@matigo well done, my friend.
I took a different journey insofar as I jumped off the cliff and had to face almost all the fears that built up for 25 years all at once. That and outside of my job, car, and a handful of baubles, I don’t have too much from my past life.
It also helps that I moved to a new part of the world for me. It’s also the kind of place you wouldn’t casually go to (e.g Nashville), which means the odds of encountering people I don’t want to deal with…are basically nil. Also, it’s all new to me, meaning very little to trigger bad memories.