Keeping Up With Jones: The Lonnie Jones Podcast Adventure

The distance between us and something unpleasant often has an affect on the intensity. This could be a person or an event. Learning to let the unpleasant event, thing or person have a place but making sure that the place has the proper proximity, proportion and perspective is the key to learning to live with or manage those unavoidable events in everyone's lives. Life lived is life learned.  E...

The message was clear and it was on the wall. But the little girl in audience was more concerned with where the message came from than what it actually said. She got lost in the mechanics of the process and totally missed the product--or the lesson. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, License...

There is a count down. Time is running. Time is running out. Just because you can't hear the clock doesn't mean it's not ticking. Don't watch the clock and rush it to be over but don't ignore the fact that it is still ticking. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed P...

When he said, "You're the heavy one..." I was taken aback but could not deny it. I am indeed the large of the two when you encounter Troy and me. I wonder how people describe us when we meet them and interact with them. It's less important how I identify and much more important as to how I am identified. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applic...

I know things that I don't realize. Those things are so obvious they get ignored or at least taken for granted. Every person you see is a person. We know that but it would be much better if we lived with, responded to them having realized that we are, after all, interacting with and encountering real people. Not descriptions, diagnosis or difficulties but people with certain descriptors, diagn...

I didn't know I was hurting people. I knew when people were hurting me and here are three principles to keep it from happening in your life. For the Adler Podcast mentioned in this episode go to: www. YouTube.com/c/LonnieJones, then click playlists, podcasts and Adler. TV #34 This episode was recorded at "The Cozy Little House" airbnb in Dunlap, Tennessee. Life lived is life learned....

It's easy to ignore advice when it's unsolicited, unwanted and unpleasant. Being able to admit that "they" have told you the truth is the difference in being self aware rather than so self absorbed you want to ignore it or dismiss it. This episode was recorded at "The Cozy Little House" airbnb in Dunlap, Tennessee. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts...

It's okay to accept a title. It's okay to refuse a title. Assuming we have good insight and some evidence that goes beyond a self selected or self deceived evidence then it's not really what you are called but what you answer to. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Profes...

Perception does not equal reality. Just because it's "not a thing for you" does not make it not a thing. Our belief in something has not affect on it's authenticity. Our belief only affects our response. 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...

Keeping reminders around that give us comfort or closure is probably a healthy behavior. Reminders that don't bring comfort, closer or serve as a warning to protect us from unhealthy behavior aren't reminders at all; they are roadblocks to forgiveness and reconciliation. You can't move forward until you move to a proper place or simply remove them. Life lived is life learned.  Every ex...

Mechanical Advantage creates unusual power. There are people who for some reason exercise or try to exert unusual power in our lives. In some case this can be detrimental because these individuals are unhealthy or toxic. A possible strategy for dealing with people like this may be to disconnect and not "play the game". By refusing to "play the game" you insure that they don&#39...

What is surrounding you is less important than what is within you. A lesson I learned on a camping trip many years ago. 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://anch...

I drew inspiration from many sources when creating and drawing my own hero. As I grew up I realized I was drawing the hero I grew up with. 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 podc...

Learning to hurt because simply because others hurt is a skill. Oh some people like my mom are naturally empathetic and compassionate but learning to look past the mistakes and failures to simply recognized that someone has fallen is a great skill as we learn to live and serve in a fallen world. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories...

Wise men say only fools rush in...and there you have it. Rushing in, jumping to a conclusion or overreacting will have us not just lost; but lost in the dark. 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 Jed...

My version may not match your vision. The images in your head are not always what I see in my head. To make the vision match the version we need communication. 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 Je...

It wasn't fair. She took all the fun out of my "punishment". She embraced the thing that she'd been running from and took the power out of the slam. 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 Quix...

If we tried to discover what we didn't know instead of assuming that others just didn't know. He thought we had something in common; I thought we had nothing in common...I was wrong. I wish I had been smart enough to know what didn't know that I would later need to know. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the ecle...

It is difficult to be 100% consistent. It is more damaging to be only partially fake. Inconsistent is not the same as hypocritical--one is flawed; the other is fake. 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 Quixo...

The primitive yet sophisticated response that our brains have to trauma may be the link in understanding addictive behavior. The link between the feeling I have when I decide to use, act on my compulsion is stronger than simple brain chemistry. The feeling, decision, similar-same mechanism in the brain is WHY the chemical reaction is so strong...it is not linked to simple pleasure but to survival....

If necessity is the mother of invention then inadequacy may be the catalyst for innovation. Using what we have instead of being stuck lamenting what we don't have. 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...

It's not just knowing that you are at point A and want to get to point B. The trick is knowing what you need to get there or identifying the missing resource(s). A plan or goal without knowing the incremental goals is called a positive fantasy. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed...

A brief, frank discussion regarding suicide. Some thoughts on ideation, intervention and healing. 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/sup...

Anxiety is not the problem.  It's saying that anxiety is a problem.  Anxious is a natural response to a demand for action.  It is interpreted as bad or dysfunctional when often it's only pathological because we've been told it is or we tall ourselves it is. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclec...

Invisibility has two ingredients:  Blend in and do nothing; or Don't stand out and don't do anything that stands out.   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 pod...