Changing a bad day into good

I was reading one of the post about flashbacks.  It got me to think about another bad day in my life and what I did to change the bad memories to good.  I had a very bad miscarrage years ago.  It was a difficult time, ending in divorce and many sleepless nights.  I survived, but every year on the anniversary, I suffered.  One day I decided I wanted to change that.  I was tired of dreading the day it all happened.  Now,  I rarely even remember the day.  Most of the time it's a full week later before I even think of it. 
How did I do it?
I scheduled good things on that day.  Each year, instead of staying home and crying, I would schedule some sort of event:  A party, a trip somewhere exciting, etc.  The next year instead of the day being about loss, it was a memory of the events of the party, or how fun the trip was.  After five years, I had five wonderful years of memories. 
I remarried my husband six years later.  He proposed to me again on that special day.  So now, when I think of January 6, it's the day my husband proposed, it's the day I went on vacation.  And it's the day of the party.