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

Will Never Be Forgotten

As the year 2017 comes to a close, I think about all those sweet and beautiful #Angels that we lost to another life. Realizing they were on loan to us, I know their presence will never be forgotten. As a mother (a parent), I feel that #emptiness that lives inside, and that pain which reaps from those broken hearts. It is so very heart to let go. OMG, do I know the depth of the hardness! Surely, we break down and want to give up ourselves. Yet, I’ve discovered our Heavenly Father loves us enough that He sent them to shower us with their precious gifts. And whence He called them back home, He made sure they left behind an abundance of gifts to embrace. Our love and memories for them will be everlasting. Be assured, no one will ever rob us of that! RIP in peace all you little angels. The tears keep flowing but as the time passes they will lessen. Know your life here on earth will long be remembered. The years will come and go, but (Angels) you will still be in our thoughts and hearts. https://www.ask.com/youtube?q=you tube mariah carey I don't wanna cry

Book Excerpt

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

That night the pain was deeper than my heart could bear. But I didn’t call anyone. I decided to drown my sorrows.
When I got home, I had a strong urge to listen to my favorite song by Mariah Carey, “I Don’t Wanna Cry.” The melody of Mariah’s high-octave vocals embraced my pain and sorrow perfectly somehow. I drowned my emotions in a bottle of booze — E & J Cognac, straight. I got lost in the emptiness inside myself. I almost lost her. I kept drinking anyway. Could I have sunk any lower? But the booze didn’t lessen the pain. It had truly been one of the worst moments in my life. I loved her so, but felt her drifting. There was this huge void. It felt as though I wanted to give up, just keel over and die before she was gone. It had become so darn hard to live my life. We parents are supposed to go before our children! The sadness and loneliness felt unbeatable.

“Why won’t you take away my pain? Take away this pain! Would you?!” I screamed to my God.
Emotionally drained and taxed, I became completely burned out. The booze didn’t help it any. On top of those emotions, there was a burning pain in my chest that refused to leave. As I sipped the last of the liquid from my glass, I threw my head back, forced open my eyes, and, looking up at the ceiling, I asked my God, “Shall I ever find contentment and peace inside?” But I felt no escape.

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

Will Never Be Forgotten

Book Excerpt

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

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