To be radically here speaks to the simple, and often tremendously difficult, act of staying present with what's real. 

To stay with the body when the mind wants to escape from pain, boredom, and uncertainty into distraction and oblivion. To stay afloat in tidal waves of grief. To hold sorrow without rushing to solve it, and to move irritation and rage without causing harm.

To stay close to yourself and your sensitive nature in a culture built on urgency, performance, and disconnection. To slow down enough to notice joy, and allow it to be savoured, cultivated.

Holding fast to pause in these times takes grit, and skill. Our attention, our connection, our hope needs protection.

We need each other.

To stay present is a radical act. 

Radically Here is the evolving home of my counselling practice and future creative offerings, centered around the practices of staying: trauma-informed care, nervous system work, embodiment, creativity, ritual, community and relational healing. 

This space is less interested in fixing people or making flashy declarations of healing, than in exploring the conditions and practices that help us return to ourselves and the parts we've had to abandon, gently, honestly, and without performance. Radically Here is a way of being in relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us - a practice and a prayer at once.

May it serve as a companion on this delicate, beautiful, vital journey.

And like most meaningful things, it begins imperfectly.