Try This Today: How to Use Gratitude to Feel Happier & Improve Your Relationships

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Nov 27, 2025

Discover how simple gratitude practices can enhance your happiness and relationships. Learn about the surprising impact of gratitude on your brain, mood, and even physical health. Mel shares three science-backed tools: the unsent gratitude letter, a quick nightly journal, and gratitude group texts. These techniques are designed to rewire your brain and reduce stress, making it easier to cultivate positivity in your life. By integrating these practices, you'll find a profound shift in your emotional state and interpersonal connections.

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INSIGHT

Gratitude Rewires The Brain

Gratitude rewires your mind to notice what is okay instead of scanning for threats.
This shift reduces reactivity, clarifies thinking, and anchors emotional state.

ADVICE

Write One Unsent Gratitude Letter Weekly

Once a week, write a one-page unsent gratitude letter to someone specific.
Be specific: describe what they did, why it mattered, and how it affected you.

ANECDOTE

Mel's Unsent Letter To Her Husband

Mel wrote an unsent gratitude letter to her husband and felt her irritation soften immediately.
She did not send the letter but the act recentered her and improved her tone with him.

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In today’s episode, you’ll learn a simple tool you can use to feel happier and more connected to your loved ones.

Mel is teaching you a few simple gratitude practices, ones you can do with your family, your partner, or even in a group text, that are proven to lower stress and make any relationship better.

Mel used to cringe at the word gratitude.

The fake smiles. The toxic positivity. The pressure to be “thankful” while your life is falling apart.

But then she uncovered the real science – and what it does to your brain and body is shocking.

This episode is not about keeping a journal or faking a smile.

This is about rewiring your brain, resetting your nervous system, and reclaiming control of your emotional state using simple, proven tools backed by cutting-edge research.

You’ll learn:

-How gratitude shifts your brain out of survival mode and into clarity and calm

-The surprising link between gratitude and inflammation, heart health, and sleep

-How one group text a day can make gratitude stick (and make it contagious)

Want to be happier?

Want to feel more grounded, more emotionally in control, and less hijacked by your stress?

Start here.

These tools are simple enough to try with your partner.

They’re powerful enough to shift the tone in your home.

And they’re easy enough to send in your favorite group text.

By the end of this episode, you’ll walk away with 3 science-backed practices that change how you think, how you feel, and how you move through your day – starting today.

For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.

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