Non-productive rumination, where the same thoughts repeat without resolution, is not helpful for processing trauma.

“You know, when things are bouncing around in our minds, often it's very non-productive, right? It's the same thing over and over again. And that's not helpful for us, right?”

“So if we're just thinking about it and we're thinking in the same way we sort of in a sense always think about it, then all we're doing is reinforcing the trauma, right?”