by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 2, 2023
I used to despise how I looked. I avoided photos at all costs and hated every single one I was in. And here is the thing that still gets me: I felt that way even when I was 200 pounds, 20 years old, and in peak physical condition. I hated myself when I had every...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 7, 2022
One Monday night, one of our teenage boys ran away. In those first hours you tell yourself he is probably with friends, just blowing off steam, that he will be back soon. But as the hours stretch into evening and then past midnight, the story you are telling yourself...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 26, 2022
Someone was in my garage at four in the morning. They also tried the bathroom window a few feet from where my wife and I were sleeping. My security system was not armed. I had left doors unlocked. In a gated community in a decent part of Las Vegas, someone got close...
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 | Feb 9, 2021
I wanted girls too. I just did not get any. And now, having raised six boys, I am not sure I would have known what to do with a daughter anyway. Boys I understand. Boys I can work with. And these six have made me want to be better every single day. Fatherhood is the...
