Has anyone ever moved away (see post)

I'm looking at parts of a book recommended by my therapist. According to it, sometimes being around family members who tried to hide or not acknowledge the abuse can be a trigger, which makes sense.

has anyone ever moved and experienced relief? or is it better to just stay away? or do i continue to be triggered until i get over it? what have you tried?

This is my first post. I've been recently triggered and feel scared by the way i reacted. sorry i haven't done an intro post or anything

hey there
I only started to get a chance to heal when I moved away. i also cut contact with more and more family members over the last 4 years and it turned out to be necessary to find the peace to heal.

usually therapists will insist that you are not in contact with abusers anymore if you want to do exposure therapy and work through your trauma. there has even been a law suit where a patient actually won against a therapist who did not make sure of that because it can make healing impossible.
so cutting contact with abusers is always a good idea.

I let go of my siblings as well because they kept communicating messages from the abusers or the same mindset, like flying monkeys, trying to make me return into an abusive relationship pattern with family. It is hard and sad but it is also giving me more peace of mind.
somehow I didn't have to move away very far. family simply scattered because somehow everyone wanted to get some distance to the abusive system we grew up in...

Thank you for your input. I am really just not sure what to do and how to do it. It wasn't incestious, but it's my a relative of a family member. It's so hard to know what's exactly best.