How Family Constellations Help Restore the Flow of Love – An Interview with Aileen Salmaggi

What if the emotions you’ve been carrying didn’t begin with you?

Most of us assume our fears, sadness, or repeating life patterns are entirely our own. But what if some of those feelings are connected to the stories, losses, and sacrifices of the generations who came before us? In this conversation, Aileen Salmaggi shares how her family’s journey from Cuba, her years as a school teacher, and an unexpected introduction to Family Constellations transformed the way she understands healing. What emerged was a profound realization that honoring our ancestors doesn’t mean carrying their pain.

Whether you’re familiar with Family Constellations or hearing about it for the first time, this conversation offers a compassionate and thought-provoking perspective on generational healing. Aileen invites us to look beyond blame, embrace greater understanding, and discover the freedom that comes from returning what was never ours to carry.

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I’d love to hear about your childhood. You grew up in an immigrant home, and I assume that played a significant role in how you were raised and how you came to see life. Tell us about that.

Aileen Salmaggi: I was born here—the stork dropped me off here—but the rest of my family was born in Cuba, having emigrated generations earlier from Spain. Growing up in an immigrant home had a huge impact on me.

How old were your parents when they came to the United States?

Aileen Salmaggi: They came in 1966, so they were probably in their early thirties. My brother was four when he came. There was a whole story around their attempt to leave Cuba.

How did they make the journey?

Aileen Salmaggi: I’m actually wearing my mom’s ring. When she was leaving Cuba, the guards would take everything. You could only leave with a suitcase and basically the clothes on your back, and they would confiscate jewelry.

The story is that my mom cried and cried because they were about to take away her engagement and wedding ring, but she was able to keep it. I wear it proudly because I know how much she and my family had to go through to come here.

They arrived in 1966, and you were born here. How did their experience of life influence your own childhood and the way you experienced life?

Aileen Salmaggi: My childhood was a lot of fun. I think something very important about any immigrant experience is community. A Cuban community had already begun forming here, and the people who had arrived before my parents welcomed them with open arms because they had nothing.

My parents first came through Miami and the Freedom Tower, which they called the Ellis Island of the South. But there was no work in Florida, so some people who later became my godparents said, “Come over here. There’s work in California.” So they came to California. If you’ve ever seen I Love Lucy and the candy factory scene, my parents worked at the Tootsie Roll factory as one of their jobs. I think they also started out making tents for the Vietnam War, so they had an interesting array of jobs.

I had the honor of growing up around a Cuban club here in Culver City, and there was another one around Burbank or Glendale. Wherever there’s a Porto’s, there are Cubans! Maintaining Cuban culture was very important to my parents—the music, the food, and, again, that sense of community.

I’ve been told that within many immigrant communities, there’s a way of staying happy—an underlying strength beneath the pain. I think the music of Cuba shows that, especially salsa and Celia Cruz, who was my mom’s idol. Her song “La Vida Es un Carnaval”—“Life Is a Carnival”—expressed something very important that my parents passed on to me.

I was forced to speak Spanish at home, which wasn’t easy because my brain thought more in English. Years later, I met with someone whose son had attended preschool with me. She asked, “Don’t you remember? They tried to separate you. They tried to stop you from speaking Spanish to each other.” I didn’t remember that at all.

There was this whole experience around language. Of course, being bilingual is very welcome now, but coming here at four years old, not knowing the language, and feeling misunderstood was traumatic for my brother. It’s no coincidence that I was eventually drawn to family constellation work and exploring generational experiences.

What about faith and spirituality? Was that part of your cultural experience as a child, or did it come later in life?

Aileen Salmaggi: My dad was Catholic, and my mom was Presbyterian, but my brother and I both attended Catholic school for twelve years. We had the uniforms, priests, nuns, confession, a little guilt—maybe a lot of guilt—and all of that.

I remember the nuns saying, “God sees and hears everything.” I think I had said the S-word in the schoolyard that day, and I thought, “Now, I’m going to hell because I said the S-word.” So there was a little bit of that.

Even though I’m no longer a practicing Catholic, it instilled in me this beautiful, childlike love of God, or of a higher power. I tap into that innocence a lot. That core has never left me.

Aileen’s family

As you grew into adulthood, when did you begin having experiences that raised your level of consciousness, mindfulness, or spirituality and reconnected you with those core elements of God, love, and spirit?

