Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

“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…

The fire and the phone call came within the same week. A coaching client of mine, let’s call her Helen, had spent nearly two decades in corporate life before doing something brave. She left to build her own consultancy. She was in the middle of that reinvention when a house fire took almost everything she owned. Many of her contacts were laid off, business leads dried up, and budgets froze as companies feared a recession and the impact of a prolonged war in the Middle East. The future she had been carefully building simply disappeared. Two crises, back-to-back. If you…

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Quiet Is Not Always Safety In moments of crisis, schools reach for what works, whatever quiets disruption fast and makes the numbers look better. I understand that impulse from both sides of the desk. I have been the principal making the call when a campus is rattled, and everyone wants certainty by morning. I have also been the consultant brought in after the fact, when referrals are up, adults are exhausted, and the students everyone is worried about are either exploding or disappearing. And I have lived through what happens when systems confuse quiet with safety. Sometimes behavior improves because…

One of the many activities children and teenagers enjoy doing throughout their childhood is listening to music. Music is an outlet while children and adolescents are growing up, and can especially be a healthy and positive coping outlet when they are trying to navigate the death of their parent. Music can be a beneficial form of therapy in sessions with clinicians as well. The death of a parent is one of the hardest life situations a child or teenager can be forced to navigate. Trying to find comforting and positive outlets is key, as there will be a wide range…

Just 48 players had ever managed an on-base streak of at least 50 games entering the 2026 season, but Shohei Ohtani made that 49. The Dodgers’ two-way superstar, through Apr. 20, has now reached base in 52 consecutive games, by either a walk or a hit, after a third inning single off Jose Quintana against the Rockies on Apr. 20.The streak began on Aug. 24, 2025, and through Apr. 19 Ohtani had hit .281/.399/.597 with 55 hits — 16 of them home runs — 37 walks, eight intentional free passes and three hit by pitches. On Monday in the series…

One of the challenges that analytic writers have with sharing their ideas about serious mental health diagnoses with a lay audience is that many parents of those with diagnoses of mental illness may be part of that audience. Those family members are trying to learn more about their child’s illness, and are often desperate for new perspectives. However, from a psychoanalytic perspective, there is no way to talk about more serious psychiatric presentations without taking into account a patient’s childhood difficulties with their parents. How can we write about these important topics, these formative years, without sounding like the analysts…

New Trailer for HOKUM: “When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.” Written and Directed by Damian McCarthy and Starring Adam Scott. In theaters on May 1st, 2026 — DEAD AIR #3: “DEAD AIR #3 is the latest installment in the DEAD AIR series from writer and creator Benjamin Hunting (Model UN, Code 45) and artist Joe Ng (Transformers, Transformers/G.I. Joe). Building on the momentum of the…

When discussing sexual trauma in professional therapy articles, conferences, or media catering to the general public, it is presented solely on what has been lost by survivors, i.e., sexual desire, erotic excitement, or a sense of embodiment and pleasure in one’s body. While these sexual symptoms are described frequently in sex therapy by sexual trauma survivors, they are only part of the broad array of sexual and erotic experiences that survivors can heal from and gain agency over time in sexual trauma-focused somatic sex therapy treatment. In both clinical work and in new studies, many sexual trauma survivors report more…

The 1972 exploitation flick Blood Freak probably won’t be getting a Criterion edition anytime soon.Blood Freak is hysterical in ALL the best possible waysBlood Freak is a movie that absolutely defies description. The 1972 cult classic is so many contradictory things at once that its existence almost seems impossible. It’s a bloody, nudity-filled exploitation splatter movie, but it’s also meant to be a pro-Christian, anti-marijuana screed … and if that wasn’t enough, it also involves a psycho murderer with a TURKEY for a head.It’s hard to pick a starting point with this movie. On one hand, the people who made…