Jordan Stones Blog

Let me begin by introducing you to one of my personal favorite emotional coping tricks.  Prayer Pictures.   What is a Prayer Picture? A Prayer Picture is a term I coined to mean an image or symbol, representing a bigger, more complex or powerful insight that came to you at some point. One of those…an “oh, that is good!” moments or one line from a podcast or a book that was just for you and you know you are going to need it in the future.   When we are on the fly we are zipping through appointments and classes and shopping and relating and debating and carpooling and deal making and number crunching...whatever fills your hustle.  It is my experience that it is pretty near impossible to pull down a complex psychosocial/psychospiritual clarity or coping mechanism on the go.  Our brains are built to serve us on the fly and put us in a sympathetic chemical (autopilot) brain atmosphere.  When we are there, automatic reaction mostly determines choices, b...

Beloveds, as 2022 greets us with all of its yet to be seen highs and lows lying in wait, what better to chew on than discernment?  Tooling up for what lies ahead is so behooving. It is one of my jams.  I only published one blog and email in 2021…you can read between the lines and infer what sort of year it was for me!  Probably like many of you. I did write a good bit in 2021 though and so have some good words in the cue to meet you with this year.  It feels so right.  Thank you for a place to share what is on my heart.   In order to do this, let me introduce you to a new service brought to you exclusively by Jordan Stones Counseling...JS Blink List.   Blink list is an app I found a couple of years ago that takes those books that you really have to read, but you don’t ever seem to get to  (for example “7 Habits of Highly Successful People”).  Blink list doses these books down to 15 minutes or so of the critical content for your fas...