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Susan Eirich
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: General Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Memoir, Nature/Science
Skills: Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview
Susan B. Eirich, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, biologist, practical visionary, and author. Her goal has always been to see through others' eyes as a way to enhance understanding between cultures, peoples and species. She blends animal and human psychology into an ecopsychology and spiritual ecology perspective.
Founding Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary & Retreat Center in 2000, she pioneered Reconnection Ecology®, a unique approach toward global conservation and preservation based on her experiences living with rescued wild animals over their lifetimes. In every venue she can, Susan shares startling and heart-opening stories and videos that demonstrate why deeply understanding wild animals can heal the trauma that humans, animals, and our Earth are currently experiencing. She states, “Expanding our sense of community to truly include all Life is a very effective way to address climate change because we begin to see the interconnected systems of how nature works.”
Dr. Eirich has taught psychology at universities around the world, worked in maximum-security prisons, developed a university counseling center, directed a Nature Conservancy Preserve and lived in remote corners of Nepal, the Mid- and Far East, the Northwest Territories and the Amazon rainforest. She believes it is urgent to inspire the global community to expand wildlife corridors in a network throughout the continents, and works to preserve her local Yellowstone to Yukon wildlife corridor, the last intact wildlife mountain corridor in the world.
Susan can be reached via her website.
Susan Eirich's books
Whispers from the Wild, an Invitation
Founded in 2000, Earthfire Institute is a sanctuary for rescued wildlife native to the Yellowstone to Yukon Wildlife Corridor. Living with these wild animals over their lifetimes, founder and Executive Director Susan B. Eirich, Ph.D. vividly illuminates the incredible connection of these animals to each other and to the humans who care for them. Through inspirational storytelling, Susan shares her experiences with these animals, in play, in love, and through their passing. From a wolf who maneuvered her way into cabin-living, to a developmentally delayed bear who deeply moved all who met him, these are the stories of the animals of Earthfire–a taste of the laughter, joy and love they brought, and the insights they offered.
Filled with hundreds of stunning color photographs and exclusive artwork, Whispers from the Wild is an immersive experience into the world of wild animals.
“These stories are rememberings of what humans and the other living beings who came before us once knew, that we share this gift of Earth and life, and that we must care for each other. They are moments of realization, efforts toward listening and speaking in ways we have all inherited yet forgotten, turned away from. They are connections between hearts and minds and voices across the divisions that “civilization” has imposed on our imaginations of what is real, human and animal. They are stories of loving, of being loved, and they open us to what is necessary at this crucial time.”
—Stan Rushworth, author of Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain; Diaspora’s Children; and co-editor with Dahr Jamail of We Are The Middle Of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island On The Changing Earth
Into the Space and Silence
Wilderness is a place of dreams.
This collection of essays was written after the author traveled on horseback through the vast, untrammeled lands of the Muskwa-Kechika region of northern British Columbia. The essays offer a sense of the profound peace and healing capacity of untamed nature in one of the last remaining wildlife corridors on Earth.
Into the Space and Silence was part of an effort to protect the Muskwa-Kechika as an integral part of the Yellowstone and Yukon wildlife corridor.
“Animal lover or not, you can’t read Susan’s writing without feeling a connection to the natural world and a sense of your own ‘animalness.’ Her affinity for wild animals translates into lyric descriptions of their lives and purpose on this planet we share, too often grudgingly on our part. With lovingly rendered detail, Dr. Eirich intimately states the case for conservation of habitats and species."
-- Deb Barracato, Founding Publisher and Editor, Powder Mountain Press.