Aileen Salmaggi: I taught elementary school for thirty-two years. One year, I had a child—I almost said “son,” because that’s how close my students were to me—whose father came to see me with his husband during parent conferences. During the conference, he said, “You’re going to have a girl.”

I said, “Wait, what? What do you mean?” He was very tapped in and intuitive. Long story short, he became my angel on Earth and my spiritual compass.

He would talk to me about things that made me think, “Whoa”—his galactic family, his near-death experience, and so many other things. I would just listen, even though a lot of it was going over my head.

How many years ago was this?

Aileen Salmaggi: I first met him around 2011. We participated in a book club centered on Caroline Myss’s Entering the Castle, which changed my life. Then he asked, “Can I offer to do long-distance healing for you?”

He explained, “My friends and I do this. You don’t have to do anything. You just lie there, and we’ll all coordinate for a certain time.” I would say that was the first time I felt this magic—I don’t know how else to describe it—this connection. I started seeing visuals and movies in my mind.

So you were lying down at home while he and his friends were doing the healing. Were you connected by phone, or did you get off the phone before it began?

Aileen Salmaggi: I got off the phone. He said, “Okay, I’ll see you there,” and I thought, “Okay.” Then I had the most magical experience. I wondered, “Wait, is that me I’m seeing?” I was watching this whole movie play out.

That was the beginning. He later invited me to participate in healings for other people. I would connect with complete strangers and see or feel things, even though they were in other states or wherever they happened to be.

Afterward, we would compare notes. Although we sometimes saw different things, there was often—if not always—some kind of overlap. I think that was the beginning of my awareness of this gift I had to see these movies and connect with people, even complete strangers.

Did you begin sharing those stories and experiences with your family?

Aileen Salmaggi: I did, but I kept referring to myself as the crazy little sister or the crazy cousin. Eventually, I wanted to stop using the word crazy. It was almost like a strange form of protection: Let me call myself crazy before you do.

At first, they would say, “Okay, that’s weird. How do you see movies? Were you taking something at the time? How do movies just appear to you?” But then they started to open up, especially when I connected with people who had passed on.

I would say, “I just want to let you know that I received this message.” But I would tell the people who had passed, “It’s all well and good if I say that you miss them or that they need to keep living, but that’s not going to fly. I need something specific.”

I remember connecting with my cousin and asking, “All right, give me something. Give me something.” Then I heard or saw the word cheesecake. I thought, “Cheesecake?”

That’s something else I’ve learned. I used to question everything: “Why is Snow White coming into my mind right now?” or “Why cheesecake?” Eventually, I stopped questioning and simply allowed it. So I thought, “All right, cheesecake. Here we go.”

I messaged her husband and said, “I got this random word.” He replied, “Cheesecake was my wife’s favorite thing to bake.” Receiving those kinds of validations helped me trust what I was experiencing.

Tell me about your introduction to Family Constellations. What are Family Constellations, and how were they introduced to you?

Aileen Salmaggi: When I turned fifty, a college friend asked, “Do you want to go on a spiritual retreat?” I said, “I do! Wait—you want to go on a spiritual retreat?” We used to party together, so it was unexpected.

One of the practices offered during that weekend was a family constellation exercise. They introduced it very briefly because it’s difficult to explain; it’s something you really have to experience. Basically, your inner world, or inner map, is displayed outside of your body using people or objects as representatives.

Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist who developed the practice in the 1990s, called it the science of all the relationships that exist. We exist in relation to one another; we don’t exist in a vacuum.

During that exercise, the people leading the retreat—who eventually became my teachers—asked us to pair up. One person would represent the other person’s higher self. I was paired with a man, and we took turns doing the exercise for each other.

So the other person would represent your higher self?

Aileen Salmaggi: Yes. It was almost like looking into a mirror and seeing a higher version of yourself. We stood facing each other, and we were told, “There’s nothing you have to force, do, or act out. Just listen to your body and do whatever your body tells you to do.” We were only supposed to use movements, and then, if something came to us, whisper it to the other person at the end.

He put his hands on my shoulders, and then I turned around to face him. I remember feeling like a growing tree, so I moved my body to express that. I felt so expansive. At the same time, I was thinking, “I don’t know what I’m doing, but this is what’s coming to me.”

Then I received the word Pinocchio. I thought, “What the—okay.” I whispered “Pinocchio” in his ear. He looked at me, smiled, held my face, and said, “Thank you. That was my favorite childhood story growing up.”

