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A Season of Becoming 🌿

by Agnes Steenkamp | Oct 25, 2025 | Counselling

Over the past few years, I’ve learned that growth rarely happens all at once. It comes quietly, in moments that seem ordinary — a deeper breath before reacting, a softer word when you would’ve turned away, the courage to pause instead of push through. There were...

If your heart was a garden, as what sort of garden would you picture it?

by Agnes Steenkamp | Mar 15, 2019 | Counselling

Joe Black sings a song, ‘Ons is grond’ (We are soil), which made me think: what if one were to compare oneself — no, one’s heart — to a garden? What sort of garden would a person’s heart be? Would it be the orderly kind, like Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, with...

Reaching heart-health goals

by Agnes Steenkamp | Feb 2, 2019 | Counselling

Around every corner, we are bombarded with promises of freedom. Some claim that keeping an alkaline environment in the body holds the secret — and for a season, I followed that path and found some benefit. There was also a time when I committed to a certain diet and...