Health, Happiness, & Family Constellations
A Groundbreaking Approach to Healing Through the Wisdom of the Family Soul
A Missing Link in Healing Chronic Suffering
What if much of your emotional or physical suffering isn’t yours alone?
In this profound and practical book, Michael Reddy reveals how many persistent struggles—no matter their diagnosis—are not anchored in the individual. Instead, they often arise from deep, unconscious bonds with those we have loved. We suffer with and for our families, bound by hidden loyalties that continue long after the original events are forgotten.
Health, Happiness, and Family Constellations introduces a powerful way to uncover and release these inherited burdens through a modality called Family Constellations. With moving personal stories, clear explanations, and a trauma-informed lens, Michael guides readers through the deeper patterns that keep us stuck—and how healing becomes possible when we understand the collective “family soul.”
“A family constellation is a way of revealing the hidden dynamics of your family soul
—the energetic field that links you to your biological ancestors.”
What You’ll Discover
Through this book, you'll come to understand how chronic suffering—whether emotional or physical—is often tied to unconscious family dynamics, not just individual experience. You’ll learn how Family Constellations reveal hidden loyalties to unresolved family trauma and how these patterns may be influencing your life. As the pages unfold, so does a new understanding of the “family soul”—a collective field that distributes emotional burdens for the sake of survival, but which can block health and fulfillment when left unexamined. Along the way, you’ll also explore practical tools like altar-based constellations, and discover how science, spirit, and systemic healing intersect.
Is This Book for You?
If you’ve struggled with persistent health or emotional challenges that haven’t responded to traditional treatment, this book offers a refreshing and empowering new lens. It’s also for therapists, energy workers, and healing practitioners who want to expand their understanding of transgenerational trauma. Whether you’re new to constellation work or deeply immersed in your own healing journey, this book meets you with insight, clarity, and compassion.
“The healing of deep emotional wounds often involves discovering and honoring the suffering
that runs beneath them—suffering that may not be ours.”
Ready to Heal Beyond the Personal?
Praise for Health, Happiness, and Family Constellations
Reddy brings a scientist's mind and a shaman's heart to this book. In clear language, supported by science and wisdom traditions, he explains something very basic: what gives us life and our first appreciation of love is a tightly knit group experience known as the family. Regardless of how our parents treated us, we remain faithful in hidden ways to the gifts and deficits of our biological lineage.
—Dan Booth Cohen
President, Systemic Constellations Conference and Education
Author of I Carry Your Heart in my Heart--Family Constellations in Prison
Health, Happiness, and Family Constellations is a rich addition to this growing field, as well as a supportive companion for anyone making their journey through life. For facilitators of the work, it brings expanded languaging of the basic concepts, including the family soul and the cross-generational impact of trauma. For others, Michael provides a detailed container for creating your own constellation through the construction of an ancestral altar. By revealing the personal story of the impact of his father and fighter pilot uncle on his own life, Michael invites you to discover privately or with trained help where your own systemic vulnerabilities lie. The pace of the book is gentle, and the cautions are prudent. It is a wonderful contribution.
—Francesca Mason Boring
Author of Connecting to Our Ancestral Past,
Notes from the Indigenous Field, and Feather Medicine
"Family Constellations are among the most powerful tools I've come across in 25 years of helping people change. Until Health, Happiness, and Family Constellations, there hasn't been a book I felt comfortable recommending to chose wanting a down-to-earth and easy to implement understanding of it. Michael Reddy has written it-the book I've been hoping for. Highly recommended!"
-Paul Zelizer, Founder, Success for Spiritual Entrepreneurs
"Using stories of his own harrowing journey back to vitality to illustrate, Michael Reddy, truly demonstrates the magic of Family Constellations. The friendly, personal narrative of Health, Happiness, and Family Constellations will introduce you to the science of trauma healing and show you how co do something very important: you can use chis method yourself to turn long standing painful family patterns into inner peace and vitality."
-Jane Peterson, Ph.D., Director, Human Systems Institute
Michael Reddy is emerging as one of the most articulate representatives in the US of a still relatively little known methodology called Family Constellations. As this work and its amazing success spreads almost like the rays of the sun throughout the world, our nation has been reluctant to embrace it. Michael has made it his mission to change that by applying his vast knowledge as a scholar, researcher, healer and teacher. His com-passion, in addition to combining heart and mind, makes this book acces-sible and understandable to broader audiences. Health, Happiness, and Family Constellations will change your perception about health and heal-ing—and it may change your life.
—Elmar Dornberger, Principle, Hemisphere Consulting
“What we carry for our families, we carry in love. But what heals is the love that allows us to let it go.”
Michael Reddy