Sanctuary Gardens Rehabilitation and Wellness Centre-Zambia

28/11/2025

26/11/2025

🌿 The Healing Power of Gardening 🌿

At Sanctuary Gardens, we believe recovery is not just about breaking old patterns — it’s about learning to grow again. One of the most transformative parts of our programme is gardening and vocational skill training, where clients reconnect with the earth, learn new skills, and experience healing through meaningful work.

🌱 Why Gardening?
Working with your hands isn’t just productive — it’s therapeutic. Gardening has powerful benefits for the body, mind, and spirit:

✨ Physical Health

-Gentle exercise that strengthens the body

-Fresh air and sunlight to boost immunity and energy

-Improved sleep and stress reduction through natural rhythms

✨ Mental Wellbeing

-Reduces anxiety, depression, and racing thoughts

-Builds focus, patience, and emotional regulation

-Gives a sense of purpose, achievement, and daily structure

✨ Spiritual Growth

-Teaches connection, gratitude, and patience.

-Helps clients slow down, reflect, and find peace

-Symbolises personal growth — seeds becoming something strong.

🍅 Growing Our Own Food
As part of our vocational training, clients learn:

-How to plant, nurture, and harvest vegetables

-Sustainable gardening techniques

-Responsibility and teamwork

-Healthy eating from food they’ve grown themselves

The garden becomes a living reminder that healing takes time, care, and consistency — but it always leads to new life.

💚 At Sanctuary Gardens, we don’t just rebuild lives…
We plant seeds, nurture potential, and watch our clients grow.

25/11/2025

It's a process.....

14/11/2025

Addiction is not a simple failure of willpower, but a complex survival strategy rooted in unprocessed trauma, often from childhood.

Addiction is an outdated, yet brilliant, adaptation to early trauma and pain. The brain uses substances or behaviors as a way to numb emotional distress and create a false sense of safety, making recovery about much more than just "stopping."

14/11/2025

Speech by Guest of Honour Dr Sophia Namukonda Ntinga, Health Ministries Director for Lusaka Conference, during the Thanks Giving and Dedication Service at Sanctuary Gardens on 8/11/2025.

14/11/2025

12/11/2025

💔 From Bitterness to Breakthrough

I’ve learned that healing doesn’t start with pretending the pain isn’t real—it begins when we face it with honesty and grace. I’ve had to let go of some heavy things, not by ignoring them, but by allowing God to shift my heart from retaliation to restoration. 🌿

When I chose gratitude over bitterness, I found peace waiting for me on the other side.

09/11/2025

Sanctuary Gardens Catering team ready to feed our guests during yesterday's Dedication and Thanks giving day.