by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 7, 2022
One Monday night, one of our teenage boys ran away. In those first hours you tell yourself he is probably with friends, just blowing off steam, that he will be back soon. But as the hours stretch into evening and then past midnight, the story you are telling yourself...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 18, 2022
There is an old saying that goes roughly like this: ignore the warning, experience the consequence. I have lived that particular lesson more times than I care to count. And what I have learned from all of it is not that life is cruel or unfair. It is that the...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 4, 2022
The day comes for every man when he looks around at his life and feels like something is missing that should be there. He feels owed. He feels like the universe has not been fair. Maybe it has not been. But before you take that complaint to the bench, you need to know...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 14, 2022
I have carried resentment and I have carried forgiveness. I know what both feel like in the body, in the mind, in the long, quiet hours of a night when you cannot sleep. There is no comparison. The weight of unforgiven offenses is suffocating in a way that compounds...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 26, 2022
Someone was in my garage at four in the morning. They also tried the bathroom window a few feet from where my wife and I were sleeping. My security system was not armed. I had left doors unlocked. In a gated community in a decent part of Las Vegas, someone got close...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 15, 2021
Nobody gets sober by himself. I don’t care how strong you are, how determined you feel on day one, or how many times you’ve white-knuckled it solo before. Recovery is a contact sport, and the men who make it are the ones who let someone else into the fight...
