Choosing not to is just as much freedom as being able to. The freedom without the discipline and discernment may be freedom but it isn't smart. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006. Please ...
Jul 08, 2025•23 min•Season 5Ep. 49
Fixed patterns of behavior are responses that can't be controlled. But we can learn to control our response to the responses. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006. Please follow us and shar...
Jul 01, 2025•28 min•Season 5Ep. 45
It's not that you are the only one who has ever been there, through there or ended up there. But it is up to you to decide if "there" is your story or just the background to your story. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-1...
Jun 24, 2025•17 min•Season 5Ep. 44
The head coach at our high school used to say that "men don't run in the rain". I think what he meant was you don't let a little thing like rain dictate how you carry yourself. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use ...
Jun 17, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 46
The strange thing about our "strangeness" is it just may be that the very thing we think makes us vulnerable actually makes us functional. Change how you view it and change how you use it. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jone...
Jun 10, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 45
"He chose...poorly" is apt only if there is a good choice. Dilemmas occur when there are only poor choices. But to be caught in a dilemma one has to choose poorly in order to create the dilemma. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonni...
Jun 03, 2025•34 min•Season 5Ep. 44
If you know how to do it it looks easy. If you know someone who knows how to make it look easy then you should use their experience to gain experience. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.s...
May 27, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 43
Waiting to die. That's what he said he was doing. Waiting to die. It may have been because his life was full or fulfilled but I had the sense that it was because he thought it was empty and there was nothing left. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonn...
May 20, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 42
"If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done or in a way you've never done it." That's the difference in solving a problem and getting past a problem. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/suppo...
May 13, 2025•25 min•Season 5Ep. 41
Dessert and desert (the action not the dry place) sound the same. But when she brought up the dessert she was making sure her husband wasn't going to desert her. What I say and how I say it may not be as important as what we hear and what we are listening for... Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jed...
May 06, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 40
What's on your heart gets talked about. It shows up everywhere. It's what get broadcast. Conversational Spirituality and how and when I learned it from Chad Smith. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://...
Apr 29, 2025•25 min•Season 5Ep. 35
What's thrown at you is not as important as who is with you. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support Please subscribe and share. Want lonnie to speak a...
Apr 22, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 38
What we believe affects what we see more than what we see affects what we believe...or at least what we want to believe affects what we want to see. What we want to see...what we are looking for affects what we believe. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.f...
Apr 15, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 33
You can live with the earthworm perspective or you can live and make choices form a different point of view. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support Pl...
Apr 08, 2025•17 min•Season 5Ep. 36
But they said...Or I thought they said...I thought they meant...are not the basis for justifying any of our actions. Words my influence but they do not cause behavior. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:http...
Apr 01, 2025•23 min•Season 5Ep. 35
Our design is for not just for balance for regaining our balance. We possess the capacity for failure but not permanent failure. We are designed to to stay down--we are not designed to stay down. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support -...
Mar 25, 2025•18 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Experience is knowing how it feels to be in a certain situation and knowing how it feels to be helped. Experience is learning not to pay back but to pay forward...probably not pay but give. Experience is not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixo...
Mar 18, 2025•22 min•Season 5Ep. 33
Assuming I live or lived to March 10 I will be 62. It's the age my grandfather was when he died. The legacy he left me was the deep understanding that I was deeply, truly, loved. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this p...
Mar 11, 2025•20 min•Season 5Ep. 32
Things look different depending on the backdrop. Beige can look white--until you see it in the snow. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support Please sub...
Mar 04, 2025•25 min•Season 5Ep. 31
Avoidance is not avoidance. It's just a delay. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support Please subscribe and share. Want lonnie to speak at yourevent? C...
Feb 25, 2025•21 min•Season 5Ep. 30
The question sometimes is not about our talent. It's not really about our job. It is often simply about our opportunity. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jone...
Feb 18, 2025•21 min•Season 5Ep. 29
It looks real. It sounds the same...sort of. But artificial snow is just that...artificial. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications. These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support Please subscribe an...
Feb 11, 2025•21 min•Season 5Ep. 28
There is what we think is right or how things work and then there is the right way. Loosing control to get control. Is that how that works? Try it. 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/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.sp...
Feb 04, 2025•19 min•Season 5Ep. 27
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 Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spo...
Jan 28, 2025•28 min•Season 5Ep. 26
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 Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podc...
Jan 21, 2025•24 min•Season 5Ep. 25
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 incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (or in...
Jan 14, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 24
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 podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.co...
Jan 07, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 23
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, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- S...
Dec 31, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 22
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. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcas...
Dec 24, 2024•21 min•Season 5Ep. 21
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. Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcaster...
Dec 17, 2024•22 min•Season 5Ep. 20
