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There is a place I want to visit. It’s Denial Bay, South Australia. It’s really just a fishing and tourist village on the western side of Murat Bay about 350 miles from Adelaide. This bay and village was named from the “deceptive hope [they] had formed penetrating by it some distance into the interior of the country.” In other words it was suspected that the bay would provide an entry into the interior regions of the country, but instead was simply a bay and not an entrance. Denial Bay is now a stop for tourists who wish to enjoy a change of scenery from the salt bushes. It doesn’t sound like such a bad place to visit. It doesn’t conjure up visions of doom that the phrase “floating up the river of Denial” seems to generate. Let’s take a look at the word “denial”. It can be a verb deriving from the word “deny” or it can be a noun indicating a place called “Denial.” In this case, the real place of Denial Bay and the fictional river of Denial. I think the word “denial” has gotten a bad ra...

About ten years ago I had a heart attack brought on by stress. These are the steps I used to help myself heal: 1. I made a list of the things causing me stress. 2. Every time I got upset or angry over a specific situation, I wrote it down and included it in my list. 3. I examined each item on my list and categorized it as: a) something that can be resolved via an action by me; b) something over which I had no control; c) something that time will resolve. 4. The items that were the things that could be resolved by taking action were categorized by the least stressing to the most stressing. 5.  I worked on resolving one issue at a time. I started with the one that required the littlest effort and went from there. This list is never-ending. There will always be something that gets added on with resolutions that require time, money or emotional expense. 6. The stresses over which I have no control, I pushed aside thinking I would come back to them after I had dealt with all the more pr...