With constellations, we don’t interpret what happens or talk about it. We let the experience land with the client or the other person because it’s really about them and the meaning they make from it. What I did didn’t make sense to me, but it made sense to him.

I don’t even remember what he did for me. I was so blown away by what I had done and by the fact that I had connected with this stranger and touched on something meaningful for him.

Going back to the definition of family constellations, we bring our family dynamics out into the world. The ways we relate, or related, to our parents and siblings influence how we relate to friends and coworkers. I didn’t realize I was bringing a mother-daughter dynamic into a relationship with a coworker until I started asking, “Why am I so triggered? Why am I getting upset over this or that?”

At its heart, this work is based on family and ancestors. For a while, I felt very depressed and cried all the time. I wondered, “Where is this coming from?” Often, what we’re carrying isn’t even ours.

With talk therapy or other therapies, you might explore why you’re depressed, but you may never consider that your depression could be connected to the unfelt grief of your grandmother or great-grandmother after she had to leave her country. You may be feeling and carrying her grief. We call that an entanglement. Out of love, you’re carrying something for an ancestor without even knowing it.

Constellations allow you to let go of that. You honor the gift, the pain, and what your ancestors went through. It gives you an incredible amount of compassion for your family and a deeper understanding of their experiences.

At the same time, they don’t want you to hold their pain or continue the cycle. They want you to live your life. In Family Constellations, there are healing sentences that a facilitator receives intuitively and also learns to recognize through training. The facilitator offers them to the client to see if they resonate, because they don’t always land.

It’s a little bit like saying, “Let’s try this.” Often, we say to an ancestor, “Please bless me as I move forward in my life.” There’s something so powerful about that.

You go into detail about Family Constellations in your chapter in The Awakened Healer, “The Ancestral Alarm: Returning What Was Never Yours to Carry.” You write, “Family Constellations are ultimately about the heart rather than the mind. Healing requires us to step out of our mental stories and drop into the wisdom of the body.” Help us understand that. So much of talk therapy focuses on what we’re thinking and processing verbally. What is the wisdom of the body, and how does it emerge through Family Constellations?

Aileen Salmaggi: First of all, because you’re displaying that inner map outside of yourself, you can get out of your head and stop analyzing.

Family Constellations are new to me, so when you say the map is displayed outside of you, help the viewer or listener understand what is physically happening.

Aileen Salmaggi: In my chapter, I guide the reader through an exercise. For example, I’ve had a difficult time with anger and with people being angry around me. There have been many layers to that anger. My intention might be to become more comfortable with anger or to feel freer around it.

I would take three pieces of paper and write me on one, block on another, and freedom on the third. When you step onto those papers, you begin to acknowledge what you’re feeling right now. This is your present inner dynamic in relation to anger, and it may not feel good.

If you were working with a client—and let’s use you as the client in this example—we would have three sheets of paper: one labeled “me,” one labeled “block,” and one labeled “freedom.” Would you place them on the floor and stand on them, or put them on the table in front of you?

Aileen Salmaggi: You can do what’s called a tabletop constellation and place them on a table, but I like to stand on them.

We have “me,” “block,” and “freedom” on the floor. Before the client steps onto “me,” how should the papers be arranged?

Aileen Salmaggi: Sometimes people wonder, “Where do I place them?” Without looking, you simply place them according to what your body tells you. You don’t decide with your head; you allow the papers to land naturally.

Then you might take a moment to observe their placement. Freedom might be very far away, while block might be very close to you.

I actually did this exercise again before our conversation. When I stood on me, I was also aware of everything around me in the room because the environment can take on meaning and speak to me as well. I was facing my television, which was very dark. I thought, “Ooh, I don’t want to be seen. This feels very uncomfortable.”

Then I stepped off me and onto block. When you stand on block, you might receive a memory. I was exploring my feelings about speaking in front of people, and a memory came to me of being in kindergarten and having tape put over my mouth.

I received the words, “But that’s in the past. It’s in your past. It’s not from another lifetime, and it doesn’t belong to anybody else. This is yours, but it is in the past.”

Then I stepped onto freedom. As soon as I did, I noticed my body standing taller. I thought, “This feels good.” You can’t really explain it, but you receive these feelings. That was the first round of the exercise.

When you first step onto “me,” are you fully acknowledging whatever challenges you’re facing in that moment?

