by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 9, 2021
I wanted girls too. I just did not get any. And now, having raised six boys, I am not sure I would have known what to do with a daughter anyway. Boys I understand. Boys I can work with. And these six have made me want to be better every single day. Fatherhood is the...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 9, 2020
I am going to tell you why therapy did not work the last time you tried it. It probably had very little to do with the therapist. It did not matter where they went to school, how long they had been licensed, whether they were an intern or a twenty-year veteran, what...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 8, 2020
I have so many defects of character that it is embarrassing. I know what most of them are. And someday soon I am going to sit down and list every single one of them on paper, talk them over with someone I trust, and look at them without flinching. That is not a...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 21, 2020
I am thankful for myself. I know how that sounds. But stay with me, because this is one of the most important things I have learned in forty-five years of living, and it took most of those years to figure out. Of course there are people I love and cherish and feel...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 26, 2020
Some days the tank is completely empty. Not low. Not running on fumes. Flat empty. The kind of tired that sleep does not fix, because it is not physical. It lives somewhere deeper than muscles and rest. It is the weariness of a man who has been carrying things that...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jul 16, 2020
The smartest guy in the room is often the most dangerous one, especially when he’s wrong and doesn’t know it. Most men have a reflex built into them from the time they were boys: protect the position, defend the call, never back down. And for a while, that...
