Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

A24’s Mother Mary, arriving Spring 2026, is shaping up to be less a music drama and more a harrowing and spiritual reckoning. Directed by David Lowery (The Green Knight, 2021), the film stars Anne Hathaway as an untouchable pop icon whose private life fractures into something darker, stranger, and far more dangerous than her public image could ever allow.  Hathaway’s Mother Mary exists in two forms, and the trailer opens by introducing us to both. The first version is the version the world knows: luminous, ethereal, almost saintly beneath stage lights and beautiful makeup. But that illusion collapses quickly when…

Have you ever chatted with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot? I don’t mean to help with a task at work, but as a companion, a friend, or a therapist. Have you asked for advice in an argument or sought support during a period of loneliness? Evidence shows that, for many of us, AI has become a core part of our everyday lives. Not just our work lives, but our personal lives, too. Indeed, more and more people are turning to AI companions—designed specifically to provide emotional support and a sense of connection. A recent report found that 72 percent of…

Work has always meant more than a paycheck. For many of us, it has been proof of worth. Protection. A way to stay visible in systems that often only notice us when we falter. We were taught, explicitly and implicitly, that effort keeps us safe, that productivity earns respect, that rest is something you reach after survival. So as a new year begins and questions about “work-life balance” resurface, it’s worth asking whether balance was ever the right frame, because balance assumes equal weight, and many of us have been carrying far more than our share for a long time.…

There is something undeniably stylish about I Saw the TV Glow and the way it immerses you in a strange late-night mood that never quite lets you look away. The film wants to be poetic, eerie, and emotionally sensitive all at once, and on some level, that intention shows through the visuals and the performances. But good intentions do not always add up to good representation, especially when so much of the experience is couched in vague metaphors and disconnected sequences. What starts as a promising dive into identity soon feels like a mood piece that forgot to offer much…

We sometimes surround feelings and experiences with buffers that keep us safe from fully feeling them. Some of these buffers are: a story, a familiar belief about ourselves, an addictive habit, or a hastening to fix, change, or control our feelings or the situation. These are all ways of doing something rather than simply being with what is happening to us. Most of us have a fear of simply being right here, right now, preferring to take some action that will make things better. We thereby disable our natural and spiritual inclination to surrender to what is, with an unconditional…

“From New Line Cinema and Nocturna comes THEY WILL KILL YOU. The film unleashes a blood-soaked, high-octane horror-action-comedy in which a young woman must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult’s mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, before becoming their next offering in a uniquely brazen, big screen battle of epic kills and wickedly dark humor. THEY WILL KILL YOU stars Zazie Beetz, Myha’La, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette. Directed by Kirill Sokolov and written by Sokolov & Alex Litvak, the film is produced by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Dan Kagan, and…

Now that the college football regular season is over, the odds for which player will be selected first in next year’s NFL draft are on the move.Let’s check out the latest lines for the next No. 1 pick at DraftKings Sportsbook as of Jan 5.2026 NFL Draft No. 1 pick oddsFernando Mendoza: -500 (bet $10 to win $12 total)Dante Moore: +425 (bet $10 to win $52.50 total)Rueben Bain, Jr: +2200 (bet $10 to win $230 total)Trinidad Chambliss: +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)Arvell Reese: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)Jordyn Tyson: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)Keldric…

Many parents reach a point where they realize the “help” they’ve been giving their adult child is no longer helping. Bills get paid, loans co-signed, deadlines extended, and pep talks offered—yet nothing really changes. The cycle of hope and disappointment leaves parents drained, resentful, and worried. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Parenting Ends, but the Worry Doesn’t When a child becomes an adult, the job of parenting—teaching, guiding, and protecting—has officially ended. Yet many parents still feel compelled to step in, especially when their grown child struggles with motivation, finances, or life direction. Out of love and fear,…

In the last year, we have witnessed an increase in misogynistic attacks in the media and social media. Misogyny, defined as the hatred of women, embodies a strong degradation of women that shows up in hostile sexism and intimate partner abuse. As therapists, it seems essential, perhaps more than ever, that we need to pay attention to the current impact of misogyny on our female and male clients. At the same time, we need also to pay attention how as therapists we might hold misogynist beliefs that can interfere with intervening. Misogyny Rises In December 2024, PBS reported that researchers…

PTSD and other stress-related conditions are of significant importance to large segments of the population, including and perhaps especially law enforcement officers, other professionals in the emergency first response services, and military veterans of combat. Effective treatment for stress and for PTSD is extremely important, and is likely to become even more important in the future. Among the most crucial factors in dealing well with stress, including the extraordinary stress presented occupationally to law enforcement and emergency workers, and the post-combat stress experienced by many veterans, lies in the development of resiliency (Price-Sharps & Sharps, 2025). There are of course…