by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 27, 2020
Let me say something that might rub some guys the wrong way: men need men, possibly even more than they need women. That is not a knock on women. It is a recognition that there is a specific, irreplaceable kind of sharpening that happens between men who are honest...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 10, 2020
After almost twenty-two years of helping people heal and rebuild their lives, the most consistent thing I have seen is not addiction or trauma or failed marriages. Those are painful, but they are treatable. The deepest wound I keep encountering is this: people never...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 16, 2020
Emotional reactivity that follows trauma is real. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, devastating losses, catastrophic circumstances, all of that can leave deep marks on how a person responds to the world. I do not minimize that. I have sat with too many people carrying...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 7, 2020
Inactivity and anxiety are a terrible combination. Sitting still with worry and fear and the physical tension that anxiety generates is one of the most uncomfortable experiences a person can have. The thoughts race, the chest tightens, the stomach turns, and because...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 22, 2019
In college I took an astronomy class, and for fifteen weeks I had to track the exact time of sunrise and sunset every single day. This was before you could pull it up on a phone in two seconds. I literally stood outside all semester, pen and paper in hand, writing...
