The Gratitude Jar Method: How to Break Free from a Funk Fast

Heal Squad x Maria Menounos

Maria Menounos, Heal Squad

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Hey Heal Squad! Just in time for gratitude season, longtime magazine editor and lifestyle expert Meaghan B. Murphy joins us for a “Heal in 10” episode packed with quick, powerful mindset shifts. She breaks down her signature Gratitude Jar method, perfect for everyday use (and especially magical at Thanksgiving!), and explains how this simple ritual helps you put into the universe what you want and what you’re grateful for. Meaghan also shares her go-to strategy for those anxious or “stuck” moments, showing how one small choice can kickstart momentum toward positivity… the kind that becomes unstoppable. This short and sweet episode delivers a burst of inspiration you won’t want to miss. Tune in! -- HEAL SQUAD SOCIALS IG: https://www.instagram.com/healsquad/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@healsquadxmaria HEAL SQUAD RESOURCES: Heal Squad Website:https://www.healsquad.com/ Heal Squad x Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HealSquad/membership Maria Menounos Website: https://www.mariamenounos.com My Curated Macy’s Page: Shop My Macy’s Storefront EMR-Tek Red Light: https://emr-tek.com/discount/Maria30 for 30% off Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/ Thrive Causemetics: https://thrivecausemetics.com/healsquad Get 20% OFF with this link! Briotech: https://shopbriotech.com/ Use Code: HEALSQUAD for 20% off GUEST RESOURCES: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meaghanbmurphy/?hl=en Website: https://meaghanbmurphy.com ABOUT MARIA MENOUNOS: Emmy Award-winning journalist, TV personality, actress, 2x NYT best-selling author, former pro-wrestler and brain tumor survivor, Maria Menounos’ passion is to see others heal and to get better in all areas of life. ABOUT HEAL SQUAD x MARIA MENOUNOS: A daily digital talk-show that brings you the world's leading healers, experts, and celebrities to share groundbreaking secrets and tips to getting better in all areas of life. DISCLAIMER: This Podcast and all related content (published or distributed by or on behalf of Maria Menounos or http://Mariamenounos.com and http://healsquad.com) is for informational purposes only and may include information that is general in nature and that is not specific to you. Any information or opinions provided by guest experts or hosts featured within website or on Company’s Podcast are their own; not those of Maria Menounos or the Company. Accordingly, Maria Menounos and the Company cannot be responsible for any results or consequences or actions you may take based on such information or opinions. This podcast is presented for exploratory purposes only. Published content is not intended to be used for preventing, diagnosing, or treating a specific illness. If you have, or suspect you may have, a health-care emergency, please contact a qualified health care professional for treatment.

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0:29.7	at mesies.com. And as always, I have inspoen my wish list below. I'm on a journey to heal
0:37.2	and get better in all areas of life. and I want to do it with you.
0:40.7	Welcome to Heal Squad by Maria Menunoz, where we improve and heal all parts of our lives, most importantly, our health.
0:48.2	Heel Squad by Maria Menuno's, your life improvement series starts now.
0:53.6	Let's talk a little bit about you have these gratitude jars.
0:58.1	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so I love, ooh, can you see it? I made it out of just a hurricane.
1:05.6	So any kind of like glass dish, glass vase, any kind of a glass vessel, if you will, makes an awesome gratitude jar.
1:14.6	So I wrote Give Thanks on it. I have a cricket, you know, one of those crafty things that makes
1:18.7	its own stickers. But you could do this in regular stickers. You could do it in a wine marker.
1:22.4	A wine marker is great on glass. And then you just fill it with things you're grateful for.
1:28.3	So you can write little gratitude messages on the little things. We've had ours for years and years and years. So sometimes
1:33.3	it's just fun to look back and be like, in 1982, I was grateful for law. And the other thing we do
1:39.8	is we add photos. So like this is my son James from last year and it's just fun to
1:45.5	going to go through and say like what we were grateful for then, what we're grateful for now
1:49.9	and the pictures. I don't know, I don't really know why I was making this face last year,
1:55.2	but apparently that was that was my Thanksgiving mood. But it's just super fun to go back. And this was the year, I love this, this was the year Uncle Aaron somehow had these, like, crazy lamb chops. And I'm like, I didn't even remember that facial hair, but it's so fun to kind of look back in our gratitude jar and think about where we were, who we were with, and what we were grateful for. And it's really simple to do, and it's decorative.
2:23.5	I mean, I put this on the table as a bit of a centerpiece, too. You know, and I read very strongly in an attitude of gratitude and a gratitude practice, as I know you do. And it's just a fun way to put
2:28.9	that on display and to make it sort of this visual reminder of like, that's why we're here.
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