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Understanding Self-harm and Dealing with It

November 7, 2022 By Val Gonzales 4 Comments

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Self-harm is a growing phenomenon in many developing and developed societies. Self-cutting can be treated with the help of professionals.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Values and Character Tagged With: dealing with self-cutting, self-cutting, self-harm, understanding self-harm

Hope in the Cycle of Life

October 17, 2022 By Val Gonzales 6 Comments

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Ground your hope not in things, ranks, or position but in God’s loving presence who declared: “I will never leave you nor forsake you!”

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Understanding Gaslighting and How to Avoid Being Gaslighted

June 16, 2022 By Val Gonzales 2 Comments

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Gaslighting can be found in all life’s areas. It can exist in marriages, workforce, educational institutions, politics, and religious groups.

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Origin, Development, and End of Tyranny – A Psychological Perspective

April 21, 2022 By Val Gonzales 3 Comments

Are there common ingredients in people’s psyche who become tyrants or dictators? This article is an attempt to answer the question.

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Filed Under: Values and Character Tagged With: Bertran Russel, development of tyranny, ending tyranny, insecurity, lack of accountability, origins of tyranny, Psychology of Power

Practice of Integrity

March 3, 2022 By Val Gonzales 8 Comments

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Only when we have integrity will our life’s example become influential to those we have opportunities to influence. Read, pause, reflect.

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Filed Under: Practicing Integrity, Values and Character Tagged With: congruence, discipline, elements of integrity, honesty, undefensiveness

The Blame Game

November 19, 2021 By Val Gonzales Leave a Comment

This article is an attempt to understand the dynamics of blaming. It also endeavors to offer practical suggestions on overcoming the blaming pattern that seems to be pervasive in all of us. 

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Val Gonzales is an educator, minister, psychotherapist, and amateur photographer. He has served in Southeast Asia and North America. He is happily married with two well-adjusted grown-up children.

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  • Mental Illness Realities and Reflections on My Southeast Asia Travel (May-June 2023)
  • Understanding Self-harm and Dealing with It
  • Hope in the Cycle of Life
  • Understanding Gaslighting and How to Avoid Being Gaslighted
  • Origin, Development, and End of Tyranny – A Psychological Perspective
  • Practice of Integrity
  • The Blame Game
  • Adulterated Christianity

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