by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 27, 2024
Twelve years ago I checked myself into a hospital. I was on multiple substances, I was in continuous suicidal pain, and I had a method in my truck. That is not a story I tell lightly. I tell it because someone needs to hear it from a real person who lived through it....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 19, 2024
I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 17, 2024
I see it in my office almost every day. Two people sitting across from each other, and between them a wall that neither one fully understands. He’s either shut down or pushing too hard. She’s closed off, defensive, unreachable. And they’re both...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 14, 2024
If I know how to love anything or anyone at all, I learned it from watching two specific people do it for their entire lives. They’ve been doing it since 1964, which means they’ve been at this longer than most people have been alive. She was 17. They...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2024
I have failed at this. More times than I want to count. So when I say this, I’m not talking down from some high ground I’ve always occupied. I’m talking from the mess I’ve made when I missed it. Women often lead with the surface layer. What...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 9, 2024
I sat with someone recently who had tried to save a life and couldn’t. The guilt was overwhelming. The second-guessing was relentless. Every moment they’d spent trying to help was being run back through a filter of “what if I had done it...
