by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 2, 2021
Fourteen years sober. That is not a small number. That is years of meetings, of honesty, of grinding through the days when the craving felt like a physical thing sitting on your chest. And then a rough enough season arrived that I convinced myself the only way through...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 21, 2021
There is a man in your life who is getting it done as a dad every single day, and nobody is making a big deal about it. He is not going viral. He is not on a magazine cover. He is just in it, grinding through the ordinary heroics of fatherhood without applause or...
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 | 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...
