A grounded bridge from attachment theory to the felt work of safety.
Jessica Baum and Lisa Cypress-Kamen spend the hour on a question that sounds simple and keeps opening up: why attachment knowledge often stays abstract until it lands in the body.

Lisa Cypers Kamen
500 episodes listed below
Warm psychology for steadier living.
Harvesting Happiness is a long-running interview show about emotional steadiness, relationships, and everyday mental fitness. Lisa Cypress-Kamen guides guests through serious topics with a calm, humane style that favors usable language over self-help noise.
PRESS PLAY
Harvesting Happiness is a warm, guest-led show about mental fitness, relationships, and human flourishing. It is not a quick-fix format. Lisa Cypress-Kamen gives guests room to teach, then steadies the conversation with clarifying questions and gentle reframes. Recent episodes move through attachment security, emotional baggage, high-conflict personalities, play, perfectionism, Taoism, and the changing nature of intimacy. The show is comfortable with clinical language, but it usually translates those ideas into lived experience. Attachment is not treated as a label only. It becomes a bodily process involving safety, memory, regulation, and the capacity to stay present with another person. Conflict episodes are similarly practical. Bill Eddy's conversations focus on limits, consequences, manipulation, and the difference between empathy and overextending oneself. The show can be direct when it needs to be. It recognizes trauma without making trauma an excuse for every behavior. Other episodes widen the frame. Ross Ellenhorn's conversation links play, failure, loneliness, collective invention, and a felt sense of being human. Dr. Patricia Zurita Ona's two-part appearance centers psychological flexibility, high achievement, anxiety, perfectionism, and procrastination. Diane Dreher brings Taoism into contact with hope, courage, creativity, psychology, and neuroscience. Dr. Justin Garcia's episode places romance, sexuality, courtship, and AI inside a broader biopsychosocial conversation about human connection. Across these topics, Harvesting Happiness favors dignity over drama. It can be hopeful without sounding shallow. It is especially strong when an episode turns an abstract concept into a tool for relationships: pause, notice the body, set the limit, repair where possible, and stop performing care for people who exploit it. The audience is likely to be curious, self-reflective, and willing to sit with uncomfortable material. For them, the show offers calm companionship and usable mental-health education.
Made for: For listeners drawn to thoughtful mental-health education, relationship repair, and practical emotional tools. It fits people who prefer measured guest conversations over motivational shortcuts.
What sets it apart: The show blends guests with a humane editorial frame, making clinical and cultural ideas feel usable without flattening them. Its range runs from nervous-system work to Taoism, conflict limits, play, perfectionism, and digital intimacy.
Harvesting Happiness with Lisa Cypers Kamen broadcasts consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California and on-location. HHTR promotes happiness, well-being and global human flourishing with a diverse and proactive collection of the greatest thought leaders and change agents who are devoting their lives to creating a better world in which to live. Each episode focuses on personal-growth, human-interest, self-improvement, healthy lifestyle and positive psycho-social education.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations connect emotional well-being to concrete choices about boundaries, intimacy, caregiving, play, and purpose.
Harvesting Happiness uses guest interviews to bring broad ideas about emotional well-being into ordinary life. Lisa Cypress-Kamen guides each exchange from a central premise toward recognizable pressures: intimacy after trauma, the fear of failure in play, conflict with…
Lisa Cypress-Kamen meets your better-life itch with sober sex, caregiving policy, and boundaries that actually hold.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded bridge from attachment theory to the felt work of safety.
Jessica Baum and Lisa Cypress-Kamen spend the hour on a question that sounds simple and keeps opening up: why attachment knowledge often stays abstract until it lands in the body.
Practical boundary setting for moments when kindness needs a spine.
Bill Eddy treats conflict as something that can be handled with limits, consequences, and, when the relationship calls for it, a brief nod of empathy and respect.
A steady guide to setting limits and consequences with high-conflict personalities.
Bill Eddy and Lisa Cypress-Kamen frame chaotic behavior as something to manage, not label for its own sake. The strongest advice is plain and usable: set the limit, spell out the consequence, and, when the situation allows it, add a short note of care so firmness does not turn…
A thoughtful case for play as a humane route to purpose, belonging, and aliveness.
This episode keeps its focus on play as something useful, not merely pleasant. The argument moves cleanly from failure and loneliness to the way people make meaning together, and that gives the discussion a steadier center than its upbeat surface first suggests.
A sober look at caregiving that treats love as real, but not sufficient.
Caregiving sits at the center of this conversation, and the episode argues plainly that love cannot stand in for a functioning support system. Dr.
A calm, practical look at reawakening sexuality after trauma, with safety and emotional intimacy kept in view.
Harvesting Happiness treats reawakening sexuality after trauma as a practical, educational topic, with Lisa Cypress-Kamen framing the show as psychosocial education.
A calm, practical conversation about wisdom, inner freedom, and a steadier approach to happiness.
Harvesting Happiness keeps its attention on a plain question: how does one become wise enough to be happy, and what sets people free? Brandon Barka speaks in a calm, accessible register, and the discussion stays with mindfulness, inner freedom, and mindful living instead of…

Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.

Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.

Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.


Lisa Cypress-Kamen interviews Jessica Baum, LMHC, author of Anxiously Attached and Safe: An Attachment-Informed Guide to Building More Secure Relationships, about releasing emotional baggage and building secure relationships.
Respect needs a boundary.
High conflict is not only about the blowup in front of you.
Lisa Cypress-Kamen talks with Dr.
This episode features part two of an interview with Dr.
This episode features Dr.
This episode explores Taoism from a secular perspective with Professor Diane Dreher, blending ancient wisdom with modern psychology and neuroscience to promote inner peace and well-being.
This episode features a conversation with Dr.
This episode explores the biology of bonding and human sexuality with Dr.
Caregiving has been pushed into private life.
This episode features an interview with a licensed clinical social worker about keeping relationships thriving during difficult times.
This episode explores post-traumatic growth and how to restore happiness and resilience after adversity, featuring trauma expert Dr.
This episode discusses moving from people-pleasing to purpose-driven living and breaking love addiction patterns with guest Britt Frank.
This episode explores intelligent communication and listening skills with sociolinguist Haru Yamada, promoting emotional and social intelligence for better well-being.
This episode explores the philosophical question of whether life is meaningless or full of purpose, discussing nihilism versus existentialism with guest Dr.
An interview with Professor Roger Berkowitz about Hannah Arendt's political philosophy and the importance of joy and hopefulness in difficult times.
This episode explores the intersection of Hannah Arendt's political philosophy and positive psychology to promote well-being and loving the world in dark times.
This episode explores building secure attachment and healing emotional baggage for healthier relationships with therapist Jessica Baum.
This episode features an interview with Professor Diane Dreher about finding inner peace through the Tao of Chill, blending wisdom with psychology.
This episode explores keys to unlocking a satisfying life with guest Paul Olinger, a former Facebook executive turned comedian, discussing the connections between money, happiness, work, and success.
This episode discusses the loneliness epidemic and cultivating self-love through the inner bonding process.
This episode explores how big-tech digital colonialism imposes values on the world, featuring an interview with Katerina Reinecke about her book Digital Culture Shock.
This episode features an interview with Patricia Timerman Barbosa da Silva, PhD, discussing communication and relationship skills to improve conversations and overall happiness.
This episode explores the altruistic brain and how connection and community architecture can foster well-being and happiness through psychosocial education.
This episode explores U.S.
This episode explores the psychology behind why people accept misinformation and political rumors, featuring an interview with MIT professor Adam Berinsky about his research on how these phenomena shape democracy.
This episode explores the science of how memory works, including information processing, recall, false memories, and the impact of technology on cognition, featuring an interview with Dr.
Sex gets named plainly here.
Host Lisa Cypers Kamen interviews Professor Roger Berkowitz about Hannah Arendt's political philosophy and the importance of joy and hopefulness in difficult times.
This episode explores the intersection of Hannah Arendt's political philosophy and positive psychology to promote well-being and fearless thinking.
Brendan Barca keeps Buddhism tied to mindful living.
This episode discusses caregiving as a journey of selflessness and love, featuring an interview with caregiver Sarah Cart.
Host Lisa Cypers Kamen interviews Dr.
This episode explores bias, equality, and social justice through a mental health lens with guest Dr.
This episode features an interview with mindfulness educator Susan Kaiser Greenland about secular mindfulness practices for peace of mind.