Bøger af Suzanne Falter

"Straight talk, lighthearted humor and a wealth of practical advice!" -Cheryl Richardson If you're an entrepreneur who can't launch the big idea, a writer with writer's block, or anyone afraid to go for it, this is the book for you. This recently updated creativity classic packs a punch. In fresh, funny language amply laced with wisdom, How Much Joy Can You Stand? gives you the inspirational boost you've been needing. It's loaded with the reassurance and encouragement to get going ... and keep going. A reader wrote: "... this book had me up all night, and the next! I read it in just 2 days. I couldn't put it down." Stories, anecdotes, and the author's own hard-won wisdom tell the simple truth about creating your dream--it's not as hard as you think. Ignite the fire in your belly and get your creative juices flowing. Learn when to run from helpful advice. Discover whether talent really matters. And stick with your work even in the face of couch-potato attacks and complete creative meltdown. Hands-on exercises follow each short, pungent chapter to put you back on track toward achieving your goals--and realizing your dreams. Care about your dream? Long for a life unlived? Read How Much Joy CanYou Stand? -- and get ready to live your dreams.

"One of the most remarkable books you'll read this year. Or any year..." - Publisher's Daily ReviewSometimes the worst crises become our greatest healers. That's what happened to author Suzanne Falter after the sudden, strange death of her daughter Teal at age 22. Immediately, Suzanne began to write. She had to just to make sense of Teal's death. Since then, these essays that have been shared hundreds of thousands of time on Facebook.But then, that's what Teal would have wanted. Because she was, in fact, a healer.In Surrendering to Joy, Suzanne charts her path over the year following Teal's death. With searing, raw honesty, she covers the most important things in life - love, forgiveness, humanity. Compassion.She writes about the incredible outpouring of love around the world after Teal's death.And about forgiving her difficult mother just before her death a few months later.And about realizing she has been a drama junkie, and how to deal with uncertainty.Her readers have described the book as intimate, healing, wise ... like having a chat with an oldfriend. And that is its essence. Each page is, indeed, blessed with some kind of unusual grace.This is a story of letting go. Dancing through a dark tunnel, fumbling along from one signpost to the next, and believing for no good reason that at any moment an unexpected light will shine.Of course, the light was always there from the beginning, shining quite beautifully. I'd simplyforgotten where to look for it.So I found myself with nothing to call my own in my 53rd year. That was the year I lost everything: my career, my home, the relationship I had been pinning my hopes on, my mother, and my marriage of 23 years.And then I lost Teal."One of the most remarkable books you'll read this year. Or any year..." -- Publisher's Daily ReviewSometimes the worst crises become our greatest healers. That's what happened to author Suzanne Falter after the sudden, strange death It took the sudden death of my beautiful, life-loving, jubilant 22-year- old daughter for me to truly dissolve and be reborn. And to find my way back to a state of grace, and a deep and abiding joy.Knowing Teal, that is just the way she would have wanted it; she always had a better idea of how her mother should do things.It was only after her death that I realized she was exactly right.* * *The cause of Teal's death remains unknown. A housemate found her collapsed in an empty bathtub after a cardiac arrest. EMTs managed to restore her heartbeat, but she never regained consciousness and was taken off life support six days later. Teal was an epileptic, but doctors will never know if a seizure was the cause of her death.Researchers estimate one in one thousand epileptics pass away from mysterious sudden deaths each year. But I believe Teal died because she was meant to become a healer from the afterlife. Several months before her death, Teal called me to say, "In six months something really big is going to happen that will give me my healing gift." She had received this information in a meditation.A few days after her cardiac arrest, I began to feel Teal's presence around me, talking to me and sending me this beautiful, shimmering, etheric love.Not long after that, driven by a sense of love and peace, I began to write these essays ... they chronicled my slow crawl back to acceptance - and a deep forgiveness of others, but mostly myself.It was as if Teal was sitting with me as I wrote each essay, thoughtfully guiding my choice of words with love and care.Each of these essays has a healing heart, offered with my wish for your own love and happiness. That is what writing these essays has done for me.In her lifetime, Teal wanted that love and healing for all of us more than anything. And so it is.

