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We have numerous expressions involving home: “Home is where the heart is,” “Home sweet home,” and one that is very popular at this time of year: “Home for the holidays.” Home is a container, a place where you can be held. As Valerie Andrews writes in her new book, Our Story of Home, “Home isn’t just four walls with a kitchen and a bed. It’s a hope, a dream, an anthem. Something that lodges in the soul and stays with us despite any hardships we endure.”1 As a universal experience, “home” can be considered an archetype. Carl Jung conceptualized archetypes…

Living in a rural cottage, musician couple Daphne (Rosy McEwan) and Darcy (Dev Patel) get more than they bargained for when they record a bizarre frequency that leads to otherworldly consequences in Rabbit Trap. Written and directed by Bryn Chainey, Rabbit Trap is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD platforms via Magnet Releasing, and we have an exclusive clip for Daily Dead readers to enjoy! Below, you can listen as Darcy captures the hypnotic sounds of birds soaring eerily in the ominous sky in our exclusive clip from Rabbit Trap. To learn more about the film and other exciting…

Existential anxiety and giftedness seem to go hand in hand, which makes sense if you think of giftedness as, at least in part, a preoccupation with problem-solving. Death and life’s meaning are the ultimate riddles, embodying the ultimate challenge. So, on the foundation of anxiety and depression, fear of the unknown, need for control and stability, avoidant tendencies, competitiveness, perfectionism (i.e., needing to know everything to feel secure), and the obsession with discovering root causes (or essences), gifted children are often fixated on life’s deeper questions. Arguably, existential thought, in general, is an outgrowth of these unique personalities. Parents may…

For years, heterosexual relationships have followed an all too familiar order. The man in the dynamic was always older, had more money and, sometimes, played the role of the protector and provider in a relationship. The woman was often younger and had fewer resources to her name. For this reason, she was often dependent on the man and played the role of the ‘accommodating nurturer.’ While we’re yet to completely throw out this outdated version of the script, an emergent script is slowly but surely creating ripples. Women are choosing partners who are younger than themselves, bringing in the “reverse-age-gap”…

Wrexham’s celebrity owners have sold a minority stake in their on-the-rise soccer club to Apollo Sports Capital, a U.S.-based private equity firm.The deal, which was announced on Monday with no terms disclosed, includes investment by Apollo in the redevelopment of Wrexham’s stadium and the surrounding area in the small Welsh city brought to fame by its namesake soccer club since American actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac bought it in 2021 and helped create a popular docuseries about the community.Wrexham, the oldest club in Wales dating to 1864, has earned three consecutive promotions in the English soccer system to reach…

I cohost a podcast called Fifty Words for Snow, where my wonderful Welsh cohost, Emily John Garcés, and I chase down unusual and valuable words from across the globe. Some are ancient. Some are modern slang. Some are invented by poets who create entire languages. Our only requirement is that the word shifts the way we see the world. This week, the word that did that for us was biophilia. Biophilia literally means an innate human love of nature, but the feeling behind it is more dynamic than a fondness for trees. It carries the idea that the world is…

The decades-spanning story of close encounters and unsettling sightings of the Michigan Dogman is explored in the new documentary Dawn of the Dogman, and ahead of its December 9th digital release from Small Town Monsters, we have an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers! Learn how some Michiganders have reported “seeing the creature just outside their homes” in our exclusive clip below. We also have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more about Dawn of the Dogman and other cryptid documentaries, be sure to visit: Press Release: Massillon, OH – For decades the story…

Some horror movies come at you like a chainsaw massacre, all blood and screaming. However, some films use a more gentle touch when terrifying the audience. They creep under your skin, building suspense with a slow, deliberate hand. The Lodge is one of those movies. It’s a film that manages to terrify without ever raising […]

There is so much going on for kids as they enter adolescence, starting at age ten or 11 and persisting for the next several years. Their bodies, brains, and place in the world are changing dramatically and quickly. That’s always been true. But today, there are signs that more young people than ever are having increasingly serious social, emotional, and behavioral problems. Arguably, the best way to address these problems is to reduce the stressors kids are increasingly experiencing. That may mean refocusing public policy by investing in social justice, environmental health, and educational equity. On a slightly smaller scale,…

It seems that the saying “two truths can exist at the same time” is gaining traction in our social conversation. This is an entry point into both how I understand and am reframing ambivalence, a word which is mostly misunderstood, maligned, and sidelined, while ironically being a central and powerful part of our everyday experience. Ambivalence means: 1: simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action 2a: continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite) b: uncertainty as to which approach to follow —Merriam-Webster Dictionary the fact of having or…