Skip to content

About SoberSphere

Built for life in recovery.

SoberSphere brings together free information about substance use, treatment and life in recovery. It is for people exploring a change, considering care or living in recovery, and the people who support them. Our purpose is to make reliable public information easier to find and understand.

People sharing a conversation in a neighborhood library.

Why we are here

Less time searching.
Clearer information.

A question about rehab may lead to questions about work, bills or family. SoberSphere covers treatment and the everyday concerns that continue after a program ends.

Understand treatment before deciding.

Our founders and management bring experience in the treatment industry. Through that work, we saw a familiar problem on the internet: a search for plain information lands on advertising, directories and lead forms before anyone has explained what treatment is.

Treatment 101 explains what treatment involves, what to expect, what to ask and what happens afterward. It brings together public information to help you prepare for a conversation. SoberSphere does not rank, recommend or refer treatment centers.

A close-up of a reader comparing a plain reference book with notes beside an unbranded laptop in a public library.
Illustrative image, generated with AI.

Help with everyday life in recovery.

Getting sober can leave plenty to figure out: work, money, housing, trust, friendships or what to do with a quiet evening. We saw a need for information about these concerns, including finding things to enjoy.

SoberSphere covers these questions for people in early recovery and those who have been in recovery for years.

A wide street-level view of a modest neighborhood repair cafe where adults fix a chair and a small lamp together.
Illustrative image, generated with AI.

How to use the site

Browse by situation or topic.

Find Your Path offers reading for five situations: understanding treatment, early recovery, long-term recovery, exploring change and supporting someone. You can use more than one path.

Topics organizes concerns under You, Your life and Your people. The twelve topics include hard days, money, relationships and finding support. Each has an introduction, available reading and public resources.

The same guides, different ways to find them. Paths and Topics draw from one collection. You can also use “Search the library” in the footer.

Ask Harper.

Harper offers a first conversation about substance use and recovery. Read what it can and cannot do.

Meet Harper

Public education / Free membership

Read freely.
Member tools are next.

You can read every public page and follow links to public resources without an account.

Membership is free. Guide saving, priorities and saved checklists are being prepared. All public information remains available whether or not you join.

Our approach

Clear about what
you are reading.

Sources are linked in the text. Guides link to the public sources supporting their claims and identify SoberSphere’s interpretation. They provide general information, not advice about your individual circumstances.

Review is visible. Published guide pages identify their current review status. Specialist review is considered according to the content; no medical review is claimed for this edition. A source link is not a medical-review endorsement.

Unfinished work is labeled. Team and reviewer placeholders are marked. Company blog articles are identified as editorial writing.

Who pays for this. SoberSphere is free to read, free to join, and carries no advertising. Like many member organizations, we are sometimes compensated when members use non-clinical products and services offered through member Benefits — things like classes, tools and everyday services. Every such relationship is disclosed where it appears. No treatment provider pays for, sponsors or influences anything on SoberSphere, and nothing here is a referral.

AI images are labeled. Editorial photographs, illustrations and video on this site are AI-generated. They do not depict SoberSphere’s team, reviewers or members.

The people behind SoberSphere

Team & medical reviewers

Team

This section will introduce the people responsible for SoberSphere, their roles and their relevant backgrounds. Profiles will be added when those details are confirmed.

Profiles to come

Medical reviewers

When qualified reviewers have reviewed material, this section will identify them, their credentials and the work they reviewed. No medical-review endorsement is claimed for this edition.

Reviewer profiles to come