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Are you tired of feeling anxious and overwhelmed with life? Would you like to feel more in control?

27/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

When we think of health, we tend to prioritise physical well-being at the expense of mental health. Instead, we should tackle mental health the same way we tackle physical health.
The link between mental health and physical health is often misunderstood. They’re often thought of as separate entities, but the two go hand in hand.
Poor mental health can affect your ability to make healthy decisions and fight off chronic diseases. What’s more, neglecting your mental health can lead to more serious health complications such as:
Heart disease, high blood pressure, weakened immune system, asthma and obesity.
People who exercise regularly tend to do so because it gives them an enormous sense of well-being. Regular exercise can have a profoundly positive impact on depression and anxiety, and it also relieves stress, improves memory, helps you sleep better, and boosts your overall mood.
Even if you’re not suffering from a mental health problem, regular physical activity can still offer a welcome boost to your mood, outlook, and mental well-being.
Poor physical health can lead to an increased risk of developing mental health problems. Similarly, poor mental health can negatively impact on physical health. Therefore attending to both can significantly benefit our health and our wellbeing as a whole.

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26/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

We literally cannot control how any other person is going to feel, think, or treat us. When we come to recognise that as an actual fact, we can turn our focus to the only thing in this life that we actually can control, and that is how we feel about ourselves.
By seeking other people’s approval of us we literally give away our ability to control knowing who we are. We give up all ability to control our own happiness by placing that power in the hands of anyone who wants to form opinions about us. We can be left feeling helpless.
What is more important is how we see ourselves. We have to work hard to be proud of who we are, and not be worrying about what someone else thinks of us. When we forget about seeking other people’s approval, we begin to live our life focused on doing the best we can each day. We no longer need to compete with anyone else but ourselves.
This of course can be easier said than done for some of us. Talking to a counselor can help you to identify the negative beliefs about yourself that you hold on to and understand how and why these may have developed.
Get in touch to see how I may be able to help you.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

25/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

Our thoughts can have very powerful effects on how we feel and what we do.
What makes a thought feel real is the attention we bring to it. We make a thought into a solid object by focusing on it and relating to it as if it is an event happening in the world somewhere.
It is not that thoughts in themselves are a problem. The problem is, that as we are thinking, we experience all the accompanying fight/flight hormonal and nervous system changes that go along with the thoughts. Over the long term, this can take a significant toll on our health.
So developing the skill of letting thoughts come and go, regardless of whether we like them or not can help to reduce the habit of investing in our thoughts, and help us to learn to relate to them differently, as ‘just thoughts.’

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

24/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

Sometimes our thoughts can feel like a huge tangled, jumbled knot.There can be so many different strands tangled together that the entire mishmash can feel overwhelming.
Counselling can help to unravel these thoughts through focused, purposeful discussion. Talking to a counsellor can help you to maybe identify patterns and themes to your thought processes. You start to see separate threads emerge even if they are still tangled. Sometimes just finding the space between the thoughts (like loosening the knots) brings a sense of relief. Sorting through your issues, helps you to develop an understanding of how ideas connect through an interrelated pattern.
This can ultimately lead to you making new sense of the loosened tangled thread of ideas by organising and recategorising them. A new perspective emerges as each thread is unravelled.
Having someone walk alongside us on the journey of untangling the knots in our life can make all the difference.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

22/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

If you experience anxiety it can feel overwhelming and be hard to understand or make sense of. Often people find it very hard to understand just where their anxiety comes from because there is not always an obvious trigger.
Try to pay attention to what is happening in different areas of your body, put it into context, it can help you to recognise what has triggered the anxiety and process the difficult feelings.
Talking to a counsellor can help you to understand and manage your anxiety more effectively.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

21/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

Sometimes life can feel difficult and our problems feel like a massive challenge, insurmountable to even the strongest among us. And the inability to overcome them can make us feel worse.
When the end goal seems impossible, it can help to take your focus from it and simply try to find a way to start. Even if it’s the smallest, seemingly insignificant step. Surprisingly, small steps can have a big effect.
A focus on small steps helps us get started. After all, they don’t feel overwhelming and small, consistent steps add up. Small steps add up to impressive gains. Once we start and realise some early success, it’s easier to continue. Small steps are attainable and are specifically designed to not feel overwhelming. They are also easier to fit into hectic days, which most people face on a regular basis.
So when what you are facing seems overwhelming, start by making small steps and before long those small steps will add up to movement and progress and you will realise you have achieved more than you thought was even possible.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

