Building Secure Attachment: Healing Emotional Baggage for Healthier Relationships with Jessica Baum

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Building Secure Attachment: Healing Emotional Baggage for Healthier Relationships with Jessica Baum, LMHC

Connection to others is our emotional lifeblood. The quality of our earliest connection determines how safe we feel in our bodies and how safe and secure we feel in the world. Healing emotional baggage is a crucial first step in fostering a secure attachment and achieving relationship healing, but we can not do it alone. It is only in relationship that we can heal relationship trauma. How do we hold compassionate space for people when we are also suffering?

To explore how to heal imposed emotional baggage, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with therapist and author Jessica Baum, LMHC.

Jessica offers a step-by-step scientific approach to healing emotional baggage and describes how we develop adaptive strategies to maintain connection and protectors to guard from what is out of our control.

Original Air Date Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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Meet Our Guest:

Jessica Baum, LMHC, is a licensed therapist and the author of Anxiously Attached. As founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach and the Conscious Relationship Group, she supports individuals and couples to form healthy, long-term relationships with online coaching and transformational courses worldwide. Born and raised in Manhattan, she now lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Book: Safe: An Attachment-Informed Guide to Building More Secure Relationships

Jessica Baum—Healing Emotional Baggage:

How secure attachment is formed. {2:04}
Addiction is a coping mechanism. {8:36}
Coregulation and the science of relationship healing. {12:26}
Doing the work of healing emotional baggage. {24:24}
How to achieve secure attachment. {32:20}

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