Episode 2 – Numb or Done: When the Job Steals Your Feelings

🎙️ Episode 2 – Numb or Done: When the Job Steals Your Feelings

Description:
In this episode of Lessons Unlocked, Anthony Gangi explores the hidden cost of emotional detachment in corrections—and how the very coping strategies that keep you safe behind the wall can quietly unravel your life outside of it.

What starts as protection becomes disconnection. You don’t just stop reacting—you stop feeling. And while that might help you survive the shift, it could also cost you your relationships, your health, and your identity.

Through real stories and powerful insights, this episode tackles:
•Why emotional detachment becomes a survival reflex
•How “compartmentalizing” can quietly bleed into every part of your life
•The signs that numbness is turning into burnout
•What emotional exhaustion looks like at home
•How to reclaim your emotional presence—without becoming vulnerable in unsafe spaces

Because behind the badge or behind the desk, survival shouldn’t come at the cost of your humanity.