For years, maybe decades, your substance or behavior made decisions for you. Where you went, who you spent time with, how you spent your money, what you did with your time. It was exhausting and destructive, but in a weird way, it was also simple. Your life had a structure, even if that structure was slowly killing you.

Now that structure is gone. And you're expected to just know how to build a new one?

The truth is, most of us don't.