Aileen Salmaggi: Yes, you’re very much in the present. There’s no pretending. You’re acknowledging the honest truth of how you feel right now.

I can imagine that when some people step onto “me,” they might begin externalizing their experience or blaming others: “I can’t believe this person did that,” or “The reason I’m in this situation is because of what happened.” Does that happen, or do you try to draw them back to their own experience?

Aileen Salmaggi: That’s a really good question. I wouldn’t necessarily call it blame, but sometimes the block morphs into a person. It might represent an event, like the one I described, or it could become your mother or someone else in your family. You begin to see why you might feel blocked.

During that acknowledgment phase, I’ve seen people say, “I’m angry at you.” I’ve done that myself with my mom, who passed away in 1999. I was never able to voice some of my anger toward her—that teenage anger and rebelliousness. I never had the chance to express it. Within the constellation, there is permission to say, “I’m angry, and you did this or that.”

I’ve also been on the receiving end of that as a representative in someone else’s constellation. The work is usually done blind, and I have felt the guilt of whoever I was representing. The representative might say, “I’m sorry.”

There is accountability in constellations. Everyone has to be accountable for their actions. We may understand why they did certain things, but there is still accountability. When you step into another person’s shoes, you might hear them say, “Yes, I did that. That is not yours; it is all mine. You can leave it with me.”

Then, when you step back onto me and hear that, there’s a sense of finally being seen and heard: “I’m not making up these feelings.” You may also receive a small glimpse of what that person went through that led them to act that way. It doesn’t excuse their actions, but it allows you to have some compassion.

Another important goal of Family Constellations is to restore the flow of love and harmony within the family dynamic while leaving space for each person. One of the Orders of Love—and this is a significant one—is belonging. Everyone has a place in the family, whether they are the perpetrator or the victim.

When someone is excluded, a person in a future generation may take on similar behavioral patterns or even live a similar life so that the excluded person will be remembered. It’s as though they’re constantly saying, “Remember me. I want to be seen within the family system.”

Once you give that person a place—not excusing anything they did, but making a little space in your heart to acknowledge that they are part of the family—the dynamic can begin to shift. Even through all the difficult things we experience, there are lessons and resources available to us.

You mentioned the Orders of Love, which are part of the Family Constellations framework. I understand that there are three. Would you walk us through each one and explain how they fit into the overall framework?

Aileen Salmaggi: The first is belonging, which is huge. Think of it in terms of survival at its most primitive: If you don’t belong—if you’re not part of the tribe—you’re going to get eaten.

Fitting in is incredibly important. Going back to my family’s immigrant experience, so many of us feel as though we don’t fit in. We don’t belong to this country, but we don’t belong to that country either. It can even happen within a group of friends: “I didn’t get invited. What happened?” That fear of missing out really comes down to being loved or feeling loved. Within a family system, everyone belongs, no matter what.

The second order is hierarchy, which means that everyone has a place. It’s not that one person is more important than another, but being in your proper place within the system is very important. When someone is out of place, it can throw off the entire system.

For example, I did an exercise using papers to map my family hierarchy. Whoever entered the family first comes first, so I placed my dad, then my mom, then my older brother, and then myself. But suddenly, I thought, “Wait a second. There was a baby born before me.” I’m one of three children, not one of two.

That realization had many implications I hadn’t previously recognized, including survivor’s guilt. As children, we also step out of our place when we try to parent our parents or an older sibling. That can throw us off balance within the family system.

The third order is balance, which relates to giving and taking. In adult relationships, there should be a fairly even exchange. When it’s unbalanced, the person who gives more may become resentful and think, “Wait a second. I’ve given all of this, and you’ve only taken.”

It’s different between parents and children because parents tend to give more—or at least give what they can—and children receive. That may shift as the parents grow older, but the balance of giving and taking is still important. All three Orders of Love overlap, but they ultimately stem from belonging.

Are these three Orders of Love foundational principles that guide the family constellation process? And is the ultimate goal to restore the flow of love within the relational dynamic, even if your parents are no longer alive? Is that flow still present among those who remain?

Aileen Salmaggi: Yes. I actually stopped wearing my mom’s ring for a while because, during one of my constellations, I heard her say, “Stop carrying my pain.”

I put the ring away because I realized there was some healing I needed to do with her. After doing some of that work, I began wearing it again. There can definitely be healing while family members are still here and even after they’re on another plane. You’re still connected, for sure.

