Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Setting limits is hard. When someone else’s behavior is impacting your life in a negative way, it can be important to set limits on them for your own protection or to create space to thrive in your own endeavors. This can happen in families, at work, in your community, online, or anywhere. However, the question arises: Should I show some empathy to the person who I am setting limits on? Or even pay extra attention to them? Or emphasize how I respect them? The answer is: It depends. In my book with Ekaterina Ricci, SLIC Solutions for Conflict: Setting Limits…

Another year has come to an end, and another batch of horror movies has been added to the Letterboxd archive. It seems like just yesterday we were disappointed by The Wolf Man but inspired by Sinners.  Rinse and repeat, as 2026 already looks like a bumper crop of horror movies that will make our “most anticipated” lists (there’s always one on their that disappoints). Another Evil Dead? Yes, please. A Silent Hill reboot? We’ll take it. Ghostface returning to Woodsboro? What took them so long? Below is a list of notable 2026 horror movie releases, along with their trailers if…

The world feels heavy right now. Many people are moving through their days out of alignment, exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure about how to make sense of a time that feels shadowed by despair. With so much pain, ill-being, and relentless challenge, we’re witnessing a collective weariness that’s impacting our mental, emotional, and societal well-being. Conflict and division are deepening. The future feels uncertain. If you’ve turned on the news recently, you understand this. People are more connected than ever and yet feel increasingly isolated. Mental health challenges are escalating, even as access to information grows. Many feel that the education,…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said President Trump’s voters may be an issue for the Republican Party during next year’s midterms because this “big pool” of people may not show up to vote without him on the ballot.  “I think Republicans have an issue that Donald Trump has created a big pool of voters, but…

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Redshirt senior Ty Clemons from the football team and senior Michaela O’Connor from the lacrosse team were recognized as 2025 Food Lion Community MVPs, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced. The Food Lion Community MVP honors student-athletes that demonstrate outstanding skills in coordinating and motivating community-based initiatives to improve our local towns and cities. Forty ACC student-athletes were honored in total. Clemons’ commitment to uplifting the youth and strengthening his community has not wavered since the moment he stepped on campus. Through his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, he helped launch “Pie a Que,” a fundraiser supporting local youth…

December is upon us, which means it’s time to discuss holiday horror! I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t offer you a bit of gastro horror tidings to get through this month! This really should come as no surprise given that the late autumn and early winter holidays are known for their use of food as a means to celebrate. There are specific traditions for each. On Thanksgiving we eat turkey, Hanukkah celebrations are made better with latkes (Team Sour Cream here), and with Christmas you have all sorts of food traditions depending on where you celebrate. One of my…

Nine conference title games are on tap for next weekend, highlighted by a showdown between No. 1 and No. 2 in the country.College football fans, rejoice. Let’s check out the odds for each conference championship game at DraftKings Sportsbook as of Dec. 5.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on FOX Sports.FRIDAY, DEC. 5Conference USAKennesaw State @ Jacksonville StateSpread: Kennesaw State -2.5Moneyline: Kennesaw State -135, Kennesaw State +114O/U: 60.5Sun BeltTroy @ No. 25 James MadisonSpread: JMU -23.5Moneyline: JMU -3200,…

An article in the journal Addiction recently grabbed my attention.[i] In “Daily or near-daily cannabis and alcohol use by adults in the United States,” Jonathan Caulkins reported that 2022 marked the year daily, or near-daily (i.e., at least 20 days each month), cannabis users outnumbered daily, or near-daily, alcohol users for the first time. While the total number of Americans consuming alcohol is still greater than those using cannabis, heavy users of each tells a different story. An estimated 17.7 million Americans use cannabis every day, or nearly every day, while 14.7 million use alcohol at the same frequency. This…

Animal videos are a popular genre on social media and online video platforms. Whose day isn’t brightened by seeing an adorable dog or cat doing something cute? But many of these videos unfortunately involve harms for the animals shown in them, according to new research published in Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (Kühnöhl et al 2025). The scientists did a detailed examination of 162 popular videos from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It’s important to note that the videos were chosen because they were popular and they seemed to show a potential risk to the dog or cat, but they…

Lately, wherever I go—in public spaces, community settings, even family gatherings—I hear a version of the same sentence: “Everything feels heavy.” As a new year begins, many people are doing what we often do at this time—taking stock, setting intentions, hoping for some sense of reset. And yet, instead of feeling renewed, many describe a quiet form of exhaustion. What I hear is not only fear or sadness, but something more unsettling: uncertainty about whether anything they do still makes a difference. That sense of heaviness is closely tied to what psychologists call mattering—feeling valued and knowing that what you…