by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2021
People can change. I know that because I am one of them, and my starting point was not exactly promising. I grew up in a trailer in the swampy part of Florida. My family ran a commercial blue crab fishing operation, and seafood was on the table most nights not because...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 16, 2020
Emotional reactivity that follows trauma is real. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, devastating losses, catastrophic circumstances, all of that can leave deep marks on how a person responds to the world. I do not minimize that. I have sat with too many people carrying...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 29, 2019
Sometimes you have to quit things. Just do not quit on you. I am not saying a man should never quit anything. I am saying he should never quit trying. There is a world of difference between the two, and confusing them has kept a lot of good men stuck in places that...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 20, 2019
I am alive. This new theme for me was first sparked by one of my clients and then seared into me by something I witnessed this weekend, what I believe was the death of a man at a gas station. It has me reflecting hard on my own mortality, and on the line Maximus...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 20, 2019
I am always wondering why people do what they do. It is just my nature, and after enough years it becomes a kind of reflex. As a therapist and coach, I look at the messes people get into and there is almost always a hidden payoff buried somewhere in the drama. We...
