• You have to be your own best friend, and treat yourself like it.

• You have to push yourself.

• You need to embrace your negative thoughts and feelings, and try to understand why they are there.

• Try to remember you are not alone.

• Journal; write down your thoughts, goals and/or anything that comes to mind.

• You need to remember to take care of each part of yourself; spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally.

• Give back to yourself.

• Allow yourself to be soft and vulnerable.

• You need to remember that the thoughts and feelings that do not serve you need to be let go.

• If you can, try to find something productive to do to refocus your pain.