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
Ep73 – Running into the Solution with Amber Graziano
She was an award winning and highly recruited high school athlete. She received a full-ride division one scholarship to Baylor University for her skills on the softball diamond. And she drank it all …
01:04:54 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
Ep72 – Another Day Closer to Forever with Dana and Frank
Sheri and Matt welcome Dana and Frank to the pocast. This is the first time they have interviewed a couple working to recover their marriage. Frank has over a year of sobriety, and they feel like the…
01:03:29 |
Mon 01 Feb 2021
Ep71 – What Goes Down Must Come Up
The progression into alcoholism is always the same. Sure, some of the details are different, and the ultimate rock-bottom destination - The Pit, as Matt likes to call it - varies from story to story.…
01:03:18 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Ep70 – Barbara’s Recovery from Sacrificing Herself
Doctor's take an oath to do no harm. When the surgeons operated on Barbara, she was an exception. They knew they risked harming her. Barbara knew it, too, but she sacrificed herself to save the husba…
01:17:15 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
Ep69 – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
This is the question we hear most often from our listeners, so on this episode, Sheri and Matt discuss how she processed this painful decision in their alcoholic marriage. Matt asks Sheri about how t…
01:06:53 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
Ep68 – Can Anyone Hear Me? Communication Challenges in Sheri’s Recovery
Family communication is fraught with pitfalls whether alcoholism is a factor or not. But with sobriety, we can make progress in our discovery. In this episode, Sheri and Matt discuss a family communi…
00:43:17 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
Ep67 – Saved by Sobriety: The House Fire Cheryl Survived
Have you ever cheated death? Have you ever had too much to drink, and put yourself in a dangerous situation? Have you ever passed out unable to protect yourself should the need arise? Have you ever l…
00:52:12 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Ep66 – Be the Hero and Save Yourself
Low self esteem, insecurity and negative self talk - these issues plague so many of us, and they are particularly detrimental to people who love alcoholics and are trying to recover from trauma and c…
01:03:58 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Ep65 – Karen Explains that You can have a Life on the Other Side
Karen's life did not go as planned. She married the man she loved, and they had four kids together. So far, so good. But when the progression of her husband's drinking spiraled out of control, she re…
01:08:36 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
Ep64 – soberevolution: Who Should Read this Book?
Our book, soberevolution: Evolve into Sobriety and Recover Your Alcoholic Marriage, isn't for everybody. It is for high-functioning alcoholics who are considering sobriety, are sober, or should be so…
01:04:41 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
Ep63 – The Holiday Season: Tinsel & Candy Cane Covered Trauma
It's a Wonderful Life or White Christmas - who has experienced a holiday season that lives up to those perfect pictures of love, family and humanity? Norman Rockwell sets the bar pretty high, yet we …
00:45:14 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Ep62 – You’ve Done Nothing Wrong. Why are you So Ashamed?
The shame of alcoholism is not reserved only for the drinkers. The loved ones of drinkers feel an enormous amount of shame - for letting it get so bad and for being unable to fix the problems in the …
01:04:25 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Ep61 – Traci on Healing Her Broken Heart
The anger and resentment from her husband's drinking was building inside our friend, Traci. If he kept drinking, she faced a selfless and dreadful decision. "I loved him too much to stay and punish h…
01:12:37 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Ep60 – Why are we still so angry?
If you've ever looked for the root cause of your anger, you've probably read or heard that anger is the outward manifestation of fear. There's wisdom there, but it goes deeper. In this episode, Sheri…
01:00:34 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
Ep58 – Neither of You are to Blame
Alcoholism is so insidious because of how it creeps into relationships and destroys us from the inside. When did my husband turn from a sweet, loving man into such a repulsive tyrant? When did my wif…
00:47:54 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
Ep57 – Kate Flourishing in the Truth
Sheri and Matt are joined on this episode by a fellow survivor of an alcoholic marriage, their good friend and Denver neighbor, Kate. Just like Sheri, Kate endured years of gaslighting, denial and pr…
01:08:32 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Ep56 – Our Wedding: Making the Trauma Typical
Sheri and Matt tell the story of the trauma of their wedding. Devastating and heartbreaking? Yes. Unusual? Sadly, no. It was such a shameful event that this is only the second time the couple has sha…
00:59:39 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
Ep55 – The 2 Keys to Ending the Alcoholism Epidemic
Being a part of the alcoholism recovery community is all about putting out fires that are already started. That's important, but that's not what this conversation is about. In this episode, Sheri and…
01:02:29 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
Ep54 – Jane’s Pain and Anger from Being In It
If you've listened to the Untoxicated Podcast before, you know Sheri's and Matt's story is not unique, because you are probably in the middle of a similar trauma. Still, experiencing alcoholism, as t…
01:21:55 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Ep53 – Inspiration from Matt’s Mediocrity
Listeners and readers often share that they can't imagine their alcoholic spouses reaching the level of clarity that Matt and Sheri share on this podcast. Matt is nothing special, and his mediocrity …
00:54:00 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
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