Author: Ian Pilkington
I recently mentioned, in a LinkedIn post, some mental health wrestles I had in the middle of some hard life events. The actual content of the post is available online and it isn’t earth shattering in any way. The post received more engagement than any of the things I had posted in the last twelve […]
This article was originally published in the January editions of the Plymouth Chronicle. At the time of writing it’s the end of November, and Christmas is approaching in the form of Advent, a time of hope and anticipation in the Christian calendar. That sense of hopeful expectancy is shared pretty widely, among people of faith and […]
Sometimes life’s pressures get so overwhelming that our world shrinks to just the size of those pressures. Hope, fun, dreams, rest, faith, all are literally ‘out of sight’ because they are far from our minds. Our thoughts are full of worry and it’s as if we can only see a short distance ahead. For me, […]
“A happy heart is good medicine, and a cheerful mind works healing.” Those words are straight out of the Bible, which is full of wisdom that has stood the test of time over thousands of years and it’s more than just positive thinking. Against a backdrop in our news and social media about the problems […]
This piece is about how having a big enough ‘yes’ frees us up to take on challenges and voice our concerns at the same time. But first, some background: At the time of writing, we’re enjoying the last few weeks of summer, the kids are still off school, the Ashes against the old adversaries are […]
Slow down. I heard those words at 5am recently. It was in that quiet, inside space where sometimes words drop like whispers of wisdom and pull you up short before you have time to edit them. Some may say it was the voice of conscience, or self-talk; some may say it was the ‘still, small […]
Last year, at the end of a busy day where I took no breaks to recharge, I slumped onto the comfy leather sofa in our meeting room to rest for 10 minutes before I went home (sounds grand, the sofa was bought from the BHF second hand shop and our meeting room doubles as a […]
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