Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

While the Asian community is incredibly diverse in its histories, languages, cultures, and traditions, many shared experiences create a sense of mutual understanding. Many Asian Americans navigate the tension between belonging in mainstream society and honoring family and cultural values. As these values continue to evolve, balancing traditional and non-traditional expectations remains an ongoing challenge—one that often plays out within our nervous systems. Recognizing commonalities across our communities can be validating and even intergenerationally corrective, helping us examine the biases we pass on to future generations. Asian providers have an opportunity to broaden our knowledge, so that we become more…

SEVERIN FILMS UNEARTHS ‘DANZA MACABRA VOLUME 5: THE SPANISH GOTHIC COLLECTION BOX SET’: “Severin Films today announced the forthcoming release of DANZA MACABRA VOLUME FIVE: THE SPANISH GOTHIC COLLECTION. With their fifth installment of “an essential series of Euro-Gothic tastiness” (Mondo Digital), Severin returns to the cemeteries, catacombs and cobwebbed castles of Spanish cinema for an all-new exploration of Gothic Horror excellence with 4 uncut classics on 5 discs: In the North American Disc Premiere of 1964’s STRANGE VOYAGE, director Fernando Fernán Gómez crafts a macabre true-crime shocker featuring a poignant performance by none other than Jess Franco. The disturbing 1971 drama EXORCISM’S DAUGHTER is presented in its complete U.S. Version – now…

A few years ago, I noticed my knee shaking when I climbed onto a stepladder. The thing wasn’t even a foot off the ground, and my body reacted like I was scaling Everest. I decided I had to do something to address my fear of heights. As a psychologist, I knew the best approach would be gradual exposure. Climb a rung on a ladder, let your nervous system adjust, then climb another one. But I’m impatient. Also, I didn’t have a ladder. So I decided to try another psychological approach—flooding. Which, in my case, meant doing the scariest thing I…

Chiwetel Ejiofor encounters the eponymous Backrooms of Kane Parsons new film.Backrooms takes “liminal horror” mainstream. Check out our guest review of Kane Parsons’ new film from Anthony Wetmore!Backrooms is a film that asks “what is a memory?” An iteration on a prior event reflected back through the lens of the one remembering, one might say. The way they reoccur over time, again and again, memories become something else – an iteration of an iteration. In Backrooms, the directorial debut from Kane Parsons, this idea is explored to every nook and cranny of the yellow-tinged hallways. The surprising expansion of rooms,…

Nick Bosa is encouraged by the pace of his recovery from another major knee surgery and believes he’s on track to return to the field during training camp and start the season on time for the San Francisco 49ers.That wasn’t always the case for the star edge rusher in the early days after he had his third major knee injury of his career when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in Week 3 last season.”It was rough early on, obviously,” Bosa said Thursday in his first news conference since the injury last September. “You just want…

Where do you live in the continuum of time? Do you think a lot about future plans, vacations to come, future events, weddings, graduations, promotions, and so forth? Or are you at a place or moment in your life when you think more often of the past, things that happened, events that were good or not so good? In Discovering Free Will and Personal Responsibility, the renowned humanistic psychologist Joseph Rychlak (1928-2013) acknowledged that reminiscing about pleasant memories is normal and sometimes can even be psychologically helpful. However, he noted that most psychologists agree that living in the past is…

Any fan of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles knows there are a few undeniable truths:Claudia’s death is the emotional core of the entire saga.The vampiric family tree is less a tree and more like a sprawling, chaotic web.Memnoch the Devil (1995) is either a masterpiece or an acid trip (or, somehow, both).And Louis de Pointe du Lac is unfairly beautiful.But perhaps the most universal truth of all is this:If Lestat de Lioncourt is narrating, the introduction is going to be… a lot.His introductions aren’t merely — could never be simply classified as — introductions. That would be far too plain.…

By Grace A. Chen, B. Andi Lee, Helen A. Neville, Della V. Mosley, Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Duenas, Bryana H. French, & Jioni A. Lewis Irene (pseudonym), a middle-aged Taiwanese woman, was walking alone on a trail when a white man yelled an anti-Asian slur at her a couple of times from an overpass. She felt scared because she didn’t see anyone else around and wasn’t sure if the man would try to follow her. Once she saw other people and realized he had not followed her, she finally could breathe again. Different versions of Irene’s story have occurred…

ENDEAVOUR #3  Preview: “Stephanie Phillips (Daredevil) and Marc Laming (Star Wars, American Century) close in on the back half of their modern Lord of the Flies, a brutal survivalist horror set adrift at sea. Lee Loughridge on colors. The pressure cooker hits boil in #3.” Series Synopsis: “Set aboard a historical recreation of an 18th-century schooner, ENDEAVOUR witnesses a group of children from elite families invited on a luxury recreational cruise with modern amenities. When unexpected chaos erupts, seven children are left stranded on the ship and adrift at sea. As supplies dwindle and the children battle the elements, a…

Veterinary medicine is often associated with compassion and healing, but it also involves repeated exposure to suffering, loss, and ethically complex decisions. For many professionals in the field, the emotional demands are both cumulative and underrecognized. Veterinary social work addresses this often-invisible dimension of care. While much of the role involves supporting clients, an equally important focus is the well-being of veterinary staff. Research has consistently shown elevated rates of burnout, compassion fatigue, and psychological distress among veterinary professionals, driven in part by the frequency of euthanasia, financial constraints on care, and intense client interactions. Compassion fatigue, a concept closely…