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

B r O k E n Soul

Dad, you did it all, huh? Having those wild flings, telling those lies, and committing physical abuse on mom. Truly, that was who you were, and mom endured your toxic ways. But what that showed me (us) as a child, “You couldn’t be faithful in your marriage, respectful, or caring as a father. And showing us that toxic behavioral side was evidence you were broken inside and out; broken as a fallen Humpty Dumpty. Now, I say to you (dad), “Wherever your remains rest after death, may the Creator have mercy on your broken soul.” Dad (yes), you broke mother down. Regardless, that which you’d done to mother had been done to you. You were already B r O k E n.

Book Excerpt

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

My dad, Johnny Sr., worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Chicago as a pipe fitter. And that’s where he met Mom. Dad, a Southern guy, wasn’t only handsome—he was a rolling stone. Tall and clean-shaven, he had a small trimmed mustache, and his hair was a mass of silky black curls. He used Murray’s grease to keep the curls intact. It had one of those strongholds
and gave a great shine—that pomade did the job. He was always dressed as sharp as a tack; stayed in his three-piece suit even when he was hanging around the house. Now, you’ve heard the phrase, “Papa was a rolling stone.”

Yes, indeed, Dad made his rounds with the women. Don’t think Mom didn’t know about those flings.

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

B r O k E n Soul

Book Excerpt

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

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