WHO IS BEHIND THIS
Ricardo De Castro King
Psychologist, university lecturer and the person behind MomentoVital.
“Sometimes healing isn’t letting go. It’s learning to carry.”
Ricardo De Castro King, on LinkedIn (2026, translated from Spanish)
Why this space exists
There are moments when life shifts out of place: a breakup, a loss, a move to another country, a stage in which you no longer recognize yourself. MomentoVital brings together readings and activities for those moments, so you can find words for what you are living and move forward at your own pace, without labels or hurry.
How he understands change
His outlook comes from systemic family therapy: deep change rarely arrives through formulas. It usually comes when you understand what purpose your experience served and how it is woven into your relationships and your story. That is why you will not find five-step recipes here, but questions, clear explanations and small practices to help your own process move.
Where this outlook comes from
- 16 years as a university psychology lecturer, alongside young people training to care for others.
- He took part in research on how people in Latin America lived through the pandemic and what psycho-spiritual and grief care they needed (Cultura y Religión, 2022).
- His master’s thesis listened to families living with a chronic illness (Universidad Simón Bolívar, 2020).
- He has taken these topics to regional television: on Telecaribe he spoke about surrounding young people facing mental health difficulties with love (Consultorio Jurídico, 2023).
- He was a workshop leader and speaker in training programs for public and private companies (2011–2019).
He is a licensed psychologist in Colombia (professional license 106127, COLPSIC), with a degree and a master’s from Universidad Simón Bolívar. His academic work is listed on PsiqueAcadémica.
What you can expect
These guides are educational. Questionnaires can help you reflect on your experience, but they do not establish a diagnosis. An activity on a website does not replace a professional assessment or ongoing care.
Where a page cites research, you can consult the references and distinguish general information from a recommendation for your own circumstances.
How we make MomentoVital
MomentoVital is led by Ricardo, but he does not write every line himself. Three rules are non-negotiable: every academic citation is checked against its source (author, year and DOI) before publishing; no personal experience is attributed to Ricardo unless he wrote it; and the named cases on some pages are illustrative and labelled as such.
In November 2026 we reviewed the site against those rules: we replaced texts that were not good enough, corrected misattributed references and unified crisis support so it works for readers in any country. When an error is found, the page is corrected and its date is updated.