When Your Job Becomes Your Therapy… But Doesn’t Heal You

In The Know with Tony Reeves · Mar 23, 2026 · 21m

There’s a difference between working hard… and hiding in your work. In this episode of In The Know with Tony Reeves, I share a deeply personal story from my first job—how I immersed myself in work as a way to cope with a toxic relationship, isolation, and unresolved emotional pain. On the surface, it looked like ambition. I was producing. I was being recognized. I was excelling. But underneath it all, I was avoiding something I didn’t know how to face. In this episode, I break down: Why high performers often use work as a coping mechanismHow productivity can mask unresolved traumaThe…