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

Reliving Memories of COVID19

This fight with toxicity (COVID19-relationship) is not new for me. Perhaps, it is to you! Some decades ago, I met this deadly-relationship face-to-face; I felt its raft as we fought. I’m familiar with the dangerous effects; and how its tortured imprisonment can drive one to drink. With the social distancing restrictions, there’s no wonder alcohol sales has spiked its peak in consumption . . . since pandemic of COVID19. "You took me there Mariah where I didn't want to go. Yet, through your lyrics and vocals, I found comfort as you eased the pain." While medicating myself with E&J, I was in that world where everything appeared gloomy and doomed! This space was a place shadowed by a mass of toxicity. Reliving the memories . . . it's a world where I wouldn't wish my worst enemy to travel. Life is so full of stuff (the good, the bad, and the ugly). But isn't that what life throws at us: a season of joy, a storm of obstacles, years of struggles, and life of challenges? It all boils down to taking that journey! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2WPMnOKXho

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 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 of my life. There was this huge void. It felt as though I wanted to give up, just keel over and die . . . . It had become so darn hard to live my life. . . . The sadness and loneliness felt unbeatable.

“Why won’t you take away my pain? Take away this pain! Would you?!” I screamed . . . .

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, “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

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Author Biography

Author Insight

Reliving Memories of COVID19

Book Excerpt

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

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