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.