AACE Metrix

Addiction can impact more than just the individual, it can also affect communication, trust, connection, and family dynamics.

These experiences can be difficult for everyone involved, but support and recovery are possible. Healing often happens gradually, through understanding, support, and rebuilding connection over time.

If you’d like to learn more visit our website.

Behind every recovery journey is a team ready to listen, support, and walk alongside you.

These are the faces that will be welcoming you into the Metrix Program — providing guidance, support, education, and care throughout your recovery journey. We understand that reaching out can feel overwhelming, which is why creating a safe, respectful, and supportive environment is at the heart of what we do.

Recovery looks different for everyone, and our team is here to support you at every stage, wherever you may be in your journey.

Get to know more about our team and the Metrix Program through our website: aacemetrix.com.au

Episode 4: It’s affecting your relationships.

Sometimes changes in alcohol or other substance use can begin to impact the people around you through conflict, withdrawal, or feeling less present in relationships that matter.
These experiences can be difficult to navigate and may bring up feelings of frustration, guilt, or disconnection. You don’t have to work through this on your own.

If you would like to learn more about support options, visit our website to view available information sessions.

Two minutes. One notebook. Three things. That's the entire practice.

by Dr. Laurie Marbas on Facebook.

And the research behind it is astonishing.

A 2024 study published in JAMA Psychiatry followed nearly 50,000 women from Harvard's Nurses' Health Study. Those with the highest gratitude scores had a 9 percent lower risk of death from any cause over the study period. The effect was strongest for cardiovascular death.

A separate study in the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics used MRI scans on 478 older adults and found that people with higher gratitude had measurably larger brain volumes in regions related to emotion, memory, and social processing.

Gratitude is not just a nice feeling. It's a measurable intervention.

Here's the practice: every night, before bed, write down three things you're grateful for. Be specific. Not "my family" but "the way my husband laughed at dinner tonight." Not "my health" but "the fact that my knees let me walk up those stairs today."

Specificity is what activates the neural pathways. Vague gratitude is like vague gym work. You need to target it.

In my practice, I've watched patients transform their sleep, mood, and resilience just from this one habit. Two minutes a day. For a lifetime.

You're not manufacturing gratitude. You're noticing what was already there.

And noticing changes your brain.

What are three specific things you're grateful for right now?