Thanks for the advice. I agree with your strategy about making new memories. When it comes to family, I haven't had enough happen yet to replace family memories with good ones. I think that having my own family will be a strong factor in the replacement of the bad ones, but I'm not there yet in my life, so I'll try to let time heal for now and put less importance on the past to the best of my abilities.
As for posting on this topic publicly, I really find that it helps me at this stage and during the harder times. While I sacrifice info/power, I get a lot of it back in return to cancel out the downside.