Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Despite having goals, being productive or even being objectively successful, you might still feel dissatisfied with your life. This is because modern dissatisfaction is usually a reflection of imbalance, rather than laziness or greed. One of the most useful frameworks for better understanding this imbalance comes from humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This framework is typically depicted as a multilevel pyramid: Your most basic physiological needs are at the base, then safety, love and belonging, esteem, and finally self-actualization at the top. Although critics have rightly argued that the hierarchy isn’t strictly linear, modern research suggests Maslow was…

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In this post, I continue to explore the paradoxical nature of our human psychology. How is the human mind capable of both breathtaking creativity and unprecedented destruction? How can we create symphonies, build space telescopes, and develop ethical systems, yet also destabilize the climate, fragment our communities, and behave as if we are separate from the world that sustains us? Psychologists have long sought an explanation for this paradox. However, perhaps the answer does not lie in a flaw of human nature but rather in a misunderstanding of what intelligence actually is. An explanation can happen when we no longer…

By Eric Levine, Ed.D with Becky Shipkosky You are the parent of a teen, and you’re wondering whether or not they’ll become a well-adjusted adult. The short answer is: most likely! You’re not alone, and they’re probably more okay than you think. As for a longer answer, the research paints a fascinating picture about what is happening in the brain during these years and how parents can guide healthy development. Of course, parenting isn’t the whole picture; its role is often indirect. But the teen years represent an important neurodevelopmental window for long-term mental health, and parents will impact such…

Emotional dynamics include the function and utility of emotions. Awareness of emotional dynamics can help us avoid conflicts within ourselves and with other people. Importance Emotions create importance. To paraphrase Silvan Tomkins: With an emotional response anything can be important; without one, nothing is.There can be no conscious meaning without emotion. Amplify, Magnify, Distort Feelings seize conscious attention by amplifying and magnifying change within the self or the environment. This hyper-focus evolved to motivate action. But it unavoidably distorts whatever triggered the feeling. The distortion effect of feelings is how the stronger ones, such as anger, make us do and…

Whenever I write about pornography without claiming that it’s the downfall of Western Civilization, I get dozens of angry emails (along with a bunch of appreciative ones). These emails are written almost exclusively by women. They are eager to tell me two things: first, how porn has made their lives miserable. And second, they’re eager to tell me about me: How I have obviously never met a porn addict; have never seen a betrayed woman weep; don’t care about the sexual violence supposedly caused by porn; have no clue what healthy sexuality is like; and how I clearly hate women.…

Audiences are invited to explore one of Vermont’s most mysterious regions in From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle, arriving later this month on streaming platforms and DVD. The documentary will debut on April 28, 2026, on platforms including Apple TV, Prime Video, and Google Play. DVD editions will be available exclusively through the Small […]

South Africa will play in the first match of the entire World Cup for the second time in its history and, interestingly enough, against the same opponent.In 2010, it welcomed Mexico to Johannesburg, but this time, Bafana Bafana will be visitors at the renovated Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. With a co-host and a tough South Korea team in the same group, it could be difficult to make a run this summer.How they Qualified: South Africa secured a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup by finishing at the top of Group C in CAF qualifying, earning automatic qualification with 18…

Some terrors arrive without warning, but we’re giving you a heads up on what’s in store in May 2026 at Wicked Horror TV, though there’s so much on the list, we’re starting a few days early. New titles begin appearing April 26 with much more to follow when the calendar page turns.Look out for bloodsuckers from outer space, more from Bad Ben and plans for some RiffTrax laughs along with the scares. As always, classic horror, camp horror, indy chills and studio chillers are on the schedule. Scroll down to see all that you can see in May. Oh, be…

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