by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Sep 11, 2026
A man sat on my couch and told me he was done. Selling the house. Quitting the job. Moving to Mexico. Fresh start, clean slate, new country, new man. I asked him one question. When was the last time you told your wife you were unhappy? He looked at the floor for a...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 16, 2024
Fighting your day is exhausting, and most of the time you lose anyway. The bad driver who cuts you off, the meeting that runs long, the plan that falls apart before noon. You can rage against all of it, or you can decide to move with it instead of against it....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 27, 2024
Twelve years ago I checked myself into a hospital. I was on multiple substances, I was in continuous suicidal pain, and I had a method in my truck. That is not a story I tell lightly. I tell it because someone needs to hear it from a real person who lived through it....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 19, 2024
I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 7, 2024
You are talking to yourself constantly. Right now, actually. There’s a voice running in the background of everything you do, every decision you make, every mistake you notice. That voice has been there your entire life. And for most people, it is not kind. Most...