How Do You Know When You've Processed Trauma?

Processing trauma for me is going from deflecting with humor to being able to hold a serious conversation about the trauma, and really verbally work through it with another person

In the last year, I’ve been followed by the phrase “Healing isn’t linear.” I swear it pops up everywhere.

Thank you. I do a lot of painting/art too. I feel like the more I talk about what happened, the more my “style”, or whatever you want to call it, regresses. These days, I’m lying on the floor on my belly finger painting.

I like to draw/paint things to process trauma. For me, I know I’m done processing it when I can think of the trauma without it hijacking my emotions.