"Let Me Listen To Me and Not To Them." -Gertrude Stein
You must listen to yourself. You are the only judge of truth within. Be strong and fear not the words of others. They shall have no effect on you. Yours is a truth that will transcend the page and the lip and live beyond your lifetime for your feelings will live on in your DNA. The truths you come to embrace shall affect your future generations. That is the power of the now moment.
Every trauma that you free yourself from will free it from the DNA of your children and your children's children.