Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

“The body keeps the score” has become one of the most recognized phrases in trauma culture (1). It serves as the title for courses, continuing education programs for therapists, and lectures for the general public. The idea that the body keeps the score is especially compelling because many trauma survivors experience trauma in the body: clenched jaw, racing heart, frozen posture. The suffering is vivid, physical, and noticeable. A recent paper by Kotler and colleagues in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience has challenged the familiar metaphor (2), proposing that trauma is more about prediction than physical storage. So how do we…

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Let’s Kill Uncle is more than just a mid-’60s William Castle shlocker — here’s a look back at its literary inspiration!It took me a while to discover the novel Let’s Kill Uncle by Rohan O’Grady (1963) after seeing the movie as a kid on late night TV. Sometimes a book leads you to the film adaptation. Sometimes it’s the other way around.Once upon a time late night was a different landscape, and one affiliate where I lived back in the day would take back a night from network programming to run a film of their own.Sometimes you just tuned in…

Watching how people use AI now, I’ve noticed something. They don’t just ask for facts. They ask for advice. Should I take the job? What should I do about the fight with my sister? They get a well-constructed answer, and often do what they were told. I study leadership, mostly in rural, subsistence-based societies. What many AI users are exhibiting is, to use the technical term, followership. In my field, leadership has a broader meaning than just presidents and executives. Evolutionary social scientists typically define a leader as anyone who holds disproportionate influence over a group’s decisions, whatever the group…

Samantha Hughes can tell the job is wrong. There is no baby. The house sits at the end of a road the road itself seems embarrassed about. Mr. Ulman, played by Tom Noonan as a man who has never once told the whole truth about anything, keeps quietly revising the terms of the evening. Every instinct Samantha has is filing a complaint in triplicate. She takes the job anyway, because she is a college student saving for a deposit on her own apartment, and the Ulmans are offering four hundred dollars. That is the plot of Ti West’s The House…

There can be nothing better than living with a dog (or other companion animal) and having negotiable two-way relationships in which each individual has an equal say in how they want to be treated and respected. Of course, the tenor of these and other relationships are highly dynamic and at any given time there has to be give-and-take by each party with the goal of attaining near equality over time. But, the real-life question at hand is how can some sort of equality or near equality be achieved when humans and their dogs differ in what they want and need,…

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Most daters know that relationships come easier when partners can relate to each other. From passion to politics, and everything in between, similar views and values are unifying. Although I have previously written about the value of autonomy within romantic relationships [i], research also corroborates the value of shared, practical experience. Shared Reality in Romance Clara D.D. Claveau and Francesca Capozzi (2026) recently explored the concept of shared reality among romantic couples [ii]. They defined shared reality as “the perception of sharing the same interpretation of the world,” which creates meaning within a world which is admittedly complex and uncertain.…

Who’ll win the Golden Boot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup? The race is on for who’ll score the most goals at the tournament, and it is set to be one of the tournament’s most closely watched storylines.Several of the world’s top forwards will be aiming to finish as the competition’s leading goalscorer. Kylian Mbappé enters the tournament after winning the Golden Boot at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, while Harry Kane, Erling Haaland, Lionel Messi, and Mikel Oyarzabal are among the other players expected to challenge for the award.And check out our list of all the 2026 World Cup…

New research highlights the health benefits of optimism. A recent longitudinal study of over 9000 older adults associated higher optimism with better cognitive function and reduced risk of dementia (Stenlund et al., 2026). Optimists are “people who expect good things to happen to them,” feeling positive about the future (Carver et al., 2010). Being optimistic can help us thrive in many ways. Research has associated optimism with better emotional and physical health, lower likelihood of depression, better immune function, greater academic success, the ability to persevere amidst life’s challenges, and the capacity to learn and grow even after trauma (Carver…