by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 28, 2024
The world has never been kind to men. And it never will be. That’s not a complaint. That’s not a cry for sympathy. That’s just the truth, and the sooner you accept it, the sooner you can stop waiting for permission to get moving. Men are expected to...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 21, 2024
I’ll be straight with you. I drank six times over a three-year stretch. That’s not a success story in the traditional sense. I’m not standing on a stage with a chip and a perfectly clean record. And I’m not going to pretend otherwise, because...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 25, 2024
Life feels like a fatal process sometimes. There’s no way around that. People, places, and things carve canyons into us in the violent rumbling of whatever is going on inside. Losses that feel permanent. Relationships that end. Seasons of pain so long and so...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 17, 2023
There are people in my life right now who are carrying things I would not wish on anyone. And I am writing this for them. I think about the man being torn apart in family court over circumstances that have nothing to do with what kind of father he is. The woman who...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 11, 2023
Confront your shame head-on. It does not matter how it got there or who put it there. It is yours now. And the only way out runs straight through it, not around it. A lot of people have a hard time with that framing because it sounds like victim-blaming. It is not....
