Eyewitness to Therapy Episode 3: Letting Go of I Don't Matter

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In this therapy session, I failed to push the record button
immediately and so we pick up on Olivia expressing her
frustration with her parents a couple of minutes into the
interview, primarily surrounding their lack of engagement with
her and her child… She feels they are not interested in being
grandparents and wish they would engage more with her
son… 

Olivia describes her relationship with her parents as
surface-level and distant, a pattern that she stated has been
longstanding.

Her relationship with her parents is further complicated by her
perception of her sister as the 'golden child,' who receives more
attention and interest from their parents. Olivia wishes for more
normalcy in her relationship with her parents and hopes they
would express more interest in her life, akin to the interest
they show in her sister's life.

The therapy session concluded with the therapist encouraging
Olivia to continue exploring these feelings in her daily life and
to work on the realization that she matters and deserves
attention. The therapist also suggested an easy technique to help
Ariel cope: asking herself if she could let go of these negative
feelings; if she would let them go; and deciding when she could
do this.