"One way to build those connections is to start with taking a look at yourself and barriers that you've developed for really good reasons," she said. "Growing up in a family where there's addiction and chaos, you've developed certain coping that serves you well and helps you survive when you're in that environment. And then you find when you're out of that environment that it doesn't work so well. So I think that's a ripe time to take a step back and think about what you want, think about why it is that you might have built these barriers, and then areas that you connect to."