Archive for May, 2010

Several months ago, just prior to a retreat we were facilitating, I was guided to get new rocks for The Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel. With 46 stones in all, I knew I’d be making a trip to a local landscaping company and was thrilled to see endless palettes with every kind of stone you could imagine. [Continue]

It’s been a little over three years since my prostate cancer surgery and the ED that came in its wake. Being a cancer survivor for this duration has added more than a little perspective as to where I’ve been and where I’m heading. [Continue]

Butch Hovis reflects on the broader aspects of this Memorial Day Weekend and invites us to look beyond those whom we may be honoring by habit to a much vaster array of persons caught up in even more challenging threats than the loss of flesh and blood. [Continue]

In this last installment of five articles focusing on reconciliation and forgiveness, Les discusses the role that asking for forgiveness plays in completing the process that turns a failure (no matter how grave) into a successful growth experience, leading to a deep sense of strength and peace on an intellectual, emotional and (most importantly) a [Continue]

The months of May and June with graduations, marriages, moving in and out of dorm rooms, and the whole progression of advancing to the next grade, my mind turns toward transitioning. [Continue]

Do you remember that 60’s song “I’ve got that joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart! Where? Down in my heart. Yes, down in my heart!” One organist had to play an hour of Bach to get it out of his mind. Butch Hovis invites you to consider the joy in your heart, perhaps on a deeper level, and how it is or is not the focus and center of your [Continue]

Prostate cancer treatment effects such as ED and a reduced libido may decrease or even eliminate sex (intercourse). But friendships help soften the blow and avoid a spiritual/emotional crisis. [Continue]

One of the most pervasive obstacles we face in transcending limitation is in our perception of possibility and potential. [Continue]

The fourth article in this series of "Cleaning Up Your Wreckage" takes on the deepest levels of pain that we experience from messing up. It's a pain beyond the embarrassment, guilt and even shame of experiencing our fallibility. It comes from recognizing that, from now on, we have to see and to do things differently. [Continue]

The call of the soul comes in many different ways. Sometimes it is a dramatic experience of revelation. It can be a deep inner knowing. And, the soul can call to you through feelings, life circumstances, illness, injury, friends, mates, and children. [Continue]