🔐 The Locked Door and the Brave Key

Navigating Memory, Safety & Gentle Healing

Some wounds don’t speak in full sentences. Especially the ones shaped in childhood, where the memory fades not because it’s forgotten, but because it was too much to carry at the time.

At age 11, a young girl found herself in an unsafe space, surrounded by emotional confusion and blurred boundaries. Years later, fragments of that experience emerged, not as clear narratives, but through tears, silence, and sudden grief.

In therapy, we don’t rush to open these locked doors. We craft a brave key. Not the kind that forces entry, but one that knocks gently. We sit beside it. We breathe. We wait.

Each worksheet completed, each reflection written, helps shape that key. And when the time is right, the door opens, not to relive what hurt, but to rearrange it… to name it… to allow light to reach places silence once lived.

Written by: Naazi Morad
Creative Therapeutic Practitioner | Advocate for Emotional Healing