My name is Arturo and I am loved by God and in response to that I best serve others by adding VALUE to their lives. My goal is to enrich lives, relationships, and communities.
From an artistic standpoint I’m a visual communicator and via the use of photography I seek promote beauty, concepts, and messages. Spiritually speaking I've served as a chaplain at a addiction/recovery rehabilitation center, and before that as a youth pastor, missionary, and Young Life/Club Beyond staff for many years here in the USA and abroad.
On the mental health side I currently serve as a life coach, certified addiction recovery specialist, and marriage and family counselor.
This past weekend my daughters convinced me to watch the highly acclaimed movie La La Land starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and directed by Damien Chazelle. Music has always been a part of our home culture and the sales pitch was that ‘there’s lots of music and I’d like
Read More
Option 2: Explain and identify communication processes as they occur in marriage. Identify and discuss how marital rules link with marital communication, conflict, and marital functioning. Discuss how you would assess marital
This past week was about my 10th time shooting weddings. Shooting as
(The following post is a 800+ words paper I needed to submit
This 2019 I set out to read 24 books ranging from spirituality to decision-making. In this post I’d like to list all 24 with my impressions on each one of
Read More
These are the book I read this 2015 listed chronologically: Outliers Tribes The G0-Giver Go-Givers Sell More Drive Selling with Purpose The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster Purple Cow Vanishing Grace Scary Close Getting
Read More
Relationships are complicated. Growing up, even in Latin America, I was very familiar with the complicated relationship between “those nice guys” and the elusive girl who kept falling for the “other guys.”
Read More
I used to live the dream life. Big house, two cars, a motorcycle (Ninja 250), great job and an even better community. I got to come home and kiss my wife, wrestle
Read More
This past week Tracy and the kids left to go visit relatives in north Georgia for the weekend and, since I had to stay and do some work, I couldn’t go with
Read More