by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jul 1, 2020
I played football from age seven all the way through college and even a short run on a semi-pro team before my third major knee injury shut it down for good. And in all those years on the field, the most sacred twenty minutes of any game was halftime. Not because it...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 7, 2020
Inactivity and anxiety are a terrible combination. Sitting still with worry and fear and the physical tension that anxiety generates is one of the most uncomfortable experiences a person can have. The thoughts race, the chest tightens, the stomach turns, and because...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 22, 2019
In college I took an astronomy class, and for fifteen weeks I had to track the exact time of sunrise and sunset every single day. This was before you could pull it up on a phone in two seconds. I literally stood outside all semester, pen and paper in hand, writing...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 29, 2019
Sometimes you have to quit things. Just do not quit on you. I am not saying a man should never quit anything. I am saying he should never quit trying. There is a world of difference between the two, and confusing them has kept a lot of good men stuck in places that...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 8, 2019
A few people have asked about the black necklace I wear. It is a reminder of a poem I first heard more than twenty four years ago, recited from memory by Danny Hamilton, the president of the mission I served for two years in Perth, Australia. I memorized it myself...
