Mental fitness with a humane lens.
Harvesting Happiness treats happiness as a learned practice, not a mood to chase. Lisa Cypress-Kamen leads brisk, warm interviews on conflict, caregiving, bias, digital overload, play, and the social conditions that shape mental health.
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Harvesting Happiness approaches well-being as something built through attention, relationships, choices, and culture. The show is not only interested in feeling better. It is interested in thinking better about what gets in the way. Lisa Cypress-Kamen hosts warm, brisk conversations with guests who bring language to familiar emotional knots: guilt around saying no, fear of failure, digital overstimulation, caregiving strain, social bias, and conflict that keeps escalating. The show’s strength is its ability to move from an idea into a lived example without losing the thread. A discussion about boundaries becomes a conversation about parenting oneself with both firmness and care. A segment on high-conflict personalities becomes a lesson in limits, consequences, trauma, and the difference between empathy and overextension. A conversation about play becomes a serious argument for aliveness, collective creativity, and the human need to return to a group. The tone stays constructive. It can handle grave subjects, but it does not linger in despair. Recent episodes bring in Bill Eddy on chaotic character types and high-conflict personalities, Dr. Laura Malden on America’s caregiving crisis, Dr. Joanne Finkelstein on bias and equality, Dr. Carl D. Marcy on brain health in the technology era, Dr. Laura Ackman on world happiness, and Ross Ellenhorn, PhD on playfulness and life purpose. Across those conversations, happiness is treated less like a slogan and more like a discipline of perception, connection, and repair. The show is especially attentive to the places where individual mental health meets social context. Technology changes the nervous system. Bias affects emotional life. Caregiving exposes the limits of private resilience. Giving to others can alter life satisfaction. Play and belonging can restore a sense of being human. Harvesting Happiness works best for listeners who want reflective self-improvement with credible guests and a compassionate civic lens. It offers practical reframes without promising instant transformation. Its recurring move is simple and useful: name the feeling, widen the frame, and find a more humane way to proceed.
Made for: For listeners drawn to therapy-adjacent interviews, positive psychology, and practical emotional reframes. It especially suits people thinking through boundaries, conflict, caregiving, digital habits, bias, and purpose.
What sets it apart: The show connects personal well-being to social conditions instead of treating happiness as a private mood project. Its interviews balance research, emotional fluency, and concrete everyday examples.
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 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations turn research and therapeutic ideas into practical ways of thinking about boundaries, belonging, generosity, and emotional regulation.
Harvesting Happiness keeps asking how well-being becomes something people can understand and practise. Host Lisa Cypress-Kamen uses guest conversations to connect mental health with collective play, difficult relationships, self-compassion, and research on generosity and life…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical episode on boundaries, consequences, and the deeper patterns that can shape high-conflict relationships.
Harvesting Happiness frames recurring conflict through Bill Eddy's work on high conflict personalities, using his mix of legal, therapeutic, mediation, writing, and co-founding experience to keep the discussion practical.
A grounded conversation about self-leadership as kinder, firmer self-parenting.
Peacemaking with the mind begins from a useful question: how someone can answer critical inner voices without turning self-management into one more standard to fail.
Play becomes a serious way to talk about failure, belonging, and what makes people feel human.
Harvesting Happiness treats play as a path toward purpose and individuality, while Dr. Ross Ellenhorn keeps pressing on the unease underneath it: fear of failure, self-consciousness, and the nagging question of whether play can be done right.
A research-driven look at world happiness and why giving can lift life satisfaction.
Harvesting Happiness centers world happiness, life satisfaction, and well-being, using Gallup World Poll data to support the claim that donations to charity rank among the top predictors of life satisfaction around the globe.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
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.
Harvesting Happiness host Lisa Cypress-Kamen interviews licensed therapist Jessica Baum about her book "Safe," which follows her first book "Anxiously Attached." Baum states that "love is not the ingredient for security.
Craig Foster tells Lisa Cypress-Kamen that nature helped stabilize him after difficult periods, drawing on a 300,000-year human history and roughly 3 million years of ancestral connection to wild environments.
Bill Eddy explains why he thinks about 10% of adults fit high-conflict patterns and why those patterns show up in families, workplaces, neighborhoods, and even world leadership.
Lisa Cypress-Kamen interviews psychologist Elaine Fox about Switchcraft, a set of mental tools for adapting to uncertainty through agility, self-awareness, situational awareness, and emotional awareness.
This episode explores bias and equality, discussing how social justice impacts mental health with clinical psychologist Dr.
Host Lisa Cypers Kamen interviews Dr.
Host Lisa Cypers Kamen introduces a conversation with Bill Eddy about navigating conflicts with chaotic personality types and reclaiming peace.
This episode explores America's caregiving crisis through an interview with Dr.
Lisa Cypress-Kamen opens on coloring outside the lines.
Lisa Cypers Kamen interviews Dr.
Therapist Britt Frank joins host Lisa Cypers Kamen to discuss managing critical inner voices and achieving mental alignment.
On Harvesting Happiness, Lisa Cypress-Kamen interviews Columbia University-trained psychologist Dr.
Diane Dreher presents Taoism as practical guidance for isolation, stress, leadership, and inner peace without requiring religious ritual.
Host Lisa Cypress-Kamen talks with Stephanie Covington, PhD, and Vanessa Carlisle, PhD, about their book "Awaken Your Sexuality: A Guide to Connection and Intimacy After Addiction and Trauma." Carlisle widens "sober sex" beyond recovery from alcohol and drugs to questions like "Am I present?