Allowing us to learn lessons, let go of toxicity, and gain insight,
relationship can play a powerful role in our lives. They are formed with
people, alcohol, animals, battlefields, diseases, drugs, environments,
and even our emotions. Whether toxic or nontoxic, relationships are an
integral component of daily living. Author Nina Norstrom lost her child
to a disease, but that wasn't the only toxic relationship she endured.
In this book, she explores the effects that her relationships with
grief, pain, trauma, and forgiveness have had on her life. This tale
exposes a mother's struggle to escape her world of toxicity, her journey
out of the clutches of diseased relationships, and the shoe prints the
experiences have left on her family's history. This story in its raw
form projects a remarkable voice to the heroic fight, courage, and
bravery gained when striking back to wipe out toxic relationships. Its
message reveals that life brings many challenges and that each challenge
provides lessons to be learned. This book is not intended to be a
blueprint for dealing with diseased relationships. It's about the shoe
prints: those symbols of life's journey that are left by our
experiences. Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints that Matter is an
insightful and inspiring personal story of one family's journey through
toxic relationships.
