Yes, there absolutely is. I've been through a couple rounds of working through the sexual side effects of childhood sexual abuse. Not easy, not a smooth road, but empowering, healing, amazing.

I hope and suspect you might be relieved once you begin this time. After doing the wrenching, painful work of dealing with the original abuse itself and like you say, making the present day connections, I found the other work to be... intimidating, but the relief was faster than I expected, I found a great deal of it just in disclosing. Getting up the courage to discuss the present day sexual stuff was very hard, but.... once done, got easier to work through I think than some of the other stuff was for me. My second round is in progress, so, I won't say I'm perfectly content but I can assure you that there is a bright, shining, warm light at the end of the tunnel.

Anticipating trouble can really make it harder, especially since you had things go so far south the first time: I've had experiences like that too, have PTSD, which sort of epitomizes the fear of the past repeating, but.... no matter how strong or convincing that fear is.... it is just a fear, doesn't have to be reality, especially since you say "my then-husband. Good for you.