: About Me

Author of the classic New York Times Bestseller, Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections, Susan Chernak McElroy's writings are published in more than twenty languages worldwide. She is a nationally recognized, passionate, and original voice on the subject of our emotional, biological, and sacred relationships with animals and wild nature.

A long term-survivor of advanced cancer, She speaks from a rich body of lived experience, reminding us that our evolutionary journey toward becoming more fully human beings has included thousands of years of intimate connection with animals and the living Earth.

BOOKS
Why Buffalo Dance: Animal and Wilderness Meditations for the Seasons (NewWorld Library, Fall,2006)
All My Relations: Living With Animals as Teachers and Healers (NewWorld Library, Fall, 2004)
Heart in the Wild: A Journey of Self Discovery with the Animals of the Wilderness (Ballantine
Books, 2002)
Animals as Guides for the Soul: Stories of Life Changing Encounters (Ballantine Books, 1998)
Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections (Ballantine Books, 1997)

ANTHOLOGIES
Kinship with the Animals, edited by Michael Tobias and Kate Solisti-Mattelon (Beyond Words
Publishing, 1998)
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, edited by Linda Hogan, Deena
Metzger, and Brenda Peterson (Ballantine Books, (1998)
Wounded Healers, edited by Rachel Naomi Remen (1991)

TAPES
Cancer as a Turning Point: Volume II (Sounds True Audio, 2004)
Animal Wisdom: True Stories of the Animals Who Change Our Lives (Sounds True, 1997)
Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections (Random House, 1997)

MAGAZINE CREDITS

Vegetarian Times
Yoga Journal
Kindred Spirit
Magical Blend
Light of Consciousness
Common Ground-Reflections
Coping
Dog Fancy
Science of Mind Magazine

to feed the pets first

Religion & Spirituality > Self-Awareness & Realization Life lessons from a personal perspective

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When we make our New Year's resolutions, we don't normally say, "I resolve to make my life empty this year." When we pray, we don't pray to be unfilled or vacant. I am defining emptiness as that unsettling place between the end of one project or dream and the beginning of another, limbo land, when soil lies unplanted and cold and waiting for spring. Personally, I am a very poor student of emptiness. In fact, "empty" often shows up as a four-letter word in my personal dictionary-a curse word-because emptiness frequently feels like a curse to me. Winter is full of gifts that teach about the ...

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