What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.

People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

Get support and be surrounded by people who love you. Sit with the discomfort and the emotions instead of distracting yourself and numbing the pain, or it will just haunt you in another form in the future. Don't be afraid of the pain and darkness. There's information there. There's a lesson to be learned. You can use the experience as a catalyst for growth.

Chemistry does not guarantee compatibility.

You allow people to treat you the way they do. Your energy, confidence and attitude is the currency that others will transact with.

You cannot teach ambition.