How do you move on from a very hurtful period in your life

Very slowly and with a lot of support from friends and family if you have it. When people say time heals all wounds its very true. Even though at this point in our life we do not want to hear it or believe it. It does. It sometimes helps to talk about it, I am not a big one for talking about my emotions or feeling so what I do is write. I keep a personal journal of emotional things that bother or upset me. Then when the time comes and I am past my hurt I burn the chapters as a final way of letting go.