This essay by April Reese was published on August 10, 2021 in PSYCHE, a digital magazine from AEON https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-brain-responds-to-grief-can-change-who-we-are/ It focuses on the complexity, individuality (as compared to the previously believed universality) of the manifestations of grief, as well as the bodily and brain changes that it induces. I thought it would be of [...]
WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER After Paul, I say to each and everyone grace to you, and peace, from God. I am glad to tell you also that on September 13 next, we will start our Seminar year at Seminole United Methodist Church in a well appointed and comfortable room that accommodates about 30 people [...]
A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE This year has been tough, filled with pain and suffering. Our sense of well-being and security has been shaken as we faced events that in our lifetime we have never faced: global pandemic, financial uncertainty, the loss of loved ones and extended isolation from our normal support systems. It is [...]
Larry Chappel, LMHC DESCRIPTION Overcoming Five Roadblocks to Christian Manhood It has been said that the difference between a man and a boy is that a man will deny himself to meet the needs of others. A boy meets his needs first. When men put their needs before others in relationship, problems are soon [...]
Ernesto Vasquez, MD DESCRIPTION 1. Recent psychological studies provide two radically different understandings of psychological responses to contagious malady and its management. 2. These studies are grounded by radically different and incompatible ways of psychological theorizing and reach equally different and incompatible conclusions and recommendations. 3. This seminar will offer ways of analyzing these [...]
“I HAVE A HEART FOR...” Ernesto Vasquez, MD September 15, 2020 NCC’s academic year was inaugurated on September 14 with a symposium on the similarities and differences of some of the helping professions and on the centrality of networking among all of us. It was for me a WATERSHED EVENT. I proposed perhaps the [...]
How can we have wisdom and faith to wait on the Lord? Betsy O'Callaghan, LMFT How can we have wisdom and faith to wait on the Lord, to trust in Him when all around us our world is being turned upside down? One of the blessings I am seeing in the midst of so [...]
In this time of uncertainty, isolation, and fear, there is one thing that is unchanging – One on whom we can count to rescue us and to provide for us. Those of us who know the Lord, who study His word and trust in His promises, have a different perspective than the rest of [...]
Presented by Harry Morgan, M.A., M.Div., Th.M., PhD, LMHC, Phil Lewis, M.A., Certified Life Coach, Glenn Pav, Marketplace Chaplain Seminar Title: Linking Pastoral Counseling, Life Coaching and the Chaplain Ministry to Licensed Clinical Counseling Seminar Objectives: 1. Identify the unique roles, responsibilities and restrictions in pastoral counseling, life-coaching, chaplaincy, and clinical counseling. 2. Understand [...]
COVID-19 Resources for Mental Health Professionals LIVE WEBINAR TRAINING (GoTowebinar) National Board of Forensic Evaluators, Inc. – NBFE TITLE: COVID-19 Resources for Mental Health Professionals PRESENTERS: Ekom Essien, LPC, CFMHE, CCCE, CPCS, RPT-S, Aaron Norton, LMHC, LMFT, MAC, CFMHE, CFBA, CCMHC As a service to mental health professionals, NBFE is providing a FREE 1-hour webinar for [...]
