Keeping Up With Jones: The Lonnie Jones Podcast Adventure

Attention, Belonging and Support. It's not what you owe someone or someone owes you but what you owe yourself. That becomes an investment in "US". Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic J...

The power of not just little things but little gestures. Things I can do and you can't or just things I can do for others. With guest comments by Indy the Spanish Water Dog. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusia...

The difference in diagnosing a delusion or deception is in discerning the distress. The history and differential associated with gender dysphoria. Criteria: Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults 1 A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least six months’ duration, as manifested by at least two or more of the following: • A marked incongruenc...

To flip or flip out is not something to be decided flippantly. There is such a thing as spiritual abuse and that table needs to be flipped. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this p...

The meanings we apply to things stick with us. The things we say are often the things that stick with other people. How did they or we get that idea? Well something we said stuck with them. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outd...

Having been hurt and wounded is not permission to live hurt and wounded. You might not be the only hurt person at the table, in the room or on the campus. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.  ...

It's really not about what you drive. It's more about what drives you. Don't focus on the external but on the internal...beacause that will be eternal. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Su...

One of these things is not like the other...even though they have a lot in common similar does not equal same. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/l...

We are multifaceted creatures. We must engage in four aspects in order to function optimally. Sometimes we get so tired we give up one for the other and that can spell disaster. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusia...

Perfect does not mean flawless but rather complete. You can't measure complete unless you experience the whole gambit of life. Loosing may be part of being perfect. That's less about how the game turned out and more about how the players turned out. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, License...

Doing what we've always done or what we were just doing is how habits, traditions and unhealthy rituals differ from reasoned practiced protocols. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support...

They tell us it looks like this and it sounds like that; but what they have lead us to expect and what the truth is are often very different. The truth is that if it sounds easy... Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthu...

If you knew, if you could see the bigger picture you might do or not do but only IF you knew. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/suppo...

The response that ends all responses is called "shut up juice". It can be deeds or words but often it is the last word. God has the last word...it is rarely "shut up" but it does tend to shut us up if we understand "Peace, Be Still". Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional C...

There are pairs of things that force a choice or just are a choice. The difference in success, failure, contentment, resentment, fulfillment or emptiness...lie in the choice. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast...

Our pursuits are based in our desires. Our desires are the basis for tempting us--or hunting us. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/su...

Decisions are based on values not outcomes or consequences--real or imagined. Running from imagined fears, negative fantasies can cause more harm than you can imagine. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Qui...

You have restrictions. We all do. maybe we can be freed from them, free ourselves of them or just be free to change how we live with them. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this po...

They fail because they are made wrong or used wrong. In that case we need a failsafe. We need something that does not fail. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https:...

The key to raising anti fragile children or becoming anti fragile adults is not found in Murphy's Law nor Finagle's law but in living in discovery mode...Let's try it and see what happens. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Cha...

We all wear labels. Some are believable some are not believable. Some should not be believed. The choice is in knowing where the label comes from. If you accept the wrong one or ignore the right one then it really is too bad for you. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional C...

In a hospital bed late at night I saw what looked like Darth Vader and began to think about the things we might have in common... Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at...

Rats can't read waring labels and eat all kinds of things that will kill them. We don't have the same excuse. We have clear warnings as to what is toxic to our lives and souls and we "swallow" it anyway. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Mi...

It doesn't matter what you are being dragged into or in front of...true friends don't ditch their friends or hide in ditches. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast...

The caption may have your name and read "Not Pictured". That doesn't mean the thing didn't happen. It means you missed it. Just because you weren't there doesn't mean it won't happen. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister,...