by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 15, 2019
Over a twenty year career of helping people, I have come to believe two things are required to be genuinely happy. Gratitude and hustle. Are there other ingredients? Surely. But I have never once met a deeply happy person who was not doing both of these at the same...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 8, 2019
Today a client cancelled, so I had a few unexpected minutes, and for once I lay down on my own therapy couch. People do not really do that anymore, lie still with their own thoughts and no screen to escape into. Today I did. I figured I would take a quick nap....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 6, 2019
Time to produce. I cannot wait to get back with my tribe of brothers tonight to record a couple of podcast episodes. It has been three weeks, and I miss their dumb jokes and the way they keep me locked in on what I am actually supposed to be doing. Because here is a...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 6, 2019
Inactivity makes anxiety worse. I have lived it, so this is not theory to me. There is almost nothing more painful than sitting still with your worry, your fear, and the physical tension your own body is generating with nowhere to send it. You sit there marinating in...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 6, 2019
I am writing this from a quiet room, lying down, just listening to music. We are so busy, all of us. We pack our minds with noise and negativity from the moment we wake up until the moment we finally pass out. I have not watched the news in about two years. Instead, I...