Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

There is a moment in every career when the external markers of success stop being enough. It is not always tied to age, though it often arrives around midlife. It can show up in the form of burnout, restlessness, a sense of being stuck, or the quiet realisation that the path you’ve been on is no longer the path you want to stay on. In our work with thousands of women, we hear this theme again and again. Some women describe the shift as a slow build. Others say it arrives with force: a job restructure, a health scare, a…

Goals are standards that individuals use to evaluate how well they are doing now relative to where they want to end up. Goals basically guide our choices. Once you have a goal, the hard part is figuring out the steps that will get you from point A to point B. The following guide can help you make well-defined and achievable goals. It also provides clues about the various ways that goal achievement fails (Berkman, 2018; Matthews, 2015). 1. Have a very specific goal in mind. Mastering a complex skill (e.g., playing a musical instrument) takes years of dedication through achieving…

With the Event Horizon prequel comic book series Dark Descent now in its fourth and final printing, readers have made it clear that they are hungry for more hellish sci-fi horror set in the ever-expanding universe of the beloved 1997 film, and IDW Publishing is going to continue to sate those eerie appetites in 2026 with the sequel comic book series Event Horizon: Inferno! Taking place 200 years after the chilling events of the film, Event Horizon: Inferno will be written by Dark Descent writer Christian Ward, who this time will be teaming up with artist Rob Carey (Aliens: Resistance)…

I know this one I already somewhat popular, but we need to talk about The Endless. This is one of the few films that explores cosmic horror in all of its confusing beauty. it is a film about family, both good and bad. But more importantly, the film asks how we would act in the face of truly unimaginable events. There are plenty of movies that aim for cosmic dread, but The Endless achieves something truly unique. It takes the unknowable horrors of the universe and distills them into something personal, intimate, and almost beautiful. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead…

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…