These are all excellent questions and goals, and not things you have to "get over" by yourself. A therapist can and will help you with these things.
When you go to a therapist, 9 times out of 10 they will ask you what your therapy goals are. What you have said here is an excellent answer.
As a contrast, when I met my current therapist for the first time, she asked me what my goal was and I didn't know anything specific so I said "I just want to feel better." She told me that was called a "morbid goal," aka a goal that could be achieved by death. (Things like "I want the pain to end," "I don't want to feel bad anymore," etc.) She wanted me to come up with concrete goals, which is exactly what you've done.
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