What’s fascinating about Family Constellations is that this isn’t simply psychology. There’s a sense of spiritual interconnectedness—a connection at the level of consciousness. It’s not just DNA being passed down, but something else moving from generation to generation. I may be getting this wrong, but what I’m hearing is that we’re all connected forever. Is that part of the understanding?

Aileen Salmaggi: That is my understanding. I think about quantum physics: Energy can’t be created or destroyed.

One of the things I absolutely love about this work is that when you represent someone in another person’s constellation—or even sit and watch—there’s always some kind of overlap. A family dynamic within you may be triggered or activated while a session is being done for someone else, even if you don’t immediately understand it.

One of my teachers, who is also a facilitator, once had a constellation done for herself. When it was over, she said, “That was really nice, and I hope it helped the people who watched it because I got nothing out of it.” But over the following weeks, things began happening. She started noticing synchronicities and receiving insights.

That’s something that happens with this work. I traveled to Australia to complete my training and had a very significant constellation done for me there. That was two years ago, and I only recently felt as though it had finally reached completion.

With some constellations, the insights and impact are immediate. Others unfold slowly, as if you’re receiving one piece of a puzzle at a time. One layer is revealed, and you think, “Okay, I didn’t really get to express my anger.” Then another layer appears: “Wait, I’m uncomfortable around other people who are angry. What is that about?”

That’s why I used freedom in the exercise for the reader. This work frees you to take the next step in life and become the person you were always meant to be. Your ancestors are on the sidelines rooting for you: “Yay! You can do it!”

I know we all have different relationships with our parents and families, but if nothing else, you can be grateful that they gave you life. You’re here.

You talk about moving into a second and then a third round of the exercise. We’ve discussed round one, but I want to make sure I understand it correctly. “Me” represents my current experience, “freedom” represents what I want to experience, and “block” represents whatever is preventing me from reaching it. Is that correct? What happens in round two?

Aileen Salmaggi: Round two is what we call the unentangling. This is where you begin to feel a shift. Even moving from one paper to another creates a change within you. Then, when you physically move one of the papers, you realize, “Whoa, my initial map just changed.”

You may not have realized that all of this was happening inside you, but you are beginning to receive insights. It’s difficult to say exactly what will happen because each experience is different. But you’ve completed an entire round of acknowledging, “This is how things are now.” After stepping onto freedom and feeling what it’s like, you return to me and ask, “Do I feel any different?”

During my second round, I thought, “I don’t like standing in front of the dark television. I want to stand in front of the mirror.” So I moved the me paper. As soon as I did, I thought, “Ooh, that already feels good.”

When I moved to block, I received the same message: “This is in your past. Do you still want me in the position where you placed me, or do you want to move me farther away?” I thought, “Yes, I want to move it farther away.”

When I returned to freedom, it felt even better and more expansive. Then I received the words, “You can do this.” It’s as though you become your own coach and the wisdom begins emerging from within you.

You’re in the quiet space of your heart rather than the noisy world of everything your teachers and parents told you that you were supposed to do. It’s simply you and your connection to what we call the knowing field. Your soul—your essence—is speaking, and you can hear it saying, “Yes, you can do this.” That second round is when the shifting begins.

What is your role as the facilitator? You currently offer these sessions online, but what are you saying or asking throughout the process? If you’re not interpreting what emerges, how do you guide the client?

Aileen Salmaggi: I’m definitely more of a guide on the side. I begin with a short interview and ask the person what they want to explore and what issue they’re experiencing. I listen and begin forming theories or hypotheses in my mind.

With some people, I create something called a genogram, which is like a family tree. We note patterns on both sides of the family—related to health, relationships, or other experiences—and may discover that someone was excluded. As the facilitator, I’m looking for something that might be missing, unseen, or in need of acknowledgment.

But I don’t always go that deeply into the person’s history. I recently worked with someone who said, “I had an interesting dream.” I listened to her speak for only a few minutes because sometimes I don’t want to become too wrapped up in the story. I want to allow the field to speak.

For her session, I simply used me and the dream, and things evolved from there. I observe the field and the movements, and sometimes the process becomes stuck. I’ll ask, “How do you feel?” and the person says, “Nothing.” I’ll ask, “Do you want to move?” and they say, “No.” Then they move to the next paper, and the same thing happens.

