Dr. Noelle Nelson

What I Learned From A Suffering Kitten

A couple agreed to foster a kitten found, oddly enough, at a Lowe’s store. The kitten was in very bad shape. Along with the usual dehydration and inevitable malnourishment from having been lost or abandoned, this little ball of black fluff had no apparent use of its legs. Nonetheless, the foster couple did their best […]

Do You Like Me?

Likeability shouldn’t matter in the courtroom. A lawyer’s personality should be irrelevant. The facts should be paramount; they should be the only thing jurors pay attention to. Would that be nice if it were true? The jurors on any one of your jury panels are persuaded by a combination of factors. Facts are but one […]

Regain Peace of Mind: Trash Those Unwanted Thoughts, Episode 128

Why is it that sometimes you just can’t let go of an argument, a disagreement? You obsessively hash and rehash what is long done and over with. How unfortunate. Especially since it doesn’t need to be this way. In this podcast you’ll learn how to truly let go and be done with old “stuff” forever. […]

How I Broke Free From Being A Total Introvert And Put More Fun In My Life

Try stepping out of your comfort zone—a little bit at a time. You will still be an introvert. Nothing will change that. What you will come to realize is that interacting and fostering friendships with people with all types of personalities can be wonderful. Here’s my article in Becoming An Unstoppable Women Magazine.

The Enduring, Maddening CSI Effect

In my ongoing research of what jurors think and how they decide cases, I am once again reminded of the enduring “CSI effect,” and how lawyers would do well to pay more attention to it. Simply put, the “CSI effect” is jurors’ overriding, sometimes obsessive, need to explore for themselves every bit of physical evidence […]

A Thanksgiving To Be Grateful For, Episode 126

What is it about getting together during the holidays as an extended family that seems so challenging? You should love and accept your relatives, but they drive you simply up a wall! How can you be grateful in this supposed time of gratitude when they are so annoying? Tune in to this podcast to find […]

Wanna Be Happy? Practice!, Episode 125

Do you ever have a day where it seems everything is going badly, nothing ever seems to go right? To where you want to just scream, and give up on well, everything? Yet all you want to do is be happy, so what now? In this podcast, you’ll discover what’s holding you back from that […]