Happy Birthday America! This 4th of July let’s reflect on all that is amazing about America. America is more than a bright and shining city on a hill – it is a bright and shining spacious night sky filled with shining stars of many shapes and sizes – Americans - as amazing as fireworks in the sky.

This is our country and there’s no better time to reflect on what it stands for than when we celebrate the 4th of July – Independence Day. What’s this holiday all about? It’s about the American Dream, fireworks lighting up the sky, every relationship in your life, and Yankee Doodle Dandies!

Fear and trust are two emotions that follow the rush of feelings that people usually have at the beginning of a relationship. Why is that? What happens to make one person or the other begin to fear making a real commitment to a relationship? What are they afraid of?

In all probability most people have heard the following words in their lifetime – It’s your fault. No matter who says it, the recipient is usually annoyed by the innuendo. It seems that no one likes to be tagged by a fickle finger pointing at them and blaming them for something.

Once upon a time adults read Fairytales to children as a form of entertainment but they were also an excellent tool for teaching them basic values, good and bad, naughty and nice, truth or consequences, etc. I think its time for adults and children to revisit Fairytale and Nursery Rhyme lessons.

Everything happens for a reason – how many times have you heard someone make that statement? Why do relationships fail or disasters befall you? Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum has answers in her book Everything Happens For A Reason.

So - what’s your story? That’s a question that everyone has an answer to even if they say they don’t. Everybody has a story if they’ve been living their life - the single, the separated, the married and the divorced, and all the jesters and fools. So - What’s your story? Is it fact or fiction?

What do Emotional Relationship Baggage and Hoarding have in Common? They are both problems that may have a similar solution – Use It (to learn from and heal) And Lose It Fast! Move on with your life with a new resolve to never allow yourself to be burdened with the leftovers from your past again.

Do you have a Drama Addiction? Maybe this seems like a silly question to some of you but the reality is that an addiction to drama in your life from your relationships is difficult to get over just like any other addiction. What exactly is a drama addiction? Let’s look at a few examples.

Have you ever watched a show that goes behind the scenes and shows you how magic tricks work? Everyone knows there’s a trick to the magic trick but it’s really so much more enjoyable to believe its magic than to believe it’s a trick. Love is sometimes like that as well.