Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

Parenting & Relationships

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Synopsis

Symbolizing a Journey ─ Learning Lessons ─ Letting Go ─ and Gaining Insight . . . tools that lead to relationships. Relationships are formed with people, alcohol, animals, battlefields, diseases, drugs, environments, and even our emotions. Whether toxic or nontoxic they’re an integral part of daily living. Follow Author Nina Norstrom through the journey as she peels off those toxic relationships. The story takes you through the experiences of grief, pain, trauma, and forgiveness. The story weaves lies with love, betrayal with deception and drama with murder. As the shoe prints are molded in and out of a variety of unhealthy relationships, they’ll leave behind a blazing trail of lessons. Teaching an ultimate lesson for the meaning of relationships, that builds honesty and compassion. The story in its raw image projects a remarkable voice to the heroic fight and bravery gained when striking back to wipe out the toxicity of deadly relationships. Through its reading, you will discover the importance that life brings many challenges, and that each challenge provides lessons to be learned. Inside the Excerpts, are sneak previews of what's bubbling: Preorders are available for April 5, 2016 DETAILS ABOUT THE JOURNEY Why is the topic so important? What we do in our everyday experiences brings about important life lessons. We’re living inside the topic each day we inhale anew breathe. In These days and times, toxicity has settled in the environment. Just think about it: every day we wake up we’re on the battlefield fighting a war. And just feeling where there’s: good against evil; sons against fathers; daughters against mothers; nations against nations; drugs against diseases; and the list goes on and on.

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Author Biography

As an award-winning author, Not a Blueprint: It’s the Shoe Prints that Matter is a @bookexcellence Award Finalist! Check it out here: www.bookexcellenceawards.com Over three decades, Norstrom has unmasked the levels of relationships: pain; abuse; emotions, diseases; work environments; trauma; and its poison of unforgiveness. In the artistic world, it is those literary creations that demonstrate a measure of personal growth that magnifies those hurdles conquered - from darkness to survival, even her release from incarceration. While growing and blossoming, she has maintained a healthier lifestyle . . . staying free of unhealthy relationships. Through her experiences, Norstrom has encountered a complete metamorphosis ─ releasing one identity for another. Living inside this transitional lifestyle she states, “I see myself as that long-blooming, rich flower waiting to attract those butterflies. It is there, I’ve come full circle having realized the dangerous effects of toxicity."

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Author Insight

Damaged Goods (Corrected)

(A continuation of last week’s bubble 1.15, and with more excerpts included) . . . You may not wanna hear or face the fact "toxicity" is here to stay. Just because it’s got that ugly word “toxic” attached. There's way too many people whose lives are being taken senselessly (by the likes of toxicity). So don’t clench up your body. It’s not the word that comes at you. It’s those interactions you should be afraid of. You may think it’s the people who are only ones full of toxicity. . . W R O N G, wrong as two left shoes. Toxicity wears many mask . . . go back to work and look at that environment, go to the doctor and let them tell you, “you have a disease,” go get checked into an abuse center for alcohol or drugs, go get checked into a mental illness center, and let your mate keep kicking your behind up and down Central Park. . Trailer coming soon!

Book Excerpt

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

Dad never physically abused any of his kids; Mom was the one he sought. He didn’t show an ounce of kindness when it came to her. Dad had real issues; he was toxic and poisonous. Think about it: What kinda man whips his wife with a belt? Isn’t that a sign of a deeply
troubled man?

The memory gets kind of fuzzy. I don’t recall all the details, just the gist of the story. And this one added another blemish to darken Dad’s character.
It happened the time Bobby took the Halsted Street bus to Chicago, where he met Dad for lunch. When Bobby arrived at the restaurant on 73rd Street, Dad was already seated, sipping black coffee. Dad loved coffee without any cream or sugar, and would always order a delicious pecan roll. While they sat there talking, the waitress returned to refill Dad’s coffee cup and take
Bobby’s order.

In his deep tone, Dad introduced the waitress to Bobby. Turning to face the waitress, he told her, “This is my nephew.”
“It totally threw me for a loop when Dad made that statement,” Bobby told me. “Dad didn’t have the decency to let the waitress know I was his son. He called me his nephew. Sis, I was so speechless and hurt that I just didn’t say anything to him.”

When my brother shared this experience, I too felt the pain. Although I was Daddy’s girl, some things just can’t be excused. When Dad split from the family, we four eldest had grown and were nearing adulthood

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

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Nina Norstrom

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

Damaged Goods (Corrected)

Book Excerpt

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

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