound breaks our sense of identity 10 June 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments In The Fall, Steve Taylor writes: “The main event in human history is a sudden, massive regression—a dramatic shift from harmony to chaos, from peace to war, from life-affirmation to gloom, or […]
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 […]
Our ‘inner child’ is the product of arrested development 11 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments The ‘inner child’ is a popular concept in pop-psychology to describe a wounded aspect of us, trapped like the child above in the fishbowl of adult life with no way to navigate that […]
How the mother wound externalises our values – and why this is critical 9 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments This is the most critical blog I’ve ever written. That’s why I’ve added the tag onto the title. I don’t want to shout or catastrophise, but […]
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 […]
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. […]