This incredible but true story proves there is an Afterlife-and that those who've passed on have the power to heal us. A heart-opening page-turner that will change your view of death and life forever. When Teal Barns decided to become a healer at the age of twenty-two, the last thing she expected was that she would die. As her mother, Suzanne, watched her die from a medically unexplainable cardiac arrest, a voice told her Teal's death would not be in vain. Instead, it would heal Suzanne's broken, driven, workaholic life. And she, in turn, would lead Teal's healing work throughout the world via books, a podcast and a Facebook group. This is the story of how Teal's incandescent energy has appeared in visions, dreams, whisperings, and a tingling, channeled laughter that left Suzanne uplifted, inspired. Healed. Teal is here to heal us all in the toughest of times. "Read this and let it open you to the fullness of life." - Gina Ryan, The Anxiety Coaches Podcast "Suzanne shows how our connection with those we love never ends. There is so much to learn and love from Free Spirited." - Dr. Robert Puff, Host of the Happiness Podcast "Suzanne intertwines vulnerability, humor and raw emotion as she walks with you through the process from profound grief to the healing transformation of love..."- Denise Correll, Host of the Enlightened Empath Podcast "Free Spirited enriches readers' lives with love, happiness, healing and ultimately freedom!"- Zibby Owens, Host of Busy Women Don't Have Time to Read Books

From the author of Driven: "This is a fun read! Lizzy is totally adorable..." Curve Magazine Can one of the greatest tragedies of your life become one of your great blessings as well? The Oaktown Girls learn just how deep their bonds of friendship and love go in this final, uplifting book in the series. First, there's the matter of Frankie and Sally's upcoming wedding. Frankie's all set to win over her difficult mother on a visit home, until Sally makes a glaring misstep. Then Frankie reveals a heartbreaking misstep of her own, leaving Sally devastated. Which is just when Sally's borderline ex suddenly shows up. At the same time, Kate's father is dying back in Ireland. Her decision to go back to attend his death completely upends Lizzy. Meanwhile, Tenika and Delilah are about to give birth to twins-and psychic Sally predicts problems ahead. Things boil to a head when an unexpected development brings the entire group to the hospital. What follows is a life-changing night none of them will ever forget. This moment of truth teaches them all a key lesson in this inspiring fifth book in the series.Only together can they ultimately triumph.

From the author of the Rainbow Award-Winning series, Transformed "This is a fun read! Lizzy is totally adorable..." Curve Magazine Who says you can't find the love of your life while you're getting your tire fixed? Even IF your boss is actively trying to close her garage? Driven is the oldest woman-owned garage in Oakland - and the pride of the lesbian community. At least, it is until the uber-competitive former race car driver Mindy Rose shows up and opens her own garage, complete with chair massages and a sushi bar. Mindy's out to destroy Driven, a fact that galls her good-hearted, and very ethical Irish assistant Kate. This is just reinforced when Kate has an emergency blow out, and is forced to go into Driven for a repair. Instantly, she finds herself drawn to the tall, tantalizing co-owner Lizzy. That's when things get ... well ... complicated. Especially because Kate is an undocumented worker who seriously needs her job. Soon Kate finds herself hatching a secret scheme to save Driven, while falling hard for Lizzy. Yet, Lizzy has no idea she's part of the Mindy's nasty operation. Or even that Mindy is out to get her. Can sweet Kate and passionate Lizzy finally find the love they've been looking for forever? Or will Mindy find out and bring them and Driven down - and get Kate deported in the process? And when is Kate going to tell Lizzy who she actually is? It's just the beginning of the wild ride that is the Oaktown Girls series.

