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law of conservation of energy

July 28, 2026 by Phil

For years I was a world-class people-pleaser. The anger didn’t go anywhere. It just waited. A reflection on emotional repression, the body’s ledger, and what the Law of Conservation of Energy has to do with all of it.

But Not Really: What The Giving Tree Taught Me About Codependency

July 19, 2026June 4, 2026 by Phil

Shel Silverstein’s children’s classic may be the most accurate portrait of codependency ever written — a story about giving that looks like love but ends in depletion. A close reading of what the tree was really doing, and why.