by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 26, 2020
Some days the tank is completely empty. Not low. Not running on fumes. Flat empty. The kind of tired that sleep does not fix, because it is not physical. It lives somewhere deeper than muscles and rest. It is the weariness of a man who has been carrying things that...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 10, 2020
After almost twenty-two years of helping people heal and rebuild their lives, the most consistent thing I have seen is not addiction or trauma or failed marriages. Those are painful, but they are treatable. The deepest wound I keep encountering is this: people never...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 22, 2019
In college I took an astronomy class, and for fifteen weeks I had to track the exact time of sunrise and sunset every single day. This was before you could pull it up on a phone in two seconds. I literally stood outside all semester, pen and paper in hand, writing...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 8, 2019
A few people have asked about the black necklace I wear. It is a reminder of a poem I first heard more than twenty four years ago, recited from memory by Danny Hamilton, the president of the mission I served for two years in Perth, Australia. I memorized it myself...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 25, 2019
I am saying goodbye to my office this weekend. Excited, but a little reflective as I pack it up and move into a newly renovated suite just down the hall. I have been in this office exactly three years. At my weekly average, that is somewhere around seven thousand...