20/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

We can find ourselves spending a lot of our time focusing on what other people think of us. However sometimes we just don't click with someone else... and that's ok. That doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you or something wrong with them.
Real connection is more than just talking to others or sharing interests. Connecting with others is a sense of being open and available to another person, even as you feel they are open and available to you.
When we feel we don’t connect with another we can often internalise it and feel like it’s our fault or we’re doing something wrong. It’s important to recognise that there are two people who are responsible for the interaction or connection, you and the other person. You both share that responsibility and sometimes when the balance is unequal then there is disconnection. You may be doing all you can but if the other person is not meeting you half way then that is their responsibility. This provides opportunity to explore your role and their role within this and make choices or changes.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

19/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.
Boundaries can be defined as the limits we set with other people, which indicate what we find acceptable and unacceptable in their behaviour towards us. The ability to know our boundaries generally comes from a healthy sense of self-worth, or valuing ourselves in a way that is not dependent on other people or the feelings they have towards us.
Weak interpersonal boundaries often result in an individual feeling emotionally drained and used by others. Weak boundaries may mean an individual is more susceptible to being taken advantage of by others.
Setting boundaries does not always come easily. If you’re having a hard time with boundaries then seek some support. Talking to a counsellor can help you establish what is important to you and what your priorities are. Together you can practice setting the boundaries that you need to prioritise yourself.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.Com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

18/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

People go to self-defeating lengths to elude the possibility of being negatively judged by others. They avoid telling people what they want to tell them. They don’t speak up in class or at work meetings.
This fear of judgment is linked to the desire to be liked by all at all times. But because that is impossible, this is a losing game that keeps people from uninhibitedly experiencing and expressing their true selves.
Let’s face it, humans are always judging others—good/bad or like/dislike, with lots of nuance in between. And as new information comes in, the human mind reassesses: It is an ongoing process.
We tend to assume that we know what other people are thinking about us but assumptions often lead to bad conclusions. Therefore, we construct a reality in our mind that we think exists. But this is just our interpretation of reality – and everyone has their own.
People will judge you and we will judge them. It’s a fact of life. But these judgements are generally harmless and fleeting and also most of the time we will never even know about them as most people rarely share these thoughts with us. Most of the time people aren’t judging us and when they are, they are almost never judging us as harshly as we do ourselves.
Our judgements are usually based on our own insecurities or fears. Talking to a counsellor can help you explore these insecurities and understand why they exist.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

17/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

One of the biggest misconceptions about therapy is that it’s only intended to treat serious clinical mental illness or to help alleviate the most severe traumas. However, the beauty of therapy is that it’s quite the opposite — it’s designed to help with nearly every aspect of life, from the seemingly benign to the most devastating.
Therapy can provide you with a different perspective on life. A therapist can help you piece together correlations and causes for behaviours and feelings that you may not have realised otherwise.
Therapy can help you work through your everyday life and feelings. We all go through tough times and when we’re living life day by day, we tend to deal with the bad days or problems, then move on. One crisis at a time.
Therapy can help you to understand why
certain bad days feel worse, why you may react to things the way you do and how you can alter your mindset to improve your wellbeing.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

15/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

With so much happening in life it can feel difficult to get up in the morning, let alone reach out for help. However, the most powerful choice we can make is to reach out when life gets overwhelming.
Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. Humans are built for connection and community.
We may assume that we’re alone in what we’re dealing with, and that no one else will understand. Maybe we assume we’ll be a “burden,” or maybe we’ve isolated ourselves from loved ones and assume no one wants to listen.
Talking to someone in a safe space can help us figure out what we’re feeling. Asking for help can seem scary, difficult, and tiring, but so worth it. We don’t have to carry the burdens of life on our own.

🌐LucyBorthwickcounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

14/11/2025

Lucy Borthwick Counselling
-Counselling Practice based in Hagley-

How many times have you found yourself aching to go back to toxic people - an ex or a friend who always puts you down?
Sometimes we stay in bad, even toxic relationships longer than we really want to. It’s not because we’re addicted to the chaos, nor because we want to be treated badly. Most likely, every once in a while, we see a tiny glimmer of hope that things are going to get better. We may miss warning signs in our relationship which are obvious to others, perhaps because we’re looking through a lens of compassion and hope at our partner and the relationship dynamics in the relationship.
Trying to break free from a toxic relationship, and then returning to it, feeds and fuels an unhealthy cycle of low self-esteem and feelings of worthlessness. These feelings can make us believe that we are undeserving of, unworthy of, or not good enough for a better love.
Talking to a counsellor an help you to explore the reasons why you are in this type of relationship and what keeps you there. A counsellor can help you to understand more about yourself and what you need and want looking at how you can make different choices about your life.

🌐LucyBorthwickCounselling.com
📧Lborthwickcounselling@gmail.com
☎️Tel: 07392 903 735

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Rooks Meadow
Stakenbridge
DY9OPT

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Monday	9:30am - 7:30pm
Tuesday	10:30am - 7:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 7:30pm
Thursday	10:30am - 7:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 2pm

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