Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

On the 7th of May, my mentor, the academic titan in well-being and mattering, Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, passed away. Four days later, on the 11th of May, I walked across the stage to graduate with my doctorate. It was also the day that Isaac’s beloved wife, Dr. Ora Prilleltensky, died. After graduation, I went directly to Isaac’s Shiva ceremony, a Jewish mourning gathering centered on remembrance, community, and supporting the grieving family. The timing of it was a lot to process: celebration, grief, gratitude, and loss, all existing together in the same week. But what I remember most from that…

Buffet Infinity is a wildly inventive horror comedy that defies classification AND description.Buffet Infinity is an inventive multimedia mash-upBuffet Infinity is the kind of movie that restores your faith in truly independent filmmaking. With so much derivative chaff bombarding us at cineplexes and on streaming services, seeing something THIS unique, fresh and experimental is an absolute delight. It’s weird, it’s funny and yes, it’s even legitimately creepy at times. I can’t help but feel like we’ll be looking back on this one as a decade-defining genre movie — even if it might take a good 20 or 30 years before…

A patient sits silent for 30 seconds, and then for a minute, and the silence could be any number of things—shame, trust, dissociation, fatigue, anger, or something just beginning to surface, or simply that nothing has arrived yet and won’t for a while—and reaching too quickly for one reading closes the others, while reaching too slowly lets something pass that may not come back. This is the situation negative capability was named for, experiences of deep uncertainty, where trying to solve problems quickly is a failure mode. Keats’s Shakespeare’s-genius-inspired phrase—the capacity to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without irritable reaching…

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The World Cup final is often a star-studded affair – and now this summer’s edition will have some of the biggest names in music joining the festivities. FIFA announced that the tournament’s final on July 19 will have a halftime show that will feature Shakira, Madonna and BTS with the show curated by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Shakira is set to release the official song of the World Cup, “Dai Dai,” later Thursday.The July 19 match will take place at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with the halftime show aiming to raise funds for the FIFA…

ALISON BEARD: Welcome to HBR On Leadership. I’m HBR Executive Editor Alison Beard. On this show, we share case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. We carefully curate this feed from across the HBR portfolio, aiming to help you unlock your next level of leadership. I hope you enjoy the episode. CURT NICKISCH: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Curt Nickisch. Generative artificial intelligence is bringing a new focus on efficiency at work. Some organizations see it as a way to…

You’ve probably heard the advice: If you’re stressed, go for a walk. If you’re still stressed, go for another walk. While physical activity is often recommended to relieve stress, recent research highlights a fascinating connection: Your metabolic health, especially how well your mitochondria work, plays a key role in how your mind and body respond to stress. Mitochondria, the tiny engines inside your cells, influence your mental health and your ability to recover from stress. Many people know that stress can affect their metabolic health. For instance, stress can increase your risk of gaining belly fat, putting on weight, and…

Horror actor and musician Jonathan Tiersten passed away May 4, 2026 at 60 years old. To many in the horror community, Tiersten will forever be Ricky Thomas from 1983’s Sleepaway Camp. The actor later reprised his role in 2008’s Return to Sleepaway Camp. In the summer camp slashers, Tiersten plays Angel Baker’s (Felissa Rose) protective […]

Starting therapy can feel very overwhelming, especially when you do not know what to expect. Spoiler alert: there is no such thing as a “perfect” therapy session. Many people come to therapy worried about saying the right things or having the right insights, maybe even showing up with a list of ideas or feelings. Therapy culture has created the idea that there is a “right” way to show up, when what matters is showing up for yourself. I am going to try to break this complex practice of “therapy” into a few important sections that will help you understand what…

Bela Tarr’s 1994 arthouse classic Satantango *might* be a low-key horror movie …Does the seven-hour Satantango count as a “real” genre movie?Bela Tarr’s Satantango is one of the most critically acclaimed ‘90s movies that people never actually watch. It’s not that the film is too disturbing or depressing, per se, more the fact that it’s seven hours long. And let’s be real, nobody reading this has the attention span and/or bladder control to sit through any movie THAT long, no matter how great it may be.Of course, Satantango is undoubtedly a great movie (even if you do have to watch…