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Unconscious fear + flashpoint = fighting over toilet paper 28 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On Sunday 8th March, as the first wave of fear over the coronavirus swept the globe and induced panic shopping, two women fought over diminishing supplies of toilet paper at a Sydney supermarket. […]
Unconscious shame is rooted in our survival fears 27 April 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Shame , No Comments I have written extensively on this site about unconscious shame in general and sexual shame in particular. In my Are YOU ashamed? toolkit I’ve listed some of the common effects of shame—such […]
Unconscious shame and the ‘full body massage’ 10 May 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments I have blogged repeatedly about society’s unconscious shame about emotions and sexuality, a shame that—as well as erupting in violently destructive ways—largely hides in plain sight. Our unconscious sense of ‘sex is dirty’ and ‘I’m […]
Shadow work – making the unconscious conscious 10 March 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Are you familiar with the term ‘shadow work’? It’s been around for a while. It seems to be gaining in prominence—perhaps because the need for shadow work is growing. Shadow work is a term that […]
Porn addiction is a cry for help from the unconscious 3 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments If you’re reading this, you may be looking for porn addiction help. Help comes with understanding. Let’s start by looking at the porn addiction cycle. You’re feeling down. The urge to look […]
What are shame-based issues? 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , No Comments Unconscious shame has given rise to a family of shame-based issues that all share a common denominator: the inability to discuss them. I’ve written about the origins of this shame in A brief history of shame. […]
What is unconscious shame? 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , No Comments We live in a society that’s historically been emotionally and sexually repressed. The psychological mechanism by which we repress our socially unacceptable emotional and sexual impulses is unconscious shame. Unconscious shame is a layer of invisible […]
Pioneers of unconscious shame 3 September 2013 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Shame , No Comments On this site I have written extensively about unconscious shame – an invisible sense of shamefulness that cripples us through low self worth, anxiety, and emotional and sexual dysfunction. The idea of some overarching disease that’s […]