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

Embrace the Memory

Imagine all the work that goes into building a friendship then only to lose them to the hands of #toxicity . . . Life has a way of bringing people inside your circle . . . . I believe they are placed there for a reason even if just for a season. Although it has been many years, I still think of my best friend (Mandy) and the good times we shared. At least, I have her memories to embrace. I hope and pray her (now) adult children are faring well after having lost their mom at such a young age. The experience of losing a #friend is never easy to digest.

Book Excerpt

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

The African-American man stated, “We have some bad news. Your friend, Mandy, was murdered.”
My hands shook as I cried out, “Oh my God, no, no!”
It took a while for me to compose myself. I wasn’t able to speak, just to listen.

“It must have happened some time before daybreak since her kids were sleep. The little one, Cindy, found Mandy with the knife still in her throat.”“Oh my god!” I howled. “Where is Cindy now?”

He responded, “She’s with relatives. Will you be okay if we continue?”
I told him, “Yeah, go ahead.”
“She had over twenty stab wounds. We believe she knew her killer since there was no forced entry.”
I interjected and said, “Mandy always slept with a knife under her pillow.”
He responded, “Well, that must be the one. . . .”
No one was a closer friend to Mandy than I. For this reason, I was expected to provide the answers to many questions. They interrogated me right there in my living room. “How long have you known Mandy? How close were you and Mandy? What type of relationship did she have with her estranged husband or boyfriend? How well do you know either of them?
Who do you suspect as the killer?”

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

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Author Biography

Author Insight

Embrace the Memory

Book Excerpt

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

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