Your body knows
before you do.
Sober reads the physiological whisper of relapse — hours before the conscious mind hears it. For coaches, clinicians, and the people who love someone in recovery.
See If It's Right for YouEarlier detection
Before the urge surfaces consciously
Biomarkers read
Skin conductance · HRV · Sleep architecture
Alert to coach
Real-time push notification window
Dr. Miriam Osei-Bonsu
MD, FASAM · Board-Certified Addiction Psychiatrist, Johns Hopkins Affiliate
Relapse doesn't begin in the mind. It begins in the autonomic nervous system — days before the person consciously experiences craving.
The neuroscience is unambiguous: the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis begins dysregulating 48 to 72 hours before a relapse event. Skin conductance spikes. HRV collapses. Sleep architecture fragments at the slow-wave stage. These are not subtle signals — they're physiological alarms that have simply had no receiver. Until now, clinicians had to wait for Tuesday's session to hear what the body was already screaming on Sunday.
Leanne Castellano
Certified Recovery Support Specialist · 9 years, 30-client caseload
I went from finding out three days later that someone relapsed to having a six-hour window to call. That's not a feature. That's everything.
Managing thirty clients in active recovery means you are always fighting information latency. You ask at Tuesday's check-in how Sunday went, and you're getting a story shaped by shame and memory. With Sober, I received a gentle alert Sunday at 2 PM. I called Marcus at 3. He didn't pick up. I called again at 4. He did. He told me later he'd been standing in a parking lot for forty minutes deciding. That call was the deciding. I've had four moments like that in eight months. Four.
Daniel Pruitt
4 years, 7 months sober · Former client, now peer mentor
The band vibrated on a Thursday afternoon. I didn't know why. I called my sponsor before I even knew I needed to.
I didn't trust it at first. Felt like surveillance. My counselor explained it differently — she said it's not watching you, it's watching for you. There's a difference. The Thursday it buzzed I was in a gas station parking lot and I hadn't consciously thought about using in weeks. But something in my body knew. I called James before I even walked inside. He talked to me for twenty minutes. I drove home. That was fourteen months ago. I still wear it.
The worst part might actually be behind you.
Sober isn't for everyone. That's why we built a short guided eligibility walkthrough — so you know within minutes whether it fits your situation, your caseload, or your family.
Sober is a clinical-grade monitoring device. All data is encrypted, HIPAA-compliant, and never sold to third parties.