Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

I was sitting in my eye doctor’s waiting room when my smartphone rang. The call was from a British scientist I’d known for a while. He’d recently asked to read a manuscript for a book I’d written that was coming out later that year. If he could read it in advance, he’d told me, he could offer feedback. Usually, I wouldn’t show anyone my unpublished work, but his offer seemed genuine and well meant, and I’d sent it to him a week or so earlier. What science writer doesn’t want feedback from a scientist? It could only make my work…

The slithery antagonist of 1991’s “Alligator II: The Mutation.”The unsung Alligator II: The Mutation is a surprisingly strong sequelAlligator II: The Mutation is one of those horror sequels that’s easy to forget about. It came out in 1991 (when mainstream horror was in a major transition period) and was a follow-up to a movie that came out ELEVEN years earlier. The people who made Alligator II weren’t exactly striking while the iron was hot — so you can see why so many viewers (then and today) might be a little hesitant heading into it.But writing off The Mutation as another…

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The rising popularity and public awareness of consensual nonmonogamies is a double-edged sword for many people in CNM relationships. On the one hand, more public awareness translates to greater discrimination because some people view CNM as a rising threat. On the other hand, the significant upswing in public awareness and number of people engaging in CNM means that more people are advocating for equal rights and protection against discrimination. Currently there are no legal protections at the federal or state level for CNM relationships or for many other forms of relationship diversity. Discrimination My own and many others’ research has…

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What comes to mind when you think of the word Mindfulness?For most people, the word conjures images of silent retreats, 30-minute morning meditations, and a life unhurried enough to actually do them.For the overwhelming majority of professionals we work with – the ones running between back-to-back meetings, raising children, managing teams, and quietly fraying at the edges – Mindfulness can feel like one more on their never-ending to-do list.Here’s what we want you to know: you don’t need minutes. You only need moments.Micro-mindfulness, the practice of embedding brief, intentional awareness into the ordinary seams of your day, is not a…

If we do a google search for leadership traits we will find endless lists: 10 qualities of a leader; 16 leadership characteristics; 12 necessary leadership traits; 6 characteristics of an effective leader; and endless other links providing somewhere between 3 and 101 crucial traits for leaders. So, what do we do with all of that? One problem is that some of these lists confuse traits with skills, but even when we remove skills from the lists, we are still left with a bigger problem: These lists assume leadership is about collecting the right traits. But leadership doesn’t work that way.…

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The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have lived with their pain for decades while their complaints were ignored or sidelined by various law enforcement bodies. The effects of trauma do not have an expiration date. It can rear its head at any time, triggered by a song, a scent, an unexpected encounter with the past—putting us right back in the terrifying moment. The trauma of sexual abuse in adolescence lives on in sudden triggering moments, but it is also never entirely absent from the daily experience of self. Some of the adolescent victims of Jeffrey Epstein were as young as 13…

“Evil Dead Burn unleashes the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date, blazing onto big screens with an all-new chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem. After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.” Directed by Sébastien Vaniček and starring Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Errol Shand, Maude Davey, George Pullar, Greta Van Den Brink…