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
Ep32 – Sex Miseducation: The Lasting Impact
Was your middle school sex ed experience as shrouded in shameful secrecy and as incomplete as ours? In this episode, Matt and Debbie talk about the lasting negative impact of our society's refusal to…
00:56:18 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
EP31 – The Destruction of Intimacy in our Alcoholic Marriage
Sheri and Matt dive deeper than ever before into the intimate details of our alcoholic marriage. Our relationship started in a very typical manner - we mixed booze and romance and lowered all inhibit…
00:59:07 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Ep30 – Humor is the Ultimate Icebreaker with Debbie Scheer
The damage done by alcohol is no laughing matter, but if we lighten up and loosen up, honest, healing conversation often follows. No one knows more about using humor as the ultimate icebreaker when d…
01:02:29 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Ep29 – Doritos Made Me an Alcoholic: The Why, the How and the Stigma of Alcoholism
To blame my alcoholism on Doritos is a bold statement, but the more we learn about neurochemistry and the way our brains process inputs, the more obvious the link between my adolescent snack patterns…
00:46:34 |
Mon 03 Feb 2020
Ep28 – Bar Zero: Great Food, Exotic Drinks, Fun People with No Alcohol
Emily Schrader has always been a risk taker. Drinking alcohol and doing drugs was a natural fit for a woman living life on the edge. Now, with 15 years of sobriety, she is taking a different kind of …
01:02:02 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Ep27 – Accomplishment Black Hole
I'm supposed to feel rested coming off the holidays, right? So why do I feel so bad - worthless and sinking? Some people drink to avoid processing trauma, abuse or neglect. High-functioning alcoholic…
00:34:54 |
Wed 08 Jan 2020
Ep26 – Surviving the Holidays Sober
This is our third consecutive sober holiday season, and it is monumentally better for both my wife and me. In this episode, Sheri and I discuss the differences in Christmas number three on our quest …
00:36:53 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Ep25 – My Alcoholism is Not a Spiritual Problem
In this episode, I share a speech I gave to a community of people recovering from alcoholism through the twelve steps. It was not an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, though many of the people in the aud…
00:17:44 |
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Ep24 – When Alcohol Stops Working with Jolene Park
Jolene Park and her friends were like the cast of Sex in the City with their nights on the town and affinity for classy wines while complaining about their relationship struggles. The dots where ther…
01:03:13 |
Mon 11 Nov 2019
Ep23 – Healthy Delay: The Pace of Recovery for an Alcoholic Spouse
When I was trying to gain my permanent sobriety, I needed my wife's support more than ever. I thought her cautions attitude and reserved enthusiasm was selfish on her part. I didn't understand that s…
00:49:31 |
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Ep22 – Gray Area Drinking with Christy Wynne
Christy Wynne didn't have a spectacular, catastrophic, up-in-flames relationship with alcohol. Sure, she partied for many years, but she decided to leave the booze behind because she just didn't feel…
00:45:03 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Ep21 – Sheri’s Social Drinking: Alcohol Remains Toxic to Our Marriage
The damage done to our marriage by my active alcoholism was massive. We are still trying to deal with the resentment, and repair trust and our intimate relationship. But now, we face an unexpected ch…
00:58:38 |
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Ep20 – Alcoholism is More Prolific than Cancer, and We Are the Cure
Almost 15 million Americans have cancer, but there are more than 15 million American alcoholics. Addiction to alcoholism touches all of our lives. In this speech designed to inform and destigmatize, …
00:26:59 |
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Ep19 – Fearless Teen Drinking: Make Alcohol a Choice
Listen to this speech I wrote for the students at a large, racially and economically diverse high school after they experienced a series of brazen and dangerous incidents of alcohol abuse. We can't c…
00:20:33 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
Ep18 – Getting Our Marriage Unstuck with Jason & Lana
Sheri and I are stuck. We have made tremendous progress in the recovery of our relationship, now in the third year of my sobriety, but resentments from the past continue to haunt us. We have unpacked…
00:40:39 |
Mon 12 Aug 2019
Ep17 – Sheri’s Story, Part 2: Recovering Our Marriage
In part two of a three part series about how Matt's alcoholism has damaged our marriage, Sheri talks about the process of recovering our marriage from the depths of distrust and deceit. While we've m…
01:08:29 |
Tue 09 Jul 2019
Ep16 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 6
God has an important place in my life. He always has. I am a very spiritual person, and I pray constantly both now and back when I was in active alcoholism. That's why I don't believe God wants us to…
00:30:51 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Ep15 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 5
Relationships are so important to our happiness and our success in early sobriety. Taking alcohol out of our relationships actually does not fix the problems that our years of drinking caused. Removi…
00:36:26 |
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Ep14 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 4
The disease of alcoholism has many victims. The spouses and children of an alcoholic are victims. The parents and friends of an alcoholic are victims, too. The victim we forget is the alcoholic. If y…
00:32:32 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
Ep13 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 3
In the third week of the SHOUT Sobriety program, we discuss two very important topics in early sobriety.
We have to be patient with ourselves and our brains as we begin to recover from alcoholism. N…
We have to be patient with ourselves and our brains as we begin to recover from alcoholism. N…
00:36:16 |
Sat 15 Jun 2019
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