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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 27m

Financial fear rewires how we vote. When the ground feels unstable, we default to defense, not vision. Lisa Cypers Kamen and Dr. Lorenza Antonucci connect the dots between economic stress and the ballot box. 🏛️

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 22h

If we are alive, we will experience trauma. It may arrive as a single, shattering event or as the slow accumulation of stress overload we barely notice until our bodies start speaking louder than our minds.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Minh Ly, author of Answering to Us: Why Democracy Demands Accountability, is on the latest episode of the Harvesting Happiness podcast with @lisakamen.bsky.social: buff.ly/iv5Q2hZ

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Elections Aren’t Enough: What Real Democracy Actually Requires

Podcast Episode · Harvesting Happiness · September 17 · 35m

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Emotional baggage isn't a metaphor. It's an inheritance, handed down through modeling, neglect, and the slow pile-up of pain no one processed. And it never stays packed. It follows us into every room we walk into. Keep reading: medium.com/@HarvestingH... #Relationships #MentalHealth

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Emotional Baggage: How Unresolved Trauma Quietly Destroys Every Area of Our Lives

Emotional baggage from childhood trauma and difficult family dynamics silently undermines our relationships, career, and well-being.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why do anxious times produce angry ballots? New on Harvesting Happiness: The Hidden Psychology of Populism: How Insecurity Shapes How We Vote with Lorenza Antonucci, PhD. We look at how insecurity, financial and otherwise, finds its way into the voting booth.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He used to run into burning buildings. Now he helps couples stop running from hard conversations. When we fear judgment, we go quiet about desire, and that quiet becomes distance.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Conscious Joy Activism invites us to reframe our emotional lives, reminding us that joy as an active, intentional practice is a verb. In a world fraught with systemic challenges, happiness as resistance is a radical act. Listen to this episode here... www.linkedin.com/pulse/joy-pr...

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Joy as a Practice: Happiness as Radical Resistance with Erica Brown

In a world fraught with systemic challenges, happiness as resistance is a radical act.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of you reaches. The other retreats. Repeat for ten years. Pursue-and-withdraw cycles quietly drain intimacy from long-term love. Underneath them is usually a fear of rejection that keeps us guarding ourselves instead of saying what we actually need, emotionally and physically.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We volunteer expecting it to cost us something — time, energy, a piece of our day. Instead, it gives something back. This isn't just anecdotal warm fuzzies. It's one of the most consistent findings in well-being research: giving our time genuinely makes us happier.

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The Science of Altruism: Why Helping Others May Be the Most Direct Path to Inner Peace

What does the science of altruism actually tell us about inner peace? A look at the research on empathy, giving, and why helping others may be one of the most reliable paths to well-being.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧠 Tune in for your weekly portion of consciously prepared brain food: Wired for Desire: Attachment Style, Emotional Safety & the Truth About Intimacy with Dr. Laurie Watson, PhD & George Faller, LMFT.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

⚖️ True democratic health relies on civil disagreement, open debate, and protecting space for dissenting views—not demanding total uniformity.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Giving well and with intention may be one of the more direct routes to the inner peace so many of us are chasing.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Voting is just step one. 🏛️ Every historical advance in justice and human rights relied on continuous mass political action, not passive waiting. Learn why adult civic education and local grassroots organizing are essential to protecting open societies.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When we allow ourselves to fully mourn while still moving forward, something remarkable happens on the other side: metamorphosis. We discover we've inherited more than just heirlooms—we've inherited resilience, recipes, stubborn streaks, and the responsibility to keep telling the stories.

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The Magic of Moments: Celebrating Our Roots, Our Milestones, and Even Our Losses

When we allow ourselves to fully mourn while still moving forward, something remarkable happens on the other side: metamorphosis.

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Harvesting Happiness @lisakamen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elections alone do not guarantee democracy. 🗳️ Once officials take office, real accountability often disappears into a black hole of governance. Political scientist Dr. Minh Ly joins the podcast to unpack what active citizenship actually requires to keep democratic systems alive.