by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 4, 2023
We are often more confident than we are correct. Read that again slowly. Most people will agree with it in the abstract and then immediately exempt themselves from it in practice. That is the trap, and it is one of the most common traps I see men fall into in my work....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Sep 28, 2023
If I had to identify a single thing that makes relationships actually work, it comes down to this: she has to be able to feel and express her emotions fully, and he has to be able to hold that without falling apart or shutting it down. That is it. That is the whole...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 12, 2023
People ask me all the time how I carry the weight of other people’s problems without getting crushed by it. The honest answer is that I don’t carry it alone, and I don’t carry it blind. I help people move through it, and then they get better. That is...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 18, 2022
There is an old saying that goes roughly like this: ignore the warning, experience the consequence. I have lived that particular lesson more times than I care to count. And what I have learned from all of it is not that life is cruel or unfair. It is that the...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 14, 2022
I have carried resentment and I have carried forgiveness. I know what both feel like in the body, in the mind, in the long, quiet hours of a night when you cannot sleep. There is no comparison. The weight of unforgiven offenses is suffocating in a way that compounds...