At that point, I recognize that something may be missing, so I bring in another element without initially naming it. Then I ask, “How do you feel now that this other element is present?” The person often feels something different because whatever was unseen is now being seen. That element may evolve into a person, an event, a country, or many other things.

I speak very little. I remain connected to the client, provide a safe space, and stay completely neutral. That’s something we were taught as facilitators, and it’s why doing our own work is so important.

We’re still human and evolving, but we need to be in the best possible relationship with our own family dynamics. Then, when we hear about another person’s experiences, we may recognize that we’ve gone through something similar and can listen without judgment.

I remain very open because there is no right or wrong. There simply is. Everyone belongs within the system, whether that person is the victim or the perpetrator. Across generations, people have done things out of survival. Ultimately—and I know this can be difficult to understand—things often arise from love.

In the end, your ancestors want the best for you.

How long are these sessions? Is it usually a single session or a multi-session process?

Aileen Salmaggi: A session can be very quick—sometimes only twenty minutes—but it can also go very deep. If someone wants to create a genogram or explore their family tree, that might take an hour. But that exercise alone can lead to a realization like, “Whoa, I didn’t know this was happening on both sides of my family, and I’m doing the same thing.”

A session could last half an hour, an hour, or an hour and a half. It really depends. I don’t like to rush the process. I prefer to remain present with it and stay in the field.

These sessions also continue unfolding over time. I had one done in November and then another a few weeks ago. They go very deep, but they do so in such a gentle way.

You asked earlier whether people can get caught up in blame. Some difficult emotions do arise, but they’re felt and allowed, and then they pass. When I first began doing this work, I wondered, “Can I hold this?” But I can, because I’ve witnessed what happens when people allow themselves to feel what is present.

I don’t know whether it’s our culture, but we’re often so quick to try to make someone feel better. We want to fix the situation or smooth it over. But if the emotion is allowed to pass and is acknowledged, there’s room for movement and change.

People might be immersed in an emotion for a couple of minutes. Then it passes. That’s when the shift can happen.

You also offer energy medicine sessions. Many years ago, you experienced a session that transformed your life, and now you’re offering this work to others. Is that right?

Aileen Salmaggi: Yes. During COVID, like so many of us, I experienced many breakdowns and breakthroughs. I discovered shamanic practices, including shamanic drumming and journeying, and recently took a course that included soul retrieval.

I fell in love with doing soul retrievals because the process reminds me of Family Constellations. It’s a little different because I journey on behalf of the person. With their permission, I visit certain chambers.

One is the Chamber of the Original Wound. Sometimes I’m allowed to see the wound, and sometimes I’m not. It isn’t a place where we’re going to remain; seeing it might be helpful, or it might not.

Then there’s a chamber containing the part of you that wants to come back. With soul retrieval, I think many of us have a little part of ourselves that became lost as a form of protection. That part had to go somewhere and hide. I visit the chamber where that little part—or some other part of you—is waiting to return.

Next, I go to the Chamber of Gifts, where I may see a gift such as a ring, rock, or feather. I also ask whether a power animal wants to return. After completing the journey, I come back and present everything I received to the person.

Most importantly, I receive the original contract that the person made, usually for survival or protection. The goal is to rewrite that contract, which we do at the end of the session.

Just as we use objects to represent different elements in Family Constellations, I ask the person to go on a scavenger hunt and find something to represent each thing I brought back. If it’s your sassy seven-year-old self, find something to represent her. If it’s a ring, find something to represent the ring. If your power animal is a lion, find something that can represent the lion.

Then we move through a series of questions and answers. You step into each element, just as you would in a family constellation. You enter an almost trance-like state—definitely a heart space rather than a headspace—and all this wisdom emerges from within you.

The insights people share are amazing. Sometimes they hear themselves say something and ask, “Whoa, where did that come from?” It came from you. I love it.

Where can people follow you online and reach out to book a session?

Aileen Salmaggi: I’m on Instagram at @tappingintoyourgifts, and my website is TappingIntoYourGifts.com.

We also encourage people to pick up The Awakened Healer to learn more about the process we’ve discussed. Your chapter, “The Ancestral Alarm: Returning What Was Never Yours to Carry,” will give readers a taste of your work. Aileen, thank you for sharing your story and wisdom. It has been an honor to hear your powerful story.

Aileen Salmaggi: Thank you so much.