From the author of Driven: "This is a fun read! Lizzy is totally adorable..." Curve Magazine Is it wise to propose marriage to your undocumented girlfriend if she just moved in ... and she's already thinking of moving out? That's the question on auto mechanic Lizzy's mind as she wrestles with what to do in Book Two of the Oaktown Girls series. Commitment is definitely in the air for this tightly knit circle of Oakland lesbians. Tenika can't stand the idea of marrying anyone - but her partner Delilah, a tattoo artist, has her heart set on it. But then, when Delilah develops a strange, disabling tremor, Tenika's forced to rethink everything she once held as true. Meanwhile Frankie, a newcomer who happens to be an undercover cop, can't find a date to save her life. That is until she happens to meet the ravishing charmer Tasha at Tenika and Lizzy's garage. Will Frankie's PTSD undermine her ability to open up and find her love? And will it be Tasha, or the sweet, open-hearted Sally who seems to know a little too much about her? And why won't either of them tell Frankie what they do for a living? Find out who falls in love for good in this warm-hearted page turner you can't put down.

We are all destined to learn certain lessons in life ... and love certain people. Whether we're ready to or not. Garage owner Lizzy is finally about to move in with her love Kate, an Irish expat, until ICE shows up and threatens to deport her. Soon Kate is living in a Sanctuary church and Lizzy is trying to get her out. But the church maintenance person, Monroe, soon gets dangerously obsessed with Kate, as well. Meanwhile, SFPD undercover cop Frankie has fallen hard for Sally, a psychic, even though she can't wrap her head around Sally's work. Which is okay until Sally needs Frankie's professional help with a psychic vision she's seen that could be catastrophic for Oakland. Where does Frankie draw the line - or should she at all? And should Lizzy propose marriage to Kate ... even though they almost broke up the last time she mentioned it? Destined captures the romantic ups and downs of this tightly knit group of Oakland lesbians. It's fun, fast-moving standalone that will make you think about your own destiny, as well.

From the author of the best-selling Oaktown Girls series. There are times in life when we must reveal who we truly are ... or we cannot have the love we crave. "Starkly realistic and involving, Revealed excels..." - California Bookwatch Tenika Cummins, the co-owner of Oakland's Driven garage, wants to become a mother. But first, she must reveal a long held secret she's kept from everyone ... including her wife. Will she resolve her past? Or won't she? Rosalind, an Asian-American tech lesbian, is ready for a real relationship when she meets her love-at-first-sight crush, Monroe. However, first she must come out to her homophobic, evangelical parents who've sacrificed everything for her. But will they disown her if she does? Meanwhile Monroe, who is non-binary, must file for a new gender marker and name change to truly begin a new life with Rosalind. And that means confronting their own mother in court. Three deeply engrossing stories of love, loss and the power of owning your truth interweave in this fourth book in the Oaktown Girls series. It's all about owning who you are ... even when the risks are huge. An inspiring page turner from the Oaktown Girls.

What does it take to truly let go of all the worries, fears and doubts that keep you up at night? From the author named one of "the best of the best self-help authors" by SELF magazine ... Can you let go of the inadequate job, the bad marriage or the dysfunctional friendship that drain your energy? What would your life look like if you didn't hold on tight to things you can't control, but learned instead to relax and go with the flow? In The Joy of Letting Go, author and podcaster Suzanne Falter helps you do exactly that. Dive to the heart of how to stop resisting life as it is. Instead, learn practical tools and solutions that really do guide you to let go of any kind of issue, place, person or job with greater ease and certainty. Suzanne learned this and more in a critical year in which she burned out her business, ended her relationship, lost her home ... and then suddenly, her 22-year-old daughter Teal died, as well. In wise, warm, often funny terms, Suzanne shares the insights she discovered as she rebuilt her life. From how to be alone on your birthday to giving yourself a pep talk and learning emotional self-care, The Joy of Letting Go advocates fiercely for your joy. If letting go is hard for you, here is the spiritual pep talk you've been needing. Are you ready to let go of the pain, and surrender to happiness? If so, read The Joy of Letting Go.

The first dedicated self-care guide for women who do it all.