Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. But I don't mean the five stages of grief—I'm talking about the five stages of debugging your first Ember app! Learning how to navigate the building blocks of Ember can be difficult, but the even trickier thing is knowing where to start debugging while you're still learning the framework. One approach that I use is to put myself into my code's shoes. In this talk, we'll connect with our objects to understand what's going on under the hood. Let's jump over some common first-time Ember hurdles together by debugging our code — with empathy.