Hey there Adore,
I'm with Ginger on this. I used to get my emotions all in a tangle over stuff my "toxic" family would say. I had to do the al-anon "no contact" thing to get my head straightened out. I adopted the attitude that the people who gave birth to me were just the biological accident of my existense. _Somebody_ had to donate the sperm and ova for me to get born, I just never had the opportunity to pick them out.
So yeah, go hit some pillows. Sometimes I use a broomstick, but have a spare broom ready cuz I've broken a few
Mike