Coram Deo - Constantiakruin Campus

20/07/2025

Where Your Story Lives in Your Body
Your body is a living archive.

Long after the mind forgets, the body remembers. The tight shoulders. The racing heart. The weight in your chest. These are not just sensations—they’re the echoes of unspoken stories.

🧠 In narrative therapy, we ask: Where does this story live in your body? Because healing isn’t just mental—it’s embodied.

You don’t need to explain it all. You just need to listen.

🧘 “The body keeps the score.” – Bessel van der Kolk

🌿 Reflection: Pause. Breathe. Where do you feel tension today? What might that part of your body be trying to tell you? Can you place your hand there and offer it a word of kindness?

Credits: Radical Impact

WEST RAND CORAM DEO CAMPUS CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR PASTORAL NARRATIVE COUSELLING COURSE
Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

19/07/2025

Did you know not all healing is visible?

You don’t always see progress from the outside.
A moment of choosing peace, walking away, asking for help—that’s huge.
Healing is often quiet, invisible, internal.

🌱 You don’t need to prove you’re healing. You’re allowed to feel it silently.

Credits:

West Rand Coram Deo Campus offers accredited courses in pastoral narrative therapy.
Contact: coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

18/07/2025

For training in pastoral narrative therapy at our WEST RAND CORAM DEO CAMPUS:
for more information om our courses and counselling please email Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

17/07/2025

The Power of Supporting Characters

Your life is not a solo act.

Behind every story of survival, there’s someone whose presence mattered. Maybe they didn’t fix anything. Maybe they didn’t say the right words. Maybe they just stayed.

👥 In narrative practice, we honour the “supporting characters”—the people whose quiet presence altered our course. The friend who called. The stranger who smiled. The teacher who saw potential in us when we couldn’t see it ourselves.

Your story is stitched with grace through human connection.

🤝 “Sometimes the people who hold us up never know how much they did.” – Morgan Harper Nichols

💬 Invitation: Who has been a supporting character in your story? Write their name on your heart and say thank you.

And ask yourself: Whose story are you showing up in today?

Do you want to join us and study Narrative Therapy? We have a campus on the West Rand. Send an email to Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

16/07/2025

Plot Twists Are Sacred

We often fear the unexpected—loss, change, detours. But life isn’t meant to follow a straight line. In narrative therapy, we honour the plot twist—the moment the story breaks open.

Because that’s where the real story begins.

That betrayal?
That job loss?
That diagnosis?
It wasn’t the end. It was the rupture that made room for something new to be born.

📖 The best stories don’t unfold as planned. They evolve, they twist, they ask the protagonist (you!) to rise again in a different form.

You were never meant to be a character stuck on one page.

🔁 “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Anonymous

🌱 Reflective invitation: What is one plot twist in your life you once resisted—but now recognize as sacred?

For information about our pastoral narrative therapy course in The West Rand of Johannesburg send an Email to: Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

15/07/2025

Did you know identity is a verb, not a noun?

You’re not one thing forever.

Identity shifts, evolves, contradicts itself.

Narrative therapy sees identity as something you do—not something you are.

🌀 You don’t need to find yourself—you’re allowed to create yourself.
Leonie Stassen Prinsloo with Radical Impact

For information on our university accredited certification counselling courses in pastoral narrative therapy please send an Email to : coramdeo@ constantiakruin.co.za

13/07/2025

Re‑Authoring the Re-authoring of Self

Have you ever stopped to ask: Whose words are these that live in me?

So many of us walk through life carrying stories that were never ours to begin with—labels from childhood, assumptions from others, expectations that don’t fit our soul. We begin to live from scripts written by fear, culture, or trauma.

But what if today, you took the pen back?

📝 Imagine your life is a book. Flip to today’s page. If you were to re-author this chapter in your own words—what would the title be? What values would guide this scene? What language would you remove that no longer serves your truth?

You are not the story others told about you.
You are the narrator, the re-writer, the voice reclaiming the pen.

🖋️ “You are not the story that happened to you. You are the story you choose to tell about it.” – Brené Brown

🌱 Reflective invitation: What is one outdated story you’re ready to rewrite this week?
Leonie Stassen Prinsloo from Radical Impact

For inquiries about our counselling and training program in the West Rand please send an Email to:

Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

11/07/2025

RADICAL IMPACT CHALLENGES US:

“The Problem Doesn’t Deserve Center Stage”

We often spend so much energy describing the problem:
“I’m anxious.”
“I’m burnt out.”
“I always mess up.”

But in doing so, we accidentally put the problem in the spotlight.

Narrative therapy invites us to shift the lens — to spend more time discovering:

What makes me come alive?
What values show up when I feel crushed?
What traces of resistance can I find in the chaos?

🌱 Your life is not defined by the issue, but by how you respond to it.

Reflection Prompt: If the problem was no longer the main character in your story, who or what would be?

11/07/2025

Curiosity is not just a tool — it’s a posture.

Through thoughtful questions and deep listening, we invite the hidden wisdom within each client to rise.

🧭 Ready to become a story-carrier, hope-holder, and soul-listener?

Begin your Narrative Therapy journey today with Coram Deo.

WEST RAND CAMPUS: Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za

📍 Website: www.coramdeo.co.za
📧 E-mail: info@coramdeo.co.za
📲 WhatsApp: 066 047 0950 (Thuli)
📞 Tel: 012 998 9083 / 012 998 8323
🏠 Adres: 143 Leoniestraat, Doornkloof

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

10/07/2025

Unfollow the Role You Didn’t Choose

Some roles are inherited, not chosen. The peacemaker. The strong one. The lost cause. The overachiever. The invisible child.

Narrative therapy helps us notice the roles we were cast in — and rewrite the script.

What happens when you stop auditioning for a story that was never yours to begin with?

This work is about authorship. Saying:
“No more pretending. I choose presence over performance.”

Reflection Question: What role have you played out of survival, and what role do you want to claim now?

“You are allowed to leave the stage mid-scene if the script no longer fits your soul.”
Leonie Prinsloo

09/07/2025

Curiosity is not just a tool — it’s a posture.

Through thoughtful questions and deep listening, we invite the hidden wisdom within each client to rise.

🧭 Ready to become a story-carrier, hope-holder, and soul-listener?

Begin your Narrative Therapy journey today with Coram Deo.

West Rand Campus
📧 for training, courses and counselling
📧E-mail : Coramdeo@constantiakruin.co.za
Helene De Villiers
Dr Jo Viljoen

📍 Website: www.coramdeo.co.za
📧 E-mail: info@coramdeo.co.za
📲 WhatsApp: 066 047 0950 (Thuli)
📞 Tel: 012 998 9083 / 012 998 8323
🏠 Adres: 143 Leoniestraat, Doornkloof

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

08/07/2025

WISE WORDS FROM A CORAM DEO STUDENT IN HER THIRD YEAR OF STUDY:
Leonie Stassen Prinsloo @ RADICAL.IMPACT:

What if Your Story Isn't Broken, But Censored?

Sometimes we think we need to be “fixed,” when in truth, parts of our story have just been silenced.

Society often gives us scripts:

"Be the strong one."
"Get over it already."
"Don’t make it about you."

But narrative therapy invites us to unsilence what’s been locked away. To become editors of our lives — not deleting the hard parts, but giving voice to the moments that never made it into the “main storyline.”

💭 Maybe your story isn’t broken. Maybe it’s waiting for a page that’s been skipped.

Reflection Question:
What part of your story has never had permission to be told?

“The stories we silence the most are often the ones that would heal us the deepest.”