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 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...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 17, 2024
You don’t always get what you ask for, but you almost never get what you don’t. Read that again. Let it land. Because most of us are filtering our words, softening our needs, swallowing our real thoughts, all in the name of keeping the peace or not rocking...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 28, 2024
The world has never been kind to men. And it never will be. That’s not a complaint. That’s not a cry for sympathy. That’s just the truth, and the sooner you accept it, the sooner you can stop waiting for permission to get moving. Men are expected to...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 23, 2024
We don’t just hide our indulgent behaviors. That would be manageable enough. What we actually hide is deeper and more damaging: who we are, what we’ve experienced, what we feel, what we need. We keep the real stuff locked up and call it protection. We tell...
