"I think the way I overcome things is not by thinking of them as happening to me but happening for me and what is the lesson that needs to be learned in the moment," she explained in a recent interview. "When I think of things that way and stay in a kind of a more positive mindset about it, it's easier to kind of embrace it for the lesson that it is."

"Because that's really what our hardships are in life," the "Get Right" singer said. "What am I supposed to learn here? There are no coincidences. This is not happening, you know, just randomly. It's happening for a reason."