Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

“Out out out, damn thoughts!” is always my first and overwhelming response to intrusive thoughts. I wrote about this experience with intrusive thoughts in my book Easy Street: A Story of Redemption From Myself, where I described it as feeling like “I was under assault from within, both the perpetrator and the victim of a mental crime.” The more I tried to make the thoughts stop, the tighter they clung. The trick, I eventually discovered, was not to tighten but to loosen. Not to control but to allow. And recently, a Dutch word has helped me remember that. Uitwaaien I…

PARIS, Oct 22 — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will have two police officers stationed in nearby cells while he is in prison to ensure he comes to no harm, France’s interior minister said on Wednesday. Sarkozy on Tuesday began a five-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris — a stunning downfall for a man who led the country between 2007 and 2012. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told Europe 1 radio that two police officers who are part of the security detail protecting former presidents will be stationed permanently…

Get a breath of this not-so-fresh air. Japanese and US researchers have developed a groundbreaking treatment for people who can’t breathe through their lungs — by delivering oxygen where the sun doesn’t shine. Results from the first human clinical trial testing the so-called “butt breathing” technique suggest that it’s safe and well-tolerated, pushing the cheeky alternative one step closer to becoming a real lifesaver. Scientists are developing a technique called enteral ventilation to deliver oxygen to the bloodstream through the rectum. lashkhidzetim – stock.adobe.com It might sound like a sketch from “Saturday Night Live,” but the Ig Nobel Prize-winning idea…

DUBLIN — Anti-immigrant protesters burned a police vehicle and attacked officers near a building housing asylum seekers in Dublin on Tuesday, the justice minister said, a day after a man was arrested for an attack on a young girl nearby. The incident comes two years after anti-immigrant protesters triggered a major riot in the center of Dublin after the stabbing of three young children. The Irish Times, which published a video of a burning police van, reported that over 500 people were involved in the protest outside the building in West Dublin on Tuesday evening. Anti-immigrant protesters burned a Dublin police vehicle…

Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa angrily quit his radio gig at 77 WABC Wednesday in a fiery on-air argument after its owner and one of the station’s most recognizable hosts called on him to drop his Big Apple mayoral bid. “You will never see me in the studio of WABC ever again,” Sliwa told host Sid Rosenberg, who is pushing Sliwa to move aside so independent candidate Andrew Cuomo has the best shot at upsetting Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. Sliwa was a regular feature on WABC, a station owned by grocery tycoon John Catsimatidis New York Post Follow The Post’s coverage…

“It was important to me from the beginning,” Tina Romero says of her feature directorial debut, Queens of the Dead, “to make it colorful and make it vibrant and speak to the magic of drag.” On the day of the dead rising, a nightlife community full of performers must survive a zombie attack – as well as corporate greed, selling out, and misinformation. Queens of the Dead is a horror party with meat on the bone, sharing more than just DNA with the works of George A. Romero. Romero and co-writer, comedian Erin Judge, craft a zombie siege during another…

A bodybuilding champion and influencer has died suddenly at the age of 31 — just weeks after proposing to his girlfriend on stage. Ricardo Nolasco dos Santos, known in the bodybuilding world as Kadu Santos, died in Novo Hamburgo in southern Brazil on Monday. His cause of death has not yet been made public, according to The Sun. “The saddest day of my life. My beloved son,” his heartbroken father, Amauri Santos, wrote on social media, confirming his son’s death. Santos, an 11-time bodybuilding champion and a two-time overall champion of the prestigious Muscle Contest, had just become engaged to…

Michael Vick is making coaching changes with the same blistering speed he displayed during his electric NFL career. The first-time Norfolk State head coach dismissed multiple members of his defensive coaching staff amid a 1-6 start in which the Spartans are allowing 35.6 points per game. Vick did not reveal which coaches have been fired while confirming the news Tuesday. Norfolk State coach Michael Vick. Peter Casey-Imagn Images “That’s my job as a leader,” Vick said, per the Virginian-Pilot. “Not to say that it hasn’t been a success in some areas, it’s just what I expect is far more than…

My husband used to say to me, “What do you want me to do?” He’d say this in response to my complaints that the house was messy, or that we needed groceries, or that we hadn’t made social plans, or that we had guests coming, or that the laundry was building up, and other complaints. When he asked, “What do you want me to do?” it triggered my annoyance and, as time went on, even rage. For years, I just told him with an angry tone what I wanted him to do. After honing my self-awareness and Change Triangle skills,…

Adam Ruzek is exiting the Intelligence Unit — for now. “Chicago P.D.” star Patrick John Flueger is taking a sudden leave of absence from the NBC procedural police drama to deal with a personal matter, Deadline reports. Flueger, 41, has starred on the NBC series since its debut in 2014. According to the outlet, his temporary departure was unexpected and scripts are being reworked last-minute to explain the character’s absence. The actor plans to return later in the season. The Post has reached out to NBC for comment. Patrick John Flueger as Officer Adam Ruzek on “Chicago P.D.” Elizabeth Sisson/NBC…