When the Click Happened: Shadows Made Small
- therapywithsakina
- Sep 11
- 1 min read
A client once shared how difficult her early married years were. Every small mistake was magnified, and arguments in the house left her anxious. She recalled a vivid memory sitting in the kitchen, crying, trying to call her parents after her mother-in-law’s anger fell on her.
As she narrated this, the overwhelm was palpable. The memory felt alive, like it was happening now.
I invited her to try something different to edit that visual. She began by removing herself from the scene, painting it black, shrinking it, and making it disappear again and again. Later, when I distracted her and asked her to recall the memory, she tried…and couldn’t.
That was the moment the click happened. She smiled in disbelief and said, "Ma’am, aise bhi hota hai? Yeh toh dimaag ka khel hai."
Sometimes, healing begins when we realize that the brain is not just a storehouse of pain—it can also be a powerful space of transformation.
What memory would you edit, if you knew you could change how it lives inside you?

The gentlest healing doesn’t always come from talking.
Sometimes it’s in reshaping a memory, softening its edges, and realizing it no longer holds the same power.
The mind can replay pain—but it can also rewrite freedom.