Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

The first teaser for Mike Flanagan’s Carrie does not lead with blood. It leads with a girl trying to work out why she was chosen. “All I ever wanted was to go to school. I never did anything to you,” Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White says in voiceover, addressing the classmates who turned her into a project. “You put in all this effort to make it look like you were my friend. So why? Why not just do that?” Then the line that actually does damage: “And the worst part is that I really could have been your friend.” Prime…

Rather than waiting for a much-anticipated event or activity to unspool in real time, we often enjoy it before we actually experience it. By bringing to mind pleasantly edited images of the activity we are yet to experience, we preview it favorably, pre-sampling the joys the activity is expected to bring us. “I’m looking forward to it!” This is the well-worn expression used to describe our mental musings about a hope-filled, unexperienced future, musings that sprinkle a savory seasoning over our current moment, enriching it. The Very Mortal ‘Now Moment’ Our moments are always fleeting “passing” ones. But despite their…

Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is ready to turn the page after capturing the franchise’s second Super Bowl in his second season at the helm.”Look, I’m different than I was this time last year. I’m different than I was at the end of the season. We got, I don’t know, 30 percent of our rosters probably different,” Macdonald said Saturday. “We got changes to our coaching staff. We got guys with a new perspective. … We’re all kind of new people here in this situation, which, by definition, makes us a new team too.”Seattle opened training camp with much…

This post is Part 1 of a series that will examine the nature of what I refer to as clinical wisdom and provide specific examples of some of these esoteric secrets of psychotherapy. How much of what we call psychotherapy is about the teaching or transmission of certain esoteric and well-guarded secrets about psychology, life, and how to best live it? What are some of these secrets? Where do they come from? And exactly how would such profound and transformative “clinical wisdom” be conveyed from clinician to client or patient? These are difficult questions. Difficult because there are so many…

AMC Global Media returned to San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, where it debuted the first footage from its upcoming mystery thriller YAGA and confirmed the series will premiere on AMC+ this October.  The eight-episode, half-hour drama stars Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek, The Vampire Lestat), Clark Backo (Letterkenny), and Hudson Williams in his first role following Heated Rivalry. Based on Kat Sandler‘s hit play, the series reimagines the legend of Baba Yaga as a contemporary supernatural mystery. YAGA follows private investigator Rapp (Reid) as he travels to a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of Henry…

Apparently, the New England Patriots are ultra serious about locking down Christian Gonzalez for the long haul.”We love Christian Gonzalez. We love him as a player and as a person. That’s why we’ve made an offer to him that makes him the highest-paid player ever to play that position in the NFL, and, coincidentally, it’s the highest contract in Patriots’ franchise history,” Patriots owner Robert Kraft said on Saturday when asked about Gonzalez, who’s extension-eligible, at team training camp, according to ESPN.”So, we’re glad we drafted him, and he’s developed here, and we hope he’ll be with us for a…

Years ago, I learned that understanding the brain does not protect you from mental illness. I had a Ph.D. in neuroscience and worked as a patent lawyer specializing in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. I understood neurotransmitters, stress physiology, sleep, and mood regulation. I also lived with bipolar I disorder. My illness eventually included a severe manic episode, treatment-resistant depression, psychiatric hospitalization, disability, job loss, and bankruptcy. Returning to a demanding professional career once seemed unlikely. Yet I eventually returned to legal work. Today, I practice law, teach a law school course on mental health and the legal profession, and speak and…

Five of the most hurtful events in our intimate relationships are criticism, active disassociation, passive disassociation, infidelity, and deception. Infidelity, in particular, can create intense emotional distress, including depression, anxiety, loss of self-esteem, and trauma. Infidelity is essentially a behavior by one partner that breaks a contract that two people have with each other. In a large study conducted by Elizabeth S. Allen and David C. Atkins in the Journal of Family Issues in 2012, they found, with large representative samples, that 34 percent of men and 19 percent of women had extramarital sex at some point, and within that…

We knew it was coming, but it doesn’t make the news any less exciting: Interview with the Vampire is back with a fourth season, officially titled Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned! From the Press Release: AMC Global Media announced today it has renewed Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire for a fourth season to be titled Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned. The news was announced during its Comic-Con International Hall H panel for The Vampire Lestat featuring series executive producers Mark Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch and castmates Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian and Sheila Atim. The renewal…

After putting on an incredible performance in his debut World Cup at 40-years old, Cape Verde’s star goalkeeper Vozinha has reportedly reached a verbal agreement to join Chilean club Colo Colo.The transfer follows a breakout campaign at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, where Vozinha helped lead Cape Verde to the round of 32 in the country’s first-ever appearance. The signing was teased by the club on social media.Named to FIFA’s team of the tournament, the veteran goalkeeper recorded 18 saves across four matches, 15 of which came against the two teams that reached the final, while helping Cape Verde without…