You can have pain for gain, Cinthia tells us, or pain in vain.  You just can't have no pain.  The third core truth behind the "be your own best version" teaching is that pain in life cannot be avoided, and that learning to manage it in ways that help turn it to beauty is crucial to becoming all we are meant to become.  As an example, Cinthia shares some deep pain she faced in her own young adulthood and how she made intentional decisions to draw strength instead of bitterness from her experience.  Whatever you are facing, the pain is real, but it does not have the final word.