Sharifa Oppenheimer

Sharifa Oppenheimer is the author of the consistently popular Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children and its companion workbook How To Create Your Family Culture. She explores best-practices for childhood brain development in With Stars in Their Eyes: Brain Science and Your Child’s Journey Toward the Self. There she offers traditional wisdom-ways merged with cutting edge research in brain science.

After writing extensively from her love, experience, and connection with young children, she has turned toward writing about humanity’s profound connection with the living Earth. Her recent books follow this thread. A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology explores this theme through essays, poetry, and dreams. In her newly published Rewilding the Human Heart ~ A Journey of Reunion, she invites the reader to travel into a deep relationship with the emerald earth. We trek with her through the outer terrain of the cardinal elements, and find them reflected in the inner landscape of the soul; this brings us closer to our own beating heart. She offers online Sacred Ecology gatherings that explore humanity’s inter-being with our other-than-human relations.