{"podcast":{"title":"Rewired Sober","slug":"rewired-sober-7110186","podcast_index_feed_id":7110186,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/rewiredsober/","website_url":"https://rewiredsober.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d80d3dd9-542a-4703-8bb3-d1a805b0d894/Rewired-Sober-3.jpg","author":"Kate Vitela","episode_count":80,"summary":"Rewired Sober is a sobriety and recovery podcast for women who are tired of surface-level self-help and ready for real change. Hosted by psychiatric nurse, addiction specialist, and recovery coach Kate Vitela, RN, this podcast explores the neuroscience of addiction, emotional sobriety, mindset change, and the messy, honest reality of rebuilding your life after quitting drinking. This is not a preachy recovery podcast full of toxic positivity or shame. It’s real conversations about: women and alcohol gray area drinking anxiety and emotional regulation perfectionism and people pleasing cravings and habit loops neuroplasticity and brain rewiring identity in midlife anger, grief, and healing creativity, fashion, and self-expression in recovery relationships, boundaries, and self-trust learning how to feel your feelings without numbing them Kate combines clinical insight, lived experience, humor, and a feminist lens to help women understand why they drink, not just how to stop. Whether you’re sober curious, newly alcohol-free, or years into recovery and wondering “now what?” — this podcast is designed to help you build a life that actually feels good to live. If you’re looking for a so…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T18:18:31.848618+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186"},"episode":{"title":"EP 54: The Beautiful Girl Trap: Pop Culture, Drunkorexia & The Weaponized Shame","slug":"ep-54-the-beautiful-girl-trap-pop-culture-drunkorexia-the-weaponized-shame","published_at":"2025-12-30T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186/ep-54-the-beautiful-girl-trap-pop-culture-drunkorexia-the-weaponized-shame","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186","url":"https://rewiredsober.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e0942c4c-83c8-49b3-abd2-6944afd9b319.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Rewired Sober™ , we’re going straight for the jugular: pop culture, body image, drunkorexia, and the weaponized shame that’s kept women small, hungry, distracted, and drinking for decades. I break down how Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl exposes the pressure cooker women have lived in for the last 20 years — the beauty standards, the public scrutiny, the Kardashian-era body illusions, the return of heroin-chic, the Jessica Simpson mom-jean debacle — and how all of it shaped not just how women see themselves… but how women cope. Then I bring in Caroline Knapp’s Appetites and her concept of “the real hungers” — the soul-level needs women are taught to starve. Not food. Not jeans sizes. But belonging, rest, connection, desire, meaning, permission to take up space. We talk about what happens when those needs get rerouted into dieting, perfectionism, and eventually, drinking. We get honest about drunkorexia — the collision between diet culture and drinking culture — and why it’s not a quirky college fad, but a symptom of patriarchy’s oldest trick: keep women underfed, self-conscious, tipsy, ashamed, and too exhausted to revolt. We cover: How pop culture trained women to hate their bodies Why women’s binge drinking nearly doubled in the last two decades How shame becomes internalized and fuels the drinking loop Why wine culture and diet culture are sisters The neuroscience behind hungry brains + alcohol How patriarchy profits when women are distracted by self-maintenance And why sobriety is, at its core, a feminist act of resistance If you’ve ever felt like you had to be thin, quiet, good, small, or “fine”… this episode will hit you right in the truth. Rewired Sober 1:1 Coaching Spots Are Open (But Fill Up Fast) Start anytime and get 3 months of guidance fro…","meta_description":"In this episode of Rewired Sober™ , we’re going straight for the jugular: pop culture, body image, drunkorexia, and the weaponized shame that’s kept women…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2426,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rewired-sober-7110186/episodes/ep-54-the-beautiful-girl-trap-pop-culture-drunkorexia-the-weaponized-shame/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186/ep-54-the-beautiful-girl-trap-pop-culture-drunkorexia-the-weaponized-shame.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}