Best-selling Author of 25 Books, including the 3-Time Award-Winner Pain Erasers
I'm thrilled to share my new book, Super-Powered Immunity: Natural Remedies for 21st Century Viruses and Superbugs. It is packed with information about research-proven foods, herbs, oils, mushrooms, probiotics, nutrients, fermented foods, and more to help you live your best and healthiest life.
Photo: The Essential Oils Healing Deck by Michelle Schoffro Cook. Copyright Michelle Schoffro Cook. All rights reserved.
Don't let health challenges prevent you from living the homesteading life of your dreams. After a car accident left me with a severe spinal cord injury (I still remember the emergency room doctor holding his forefinger and thumb together and telling me "you were this close to being quadriplegic"), I thought most of my dreams were over. While I was fortunate not to lose all function of my body, I still suffered partial paralysis, a breathing impairment, severe pain, among other issues as a result of my spinal cord being partially severed. Needless to say, I went in s…
Choose to be authentically you. You do not need to ask permission of the world, or anyone in it, to be the most genuine version of you, or to express all of the greatness within you. Indeed, deferring to others’ opinions of your kindness, creativity, intelligence, attractiveness, or some other attribute, or of you as a person, will only dull your shine. You do not need external validation for all that is already great within you. There is nothing you must do, change, or achieve to be worthy of respect, acceptance, or love.
In the same way, do not allow yourself to be defined by metrics. You are not an IQ, a weight, a height, an age, or an attractiveness number on an arbitrary gradation.…
Today, on World Book Day, I'm celebrating the many books that have had an impact on my life from the Romantic poets I read growing up to the many health-transforming books I've read and loved as an adult. I'm also celebrating my twenty-five book contribution to the world's books. Be sure to check them out here. I hope my books have touched you in some way and have helped you on your healing journey.
The tree known as Luna, meaning the moon, appears to be reaching across the Lost Orchard trail as if to lend a hand. It is reminiscent of the moon’s steadfast light extending a silvery glow to illuminate our path on our bleakest nights. And, like the moon’s power to influence vast ocean tides and measure time month after month, there is reassurance in the moon’s consistent nocturnal light shining even as we traverse the greatest challenges and difficulties in our life. We are not alone, no matter how much we may feel it, as we place one foot after the other and move, even if slowly, toward our destiny.
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The biting cold did not stop me from bundling up and heading out on my forest trails for a morning walk, camera in hand. Since you could not join me on my trek, I thought I’d snap a few photos to share with you. I did not imagine lasting long, particularly with fingertips peeking out of my gloves. But beautiful spot after breathtaking view captured my lens and heart until I had 165 photos, as well as the frozen limbs to show for it. Upon returning to my century-old farmhouse, I stoked the fire in the woodstove and curled up by its warmth to defrost my icy self, my heart already warmer from the excursion.
Here is just one of my photos (many more to come!) that I hope will lift your s…
The snow falls softly, gently caressing the landscape below, creating an air of stillness and peace. For a moment, I am transported to a slower time where the pace of life no longer steals the breath from my body, but rejuvenates my being. There are no hectic schedules, no deadlines, no to do lists, no voices interrupting my thoughts. I am one with the land below my feet and the landscape before me. I am the balance they proffer and the serenity in my soul. Perhaps for the first time in my life, I experience life as it is truly meant to be experienced and I feel free.
Photo: I grabbed my camera and headed out during today's blizzard for a brief walk to capture this photo of The Empres…
From the first step I took in an apple orchard south of Ottawa, Canada, I was in love with them. I loved the lush green trees filled with ruby red apples and the heavenly scent that filled the air. I loved filling my basket and enjoying them in pies, crisps, muffins, or eating them on their own. From that first step, I dreamt of having my own apple orchard. Every autumn, I felt homesick for an apple orchard I had never owned.
I viewed properties in British Columbia replete with orchards, but they were always out of reach. Then, after a series of distressing experiences, circumstances necessitated moving across the country and to an unseen home, relying only on the photos and descriptions…
The famous Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, once wrote: “fill your paper with the breathings of your heart,” which is sound advice for any writer. The sentiment could be expanded to be: “fill your life with the breathings of your heart.” So, in 2023, instead of making resolutions to change yourself in some way, why not resolve to be more of who you truly are? After all, your heart is a perfect blueprint for your soul’s passion and purpose so filling your days with more of its breathings can only lead to a better life. That is why I am wishing you a life filled with the breathings of your heart in 2023. Happy New Year! The photo is of The Empress, my four-storey-tall apple tree and one …
The apple tree I named The Embrace, depicted in the photo above, was one of the most challenging trees to extract from the seemingly endless prickly ash and buckthorns surrounding it. Like guards surrounding a treasure, these invasive barbed gatekeepers seemed impossible to navigate and often left me scratched and bloodied in my efforts to do so. The tree takes its name from the trunk that appears to be lovers held in an embrace across time. But, The Embrace is also the botanical embodiment of overcoming the challenges we believe hinder our ability to attain our heart’s longings. Like barbed trees, the lies we tell ourselves that we cannot reach our heart’s desires are merely obstacles o…
Hi. I'm Michelle. You may know me as the best-selling & award-winning author of 25 books on food, health, and herbs but I'm also a homesteader, orchardist, and wild food forager. I practice what I preach and I'm happy to share my adventures and insights in my blog "My Homesteading Life."
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