{"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. 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In this episode, we discuss: The recovery industrial complex and how “heads in the beds” can sometimes matter more than individualized care What people mean when they talk about surviving 12-step dogma How rigid recovery models can become authoritarian, condescending, and psychologically unsafe The problem with fear-based messaging like “you’ll die if you leave” How the disease model of addiction can be both helpful and limiting — and why it doesn’t tell the whole story Why many people experience real healing through natural recovery (without formal programs) The difference between support vs. control , accountability vs. compliance Why harm reduction is often misunderstood — and who it actually serves The emotional impact of being told your thinking is defective, your intuition is dangerous, or your questioning is “denial” How recovery can (and should) support self-trust, autonomy, and nervous system safety Why leaving AA or structured recovery spaces does not equal failure What compassionate, f…","meta_description":"What happens when the very system that’s supposed to support healing starts to feel controlling, fear-based, or limiting? 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