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Heart in the Wild |  | Author: Susan Chernak McElroy
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 893145
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345442873
Dewey Decimal Number: 590
EAN: 9780345442871
ASIN: 0345442873
Publication Date: December 2, 2003
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Product Description
In her bestselling Animals as Teachers and Healers, author and animal advocate Susan Chernak McElroy shared how her beloved animal companions guided and sustained her through her battle with advanced cancer. Twelve years later, when a fire ravaged her mountain home and reduced her emotional security to ashes, once again animals—wild animals this time—provided the guidance that helped her heal and grow through yet another catastropic life change.
Writing with a passionate love and respect for the natural world, McElroy invites us to walk with her along the ancient four-footed path that leads through transformation into wholeness. The rattlesnake coiled inches from her hand, the broken-winged hummingbird who sat on her finger and drank sugar water, the red fox and his Saint Bernard playmate—each becomes an incarnation of life-sustaining powers, teaching us better, healthier ways of being in the world. These true stories and a host of others speak to the necessity for ritual, the value of generosity, and how to deal with essential life changes by reconnecting to the earth and its rhythms.
McElroy documents rich insights that come from her animal kin—animals in the wild and those in the inner world of dreams and visions. A cougar and her cubs bring balance and harmony to the valley. . . . A friend’s chocolate Lab builds medicine wheels around his human companions, reminding them of the need for community. . . . A cow elk attacked by wolves faces her own mortality stoically, teaching us that endings of one kind herald beginnings of another.
But it was the magnificent six-pointed bull elk who ventured into McElroy’s world each day and reappeared in her dreams at night that led her on her most inspirited soul journey through homelessness, divorce, and the deep sense of disengagement that she had felt since cancer had tried to evict her from her body years before.
A powerful, beautifully written story of one woman’s journey of personal transition to a genuine sense of belonging in the world, the book ends exactly where it should—in a heartfelt sense of home on earth, a place big enough to welcome all life.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Heart in the Wild March 31, 2005
Barbara A. Kelly (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Susan has done it again, write a book that I could not put down until I finished. In fact, I have just finished reading it for the second time. I especially loved how she shared her life experiences and the way animals have been a big part of her life.I love wolves and I sponsored a wolf named "Rosie". In this book Susan tells the story of the wolf that came to a Northeast couples home with a bad infected foot. They took the wolf in one night when he was very ill but the wolf died in the morning. That made me cry reading about the wolf, but the couple that provided care to this wolf are to be commended for their kindness to one of God's creatures and to Susan for writing about it.
A Journey of the Heart May 13, 2004
Mary (Kansas City, MO)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once again, Susan Chernak McElroy has demonstrated her uncanny ability to take the reader with her into the wild places and to open communication with our companions on this earth. She paints "word pictures" which sweep the staunchest urban dweller into her journey, as we travel with her and see and smell and hear the wooded landscape of the mountains. Her sensitivity and passion for Nature and the creatures of Nature act as a prism through which we can see into our hearts...and see there a reflection of that larger world.
A beautiful and inspiring read! May 11, 2004
P. Degtjarewsky (Orange County, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you love animals, nature and self-discovery, this is a book you must read. I could not put it down and have already read it twice. The author's courage in the face of amazing adversity is a gift to the reader. It shows how a willing and open spirit can help you achieve grace and peace.
 Didn't like it March 18, 2004
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
Would not recommend it......did not like it at all.
Dance in the Wild March 17, 2004
Timothy K. O'donoghue (Jackson Hole, Wyoming)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Susan Chernak McElroy's heart is really revealed in her latest book. Heart in the Wild is a must read for anyone who wants to get to know her better. With courage, humor, and exquisite insight, she tells of the path that she has traveled and the wisdoms that have been revealed from her life with Nature. I would have loved to have read this book prior to her earlier two books and thus more fully appreciated her teachings and insights. Through her book, Susan has shared the gift of who she is, the deep empathy she has with all of Nature, and the dance she continues to this day.
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