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Rewired Sober with Kate Vitela
Welcome to Rewired Sober, the podcast where science meets soul on the journey of women’s recovery and empowerment. Hosted by Kate Vitela, RN, a certified addiction and psychiatric-mental-health nurse coach, sober since 2018, this show dives deep into the neuroscience of addiction, healing, and habit change—and the spiritual awakening that follows.
Each episode blends real talk, humor, and motivation to help you understand how your brain rewires, how your body heals, and how your soul remembers who she is. From neuroplasticity and emotional regulation to intuition, self-trust, and radical self-love, you’ll learn practical tools and mindset shifts to stay sober, inspired, and grounded.
Because recovery isn’t just about not drinking—it’s about rewiring how you think, feel, and live. This is where science meets soul, and where women come to remember their power, their purpose, and their truth.
Rewired Sober is a feminist sobriety podcast for women in midlife and early recovery who are done being talked down to.
If you’ve quit drinking — or are thinking about it — and traditional recovery models left you feeling small, ashamed, or powerless, you’re not alone. And you’re not broken.
This podcast explores sobriety through neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and feminist self-trust, not moral failure or lifelong labels.
Hosted by Kate, a board-certified addiction and mental health registered nurse with over two decades of experience, a nurse coach, and a SHE RECOVERS® coach, Rewired Sober bridges clinical science with lived experience.
Kate brings a trauma-aware, no-shame lens to recovery — combining brain science, nervous system education, and soul-level inquiry to help women rebuild trust in themselves after alcohol.
This podcast is for women asking:
– Why does early sobriety feel so intense in my body and brain?
– What’s actually happening neurologically when I stop drinking?
– How do I rebuild self-trust after years of coping with alcohol?
– Is there a way to recover without shame, obedience, or surrendering my intuition?
Episodes blend science and soul — from how alcohol affects the female brain, to midlife nervous system shifts, to unlearning the cultural and patriarchal conditioning that taught women to numb, cope, and self-abandon.
This is not a 12-step podcast.
This is not a powerlessness model.
And it’s not about fixing what was never broken.
Rewired Sober is for women who want sobriety that makes them stronger, clearer, and more themselves — not smaller.
If you’re sober and wondering now what?
You’re in the right place.
⬇️ READY TO GO DEEPER?
If you’re a midlife woman questioning your relationship with alcohol or figuring out what comes next in sobriety, I’ve created resources to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
Nurses spend their careers taking care of everyone else. But what happens when the caregiver is the one who needs help?
In this episode, Kate sits down with Stephanie, an ICU nurse with 26 years of experience, a mother of three, and a powerful advocate for honesty and compassion in the conversation around addiction and recovery in healthcare.
Stephanie brings both clinical insight and lived experience to a topic that many nurses know exists—but rarely talk about openly: monitoring programs for healthcare professionals struggling with substance use.
After Kate came across one of Stephanie’s social media posts about receiving a random UA, it sparked a deeper conversation about the realities many nurses face behind the scenes. It also brought Kate back to the origin of her own podcast journey—when the show was first called “You’ve Been Selected,” a phrase that captures what it can feel like to suddenly find yourself navigating recovery systems you never expected to enter.
Together they explore the complex intersection of burnout, stigma, accountability, recovery, and motherhood, and ask a bigger question about healthcare culture:
Are the systems designed to help struggling professionals actually supporting healing—or simply monitoring behavior?
This conversation is not about avoiding responsibility. Patient safety and accountability matter. But so does compassion for the caregivers working in one of the most demanding professions on the planet.
This episode opens an honest discussion about what it looks like to fall, take responsibility, rebuild trust, and find your way forward as both a nurse and a human being.
In this episode we discuss:
• The intense pressures nurses face in high-acuity environments like the ICU
• The connection between burnout, substance use, and mental health in healthcare
• What it’s really like to enter a professional monitoring program
• The fear and stigma many nurses face when asking for help
• Accountability, recovery, and rebuilding a career after crisis
• Navigating motherhood and professional identity during recovery
• How healthcare systems can better support nurses before things reach a breaking point
If you’re a nurse—or anyone working in a high-pressure helping profession—this conversation offers an honest look at the human side of healthcare.
You are not the only one who has struggled, and there is a path forward.
Listen, reflect, and share this episode with a nurse who might need to hear it.
Connect With Kate: https://www.instagram.com/rewiredsober/
Guest Info: Stephanie Kelley https://www.instagram.com/sober_steph_mom_nurse/
Kate has been an RN in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. After getting sober she shifted her nursing career towards mental health and dug in hard into the recovery space. She is board certified in psychiatric, mental-health nursing and pursuing her board certification in addiction nursing. Kate works countless hours as the Director of Nursing of an inpatient behavioral health recovery facility. However, she never steps foot inside the locked hallways of her workplace without walking the talk.
