Thank you so much rabbi you lifted a whole bunch of weight off my shoulders. But I have one question. How do I know that I actually made teshuvah? Like how do I know that I’ve actually been forgiven and I don’t have to think about my past sins anymore and move on and I’m actually close to Hashem again?

Shalom, Hashem loves you and wants to accept your teshuvah. The Rambam writes that the real test of teshuvah is that a person not sin again in the same sin. Kol Tuv