There’s been an enormous amount of anger at 2020. The result has been innumerable vitriolic memes, despair, and upset. However, one of the major themes of Emotional Embuffination is to redirect focus from what we don’t like to what we do. It’s not...
If you’ve had any political discussions this year, you’ve likely had the following experience: While talking to someone entrenched in a political position, you point out facts showing the other person isn’t making any sense. They’re facts which...
In this video we discuss the habit of sharing memes that announce how much everyone hates 2020 and why doing so can be detrimental to your mental well-being....
2020 has been a very divisive year. While this has caused a lot of misery, it also affords us a unique opportunity to look at the psychology of conflict. The “Karen” phenomenon has taken a central position on the 2020 stage. If you aren’t caught up...
After graduating law school I decided to hang my shingle. I opened up my shop and started taking on clients. I kept thinking, “I know this will be hard at first, but one day I’m going to make a lot of money.” It was the narrative everyone had told...
I got home late at night. It had been a long day and it was just a few minutes before bed time. I went to check on our hamster, Humphrey. When I opened his cage, he immediately crawled up a small set of cardboard stairs he had and looked up at me. The look on his face...
This video is an exclusive interview with the Corona Virus (COVID-19). The virus has a discussion wherein it explains how happy it is to have people discussing the fact that we are in “uncertain times” or “unprecedented...
I was watching television the other day and commercials came on. Everyone was jumping on the COVID advertising bandwagon. Commercial after commercial said either the words, “uncertain” or “uncertainty.” “Unprecedented” was being thrown around to a lesser extent....
In February of 2019, Said Mechaout walked up to Stefano Leo and slit his throat with a knife. The two didn’t know each other. Mechaout just found Leo walking up the street. During interrogation, Mechaout admitted to the crime and told police, “I killed Stefano Leo...
When I started working as an attorney in family law, it didn’t take long before I experienced, “the Flip.” I represented a woman. Her ex was physically abusive. It was painfully clear she was telling the truth. We had a recording of her being attacked by her ex,...
