by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 17, 2024
You don’t always get what you ask for, but you almost never get what you don’t. Read that again. Let it land. Because most of us are filtering our words, softening our needs, swallowing our real thoughts, all in the name of keeping the peace or not rocking...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 12, 2024
One spring break morning, I was sitting with my eight-year-old at a McDonald’s playland. He was showing me something cool he’d figured out about Nike shoes. No matter how you toss one, no matter what angle it leaves your hand or how many times it tumbles...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 5, 2024
I don’t love everything about social work. The bureaucracy, the paperwork, the politics of it, the way the system sometimes gets in the way of the people it’s supposed to serve. There are real frustrations in this profession that nobody talks about in the...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 15, 2024
I run six men’s groups, each with six or more men. One evening, after a quick dinner at home, I spent two hours with five young guys in one of those groups. It was only the second meeting of this particular group, and these guys were twenty to twenty-four years...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 27, 2024
I hear people say it all the time: apologies are meaningless, changed behavior is all that matters. And I understand where that comes from. Words without action are hollow. Saying sorry and doing the same thing again the next day is not an apology, it’s a ritual...
