Untoxicated Podcast
Sheri and Matt Salis just wanted a normal life – normal marriage, normal careers, a normal house and happy kids. Instead, they lived a life of lies and terror as they struggled with Matt’s alcoholism. While their experience sounds rare, with over 15 millions problem drinkers in America, their alcoholic marriage was all too normal.
Matt has been writing about their experiences in alcoholism and recovery for years. On the Untoxicated Podcast, Sheri and Matt talk about it, too.
No subjects are off limits as the couple discusses the trauma of active addiction, the pain of early recovery, the destruction and rebuilding of trust, and the impact on their intimate relationship. If you love an alcoholic, the disease will terrorize your relationship. We hope you’ll listen and find healing in our shared stories.
For more support from Sheri and Matt, check out their Echoes of Recovery program providing connection and healing for the loved ones of alcoholics.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 324
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Ep153 – Making the Turn for Home with Mindy and Tom
Do you want to know what it takes to save a marriage from alcoholism? One word: genuine humility. OK, that's two words. And it also takes therapy, group work, hard-earned detachment, faith, resentmen…
01:07:34 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Ep152 – Five Ways Alcohol Impacts Brain Chemistry
The brain is the final frontier of human biology, so the full impact of alcohol on our gray matter is a topic that undergoes continuous discovery. In this episode, Sheri and Matt discuss five ways al…
01:05:57 |
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Ep151 – New Hope after Death with Suzy Jahn
The official cause of death was, "Complications of chronic ethanolism." We all knew Suzy's husband Matt was struggling and relapsing, but no one is ever really ready for death by alcohol. Suzy Jahn j…
01:04:05 |
Mon 08 Aug 2022
Ep150 – Echoed Voices – Live!
To celebrate our 150th podcast episode, we gathered in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains for our first ever Echoes of Recovery retreat. We took a break from hiking and hot springs to record this v…
01:18:38 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
Ep149 – Mantras: Gross and Glorified
Why do we give so much power to the mantras that surround us (at least some of us do (Sheri's looking at you, Matt))? There are gross and glorified mantras that are pillars of the recovery community,…
00:55:50 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
Ep148 – Phases of Relationship Recovery
There is a flow to the process of recovering a marriage from alcoholism. In this episode, Sheri and Matt talk about the universalisms found in the eight phases of relationship recovery. This is time …
01:18:09 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Ep147 – Chaos between the Traumas
Anyone who has experienced an alcoholic relationship is familiar with the traumatic events when the drinking and the aftermath spins wildly out of control. But for most high-functioning alcoholics, t…
00:59:54 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Ep146 – Consistently Different
As a drinker, Matt's goal for the marriage was for Sheri to agree with him on morals, politics, religion, finances, parenting, etc. Only now in sobriety, Matt is realizing that with the exception of …
00:54:49 |
Mon 04 Jul 2022
Ep145 – From Denial to Reality with Leah
Leah suffered from denial for years while living with someone whose drinking became a progressively more significant problem. She describes it like living in the middle of a tornado and refusing to a…
00:57:16 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Ep144 – Pride Over Shame
Pride, self-esteem, ego and confidence often get a bad rap in the traditional recovery community as leading to relapse. We believe the opposite is true, and that self-esteem is the single most import…
01:00:28 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Ep143 – Write Your Story for Us All
We are thrilled to announce the "Evolution Series" as part of our Sober and Unashamed website and blog. Writing our stories of the impact of alcohol on our lives and families is very therapeutic, and…
00:41:15 |
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Ep142 – Consequences with Allison
Everyone understands the consequences associated cigarette smoking (lung cancer) or a poor diet heavy on added sugar and fat (diabetes and obesity). Those consequences are directly correlated and soc…
00:55:30 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
Ep141 – Trauma of Summer Holidays and Vacations
Nothing is more important to healthful, sustained recovery than staying in tune with the traumas of active alcoholism. It isn't a good idea to wallow in misery, but as the seasons change and summer d…
00:53:30 |
Mon 30 May 2022
Ep140 – Ending Our Societal Love Affair with Alcohol
What are the most impactful steps we can take to decrease the massive amount of abusive drinking that is condoned in our culture? Prohibition didn't work, but are there other legal, taxation, media/m…
00:59:32 |
Mon 23 May 2022
Ep139 – Staying Well with Lori
The decision to stay or to go when in an alcoholic relationship seems to rely on the ability of the drinker to find sobriety. Because humans can't change other people, it feels like the spouse has no…
00:59:07 |
Mon 16 May 2022
Ep138 – Looking Back but Moving Forward with Bridget
Bridget stayed with her husband as his drinking destroyed his health and their marriage. The lies, the hiding and the gaslighting is something with which so many loved ones of alcoholics are familiar…
01:06:07 |
Mon 09 May 2022
Ep137 – When Unacceptable Behavior is Normalized
The indicators of the increase in bad behavior are everywhere. The airline industry, big city crime statistics, and alcohol industry consumption numbers all correlate to paint a concerning picture of…
00:57:50 |
Mon 02 May 2022
Ep136 – Married to Addiction with Julie Sanford
Julie Sanford hosts the Married to Addiction podcast, and she joins Sheri and Matt to discuss the similarities and differences in both their recovery stories, and also their outreach to the loved one…
00:57:33 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
Ep135 – Denial: Delaying the Inevitable
Matt spent ten years working himself through the cycle of active alcoholism into permanent sobriety. What could have been accomplished in a year, took Matt a decade to process. Why the delay? Denial.…
00:53:34 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Ep134 – Owning Your Story with Deb
The loved ones of alcoholic are often compelled to keep the trauma of addiction a secret because the drinker has a lot to hide. By stifling their stories, the loved ones remain stuck in unprocessed p…
01:06:04 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
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