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 [...]
Understanding Why the Covid-19 Narrative is Psychologically Traumatizing Ernesto Vasquez, MD November 11, 2020 In my NCC seminar a couple of days ago, I offered an analysis of the covid-19 narrative as having imposed a severely stressful and psychologically traumatizing form of global captivity for humankind. I am writing this post to provide some [...]
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 [...]
