Suzie Eller

Friendships/Mentoring

Is friendship spiritual? Suzie thinks the answer is yes! Many women are asking God for encouragement or wisdom or for their load to be a little lighter. Maybe the answer to that prayer is a friend. You are created for intimacy. You instinctively want to go deep, to nurture, and friendship can be the best form of self-care. It's a gift! Suzie helps you understand why a woman might be intimidated by friendship, and the reasons it's tough to commit, but how you grow when we take a leap of faith and walk through life with a friend. Suzie will help you: - Nurture yourself, as well as your family and others, through girlfriend time - Appreciate the differences in potential friends - Give friendship another opportunity if you've been hurt by a friend - Recognize an unhealthy friendship if you are in one - Reach out rather than wait for someone to come to you

Parenting/Motherhood

Your experience as a mother and as a woman is influenced by the mothering you yourself received. Do you wish you had a healthier vision of what motherhood can be? Suzie was raised in dysfunction, and her desire was to create a stronger, healthier branch of her family tree. Suzie shares how to move beyond the fear that you'll pass damaging patterns on to your children, and how to give your children the gift of good memories and a great future. She'll also share what to do when your children are growing up and you've already made mistakes. Suzie shares how to rise above the past to leave a legacy of love for your sons and daughters, and how to celebrate God's healing power as you become the mom you want to be. Workshops include: - Shattered Legacies: When you want to give your child something greater - Throwing Out Your Good Mom List - Tossing your "I don't wanna's" to discover what you can do - The Power of Perspective: Reshaping your focus to form your children's memories - Unpack it! Get rid of unhealthy parenting methods to discover what really works Keynotes: - The Mom I Want to Be - Free! to Forgive (from Living Free series) Suzie will help you: - Learn from the past rather than be a victim of the past - Let go of resentment or anger or unforgiveness so you can move forward - Transition from parenting in the moment to parenting for long-lasting results - Exchange anxiety or fear with confidence - Trade unhealthy parenting methods to make your home a healthy, fun environment - Rediscover the joy of parenting - Perfect for parenting, counseling, breaking free, rehabilitation, Celebrate Recovery, MOPS, prison ministry, and other conferences.

Nobody knows how teens really feel about things more than teens themselves. Suzie talked with hundreds of teens across the nation, asking them the tough questions about family, their pressures, why they don't talk and what they might say if they did, what makes home feel like their safe place, and how they really feel about mom and dad--and the one thing they want their parents to know, whether their relationship is solid and strong, or a work in progress. Workshops include: - What You Show Me About Faith - How to hurt -- and help -- your teen's relationship with God - Why Doesn't My Teen Talk? Breaking down communication barriers to rediscover the joy of talking with your teen - Home Sweet Home - Five Things Teens Say make home "sweet home". Keynotes include: - Reality Check - Relevant Family Faith Suzie will help you: - Listen to your teen and really hear what she is saying - Throw out ineffective communication skills to talk with your teen - Swap fear (of culture or peer pressure) with practical tools - Set family guidelines that work for your family - Come alongside your teen as he or she discovers personal faith - Start the process of healing fractured relationships--regardless of who is at fault - Create relationship that will last beyond the teen years

Spiritual Growth

Jesus promises that He is looking for you. He has created you for intimacy with Him from the very beginning. Suzie shares how she discovered that she was "marked by God" and how that redefined her as a woman, and then as a believer. Whether religious or seeking or so hungry for God that she can't see straight, Suzie leads women to take their relationship with Christ to the next level. Suzie will help you: - Re-identify yourself as a person desired and valued by Christ - Never feel lost or unworthy of His love again - Give Christ full access to your feelings, life, and needs

We live in a busy and chaotic world. Is our faith supposed to be just as complex? Suzie invites you to take a deep breath and rest: spiritually, emotionally, physically. There's something wonderful about pampering with chocolate and massages, but Suzie helps you rest in Christ, and to put aside striving so you can slow down long enough to get really still with God Suzie will help you: - Shift the focus from your efforts to what God has already accomplished - "Work" from a place of rest, rather than try to find rest from work - Reorder your life so you can slow down

Casia. Myrrh. Cinnamon. Fragrant Cane. Olive Oil. These ingredients in anointing oil may sound ancient. But Suzie believes--knows!--that Jesus can still gently restore lives and hearts of women today. She shares the power found in holy anointing oil, and how Jesus fulfilled each, living inside of each of us, close enough and powerful to heal, to restore, to revive, to re-ignite vibrant faith. Suzie will help you: - Draw you closer to Jesus when you feel distant - Experience peace and comfort in the midst of trouble - Stand strong instead of discouraged - Get back on track rather than be stuck in sin - Rediscover vibrant, personal faith

Forgiveness is the most powerful gift you can give to others and yourself. But where do you begin? What do you do if forgiveness is messy, or confusing? Does it depend on the response of others? What do you do if forgiving makes you feel vulnerable? With gentle honesty, Suzie comes alongside as you dig deep into what forgiveness really means, and how to let go. She shares 5 reasons it's hard to forgive, but what you gain when you do. She shares practical and spiritual steps to help you to let go and live fully as a forgiver. Suzie will help you: - Gain a greater understanding of what forgiveness is, and what it is not - Grow spiritually even if others aren't willing to change - Replace unhealthy responses and feelings with a peaceful mindset - Find the grace to forgive yourself when you fall short - Refocus from the past or the offense to live wholly in the moment

Perhaps you feel stuck, or you wonder if God is listening. Maybe your crossroads is all about difficult people, or circumstances you didn't ask for. Or you have big dreams and don't know how to get from here to "there", or you've been waiting to hear from God for a long time. Suzie invites women to look at crossroads in a whole new way. She leads women to invite Christ into their personal crossroads, transforming them into turning points in their lives. Suzie will help you: - Recognize things that might keep you stuck so you can change course - Experience a deeper security in Christ when circumstances or people are unreliable - Find direction when you don't know what to do - Discover how to live strong and with joy in difficult waiting times

Have you ever heard these words? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Get over it! Hard words to hear when you've tried everything you know and you still feel broken. Most of us learn to push it down, or hide it, or just keep going when that's the exact opposite of what Christ invites us to do. Suzie was raised in abuse and dysfunction. She understands what it's like to feel broken, but she also knows what it's like to experience absolute wholeness. She bypasses the tough love statements to show you the miracle of grace and transformation. She shares how to hear and respond to God's leading as He shows you the way out of brokenness to healing. - Stop hiding your broken places and start healing - Replace unhealthy thoughts with truth that you are desired by God. - Replace remorse with anticipation of what God can and will do - Enhance confidence as you distinguish between human love and God's love