Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

You’re in a conversation with someone younger than you, maybe a patient, a student, someone you follow online, or your own child, and suddenly the sentence stops making sense. “That movie was mid.”“I’m not gonna lie, that’s kind of sus.”“She gives off main character energy.”“That’s so cringe.” You understand the words individually, at least some of them. But strung together, they make no sense. As a psychotherapist and a mother of a teen, I hear this language not just in passing, but in emotionally deep and layered conversations on a daily basis. Slang shows up in how people describe relationships,…

As a clinical psychologist and avid cultural observer of trends, I am fascinated by the recent uptick in interest in NeeDoh toys. These squishy toys (shaped like balls or cubes) come in a variety of shapes and colors and can be stretched and squeezed and used as toys and/or stress balls. Toy stores can’t keep them in stock for longer than 30 minutes once word gets out that there has been a recent shipment. Lines form outside of stores in pursuit of the NeeDohs. So what is at play here? Why are these toys so popular? What purpose are they…

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.The NBA Playoffs tip off today, and the intensity reaches new highs when a championship is on the line. New users can jump in with DraftKings to bet $5 and get $300 if your team wins.All eyes are on the Lakers vs. Rockets matchup, where future Hall of Famers like LeBron James and Kevin Durant look to set the tone early in the series. Meanwhile, the Nuggets clash with the…

The idea that it’s important to find a match between yourself and your environment shouldn’t seem all that difficult to comprehend. No one likes to feel that they don’t fit in to their surroundings. As simple as this may seem, however, psychology doesn’t always take this into account when predicting who will be happiest or unhappiest in their social surroundings. Too many times, people are expected to adapt to whatever vagaries their path in life may take them through. It would seem as though psychology would want to lessen the impact of an imperfect fit on an individual’s well-being. The…

American international Haji Wright and Coventry City clinched a return to the Premier League for the first time since 2001 after drawing at Blackburn Rovers 1-1 in the Championship on Friday.Frank Lampard’s men were second best for much of the game but one point was enough to secure a historic return to the top tier.Blackburn winger Ryoya Morishita put the home side ahead after 54 minutes but Bobby Thomas equalized six minutes from time to the delight of the visiting fans.The result put Coventry 11 points clear of second-placed Ipswich Town and 13 ahead of third-placed Millwall.The top two go…

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Ashleigh Freckleton didn’t know she was in a cult until it got dangerous. Now, she’s speaking out.

To be in a renaissance of uber-stylized popstar thrillers is a glorious thing. Movies like Vox Lux, Smile 2, Sweetness, and Trap find rhythmic tension in melodic suspense that chases characters like sonic threats. But David Lowery, a filmmaker with prolific vision, imagines a concert-type horror film beyond traditional scares. His A24 joint, Mother Mary, exists somewhere between the aforementioned musical horrors, Peter Strickland’s mesmerizingly off-beat In Fabric, and Luca Guadagnino’s tantric Suspiria remake. A chamber piece that breaks heavy conversations with sensational stage performances, fragile in its themes, yet fearless in showmanship. Anne Hathaway stars as the larger-than-life, Taylor…

I was born in Trondheim, a port on the Norwegian coast that has burned down and been rebuilt more times than anyone agrees on. The Vikings founded it. Fires took it. Oil engineering remade it in the 1970s. Growing up there, you absorb something before you can articulate it: Coordination structures don’t survive by staying the same. They survive by layering. My childhood after Trondheim ran through Connecticut, Belgium, Italy, London, Boston, Berkeley, and San Francisco. My children were born in Brussels, London, and Boston. At 6, my daughter told a neighbor she was “half American, half Norwegian, and half…

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