by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 6, 2026
A man sat across from me and listed everything he was owed. A wife who appreciated him. Parents who showed up when he was ten. A boss with eyes. A body that didn’t ache getting out of bed. One run of luck that finally broke his way instead of over his head. He...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jul 29, 2026
She’s been going for six minutes. The story keeps shifting. Half the details are wrong. A third of it happened in 2019. She just contradicted something she said ninety seconds ago and she didn’t even notice. And you’re sitting there building your...
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...
