Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Are you dating down—dating someone who isn’t worth your time, your effort, and all that you have to offer. Note that this isn’t about dating someone with a different financial, social, or professional status, race/ethnicity, or some other outside appearance thing. In fact, people too often use such superficial things to prematurely rule out others from a dating standpoint. No, dating down here refers more to the inside stuff—not getting the kindness, loyalty, compassion, empathy, support, effort, or other deeper things that you deserve. It’s important to recognize when you are dating down because, when you get down to it,…

I spent nearly a decade in various professional roles that led me to believe I was a “child expert” before ever becoming a parent myself. Before becoming a mother, I had values and expectations that felt thoughtful and well-intentioned, but then I experienced what I can only describe as aggressive humbling from the moment I held my daughter in the hospital. Now that my daughter has just celebrated her fourth birthday, I finally feel ready to express what I’ve learned from parenthood. 1. Having high expectations of myself as a parent can make things harder I have a distinct memory…

What’s better than Christmas and football?Making some extra cash to go along with it! FOX Sports Research has put together a 10-leg parlay for you to have some extra fun during the holiday weekend, while watching all of the NFL action. The parlay below has odds of approximately +85640 at DraftKings Sportsbook, meaning a $10 wager would yield a payout of a whopping $8,574.05. We’ve included spread picks, moneylines, Over-Under totals, and player props in this wager, but remember— the more legs you add to a parlay, the less likely it is to hit.That being said, here’s our 10-leg Christmas weekend…

Research shows that reading books can be beneficial to well-being (for instance, Serowik et al., 2020). It can be challenging to wade through the myriad offerings to find the gems that hold the complexity of both our internal and our external worlds and provide useful guidance for a meaningful, connective, values-based path forward in our own lives. These three books are among my highlights from the past year; each of them really resonated with me and I think they have valuable voices that resonate with anyone who reads them. Each is based in scientific evidence, experience-based insights, contextual/structural awareness, and…

This is Part Three of a three-part series. You can read Part One here. You might have a father, mother, or siblings who do not meet you halfway and want to spend time with you on their own terms. “I’m dreading having to be in the presence of my mother-in-law,” admitted Federica in a recent conference. Live Our Way Placating family members may feel threatening to the person you have become. This threat to your personal identity will likely induce anxiety within you. Further, you may be feeling anxiety about anticipated family conflict. History may have demonstrated to you that…

On December 14, we learned of the violent, untimely deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner. In the days since, their son Nick has been arrested and charged with their murders. If it is ultimately proven that he is responsible, he will have committed parricide, the term for the killing of a parent by their child. Parricide is rare—it accounts for only 2 percent of all homicides—and the killing of both parents is a tiny percentage (4 to 8 percent) of all parricides. When it happens, we are horrified and deeply saddened, confounded by the extreme violence and loss within a…

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.Missouri online sports betting is officially live as of December 1, 2025, giving new users across the state full access to legal online Missouri sportsbooks and a packed lineup of launch-week welcome offers. Fans can now sign up, claim bonuses from the top Missouri sportsbook promos, and start placing wagers instantly through licensed operators.With the state’s first few weeks of legal betting underway, bettors can dive into a full…

In our family, we spend more time and effort planning our holiday food than any other aspect of the season. Not only do we love to eat, but we also carefully curate our sense of home and family by sharing food. And during our holiday meals, we will be serving memories with a side of nostalgia. Food is memory Are there particular foods that you simply must have during the holidays? A main course or side dish that needs to be served? Are there some treats, cookies, and sweets that everyone looks forward to? Over the years, our family has…

While we treat professional life like a series of closed chapters, modern acceleration has turned careers into “perpetual beta”—where nothing truly finishes, and the psychological cost accumulates silently. Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (1822). Kafka’s (1883–1924) incomplete novels. Da Vinci’s (1452–1519) abandoned inventions. Today, this gallery has moved from museums to our desktops: half-read books, research papers in perpetual “revision,” and side projects filed under “someday.” This isn’t a moral failing. It’s the human condition under acceleration. But there’s a psychological cost we rarely name: completion debt—the accumulated cognitive weight of unfinished commitments that never quite disappear from our mental ledger. The…

The worst form of torture for laboratory rats is unpredictable intermittent shocks. With phones in our pockets we are submitting to the worst form of torture every waking moment. Ironically, fifty years ago when a telephone rang in a home, all denizens would joyously scurry towards the plastic encased device as if it were Santa Claus descending the chimney with a satchel full of gifts. Prior to the invention of caller-ID, while the telephone was ringing… you did not know who was calling. You had to pick up the phone in order to find out. Imagine. That unique and ubiquitous…