Difficulty learning your Heritage Language when the only exposure you get is from a toxic family?

I want to know if anyone else feels this, but has anyone experienced the feeling of having a deep interest in their language that their family happens to speak, and get a desire to learn it? I've realized I've had that, but I've associated my cultural language with hate and abuse because that's what my family was. It's difficult to look at my language and recognize it for it's beautiful literature, when your only exposure to it has been disgusting insults, threats, and manipulation. I associate it with harm and I want to get rid of it.

TL;DR I've had bad experiences with my only source of immersion of my heritage language (my family) and it makes it difficult to want to learn it. Has anyone else ever faced this, and gotten past it?

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