Home Tour: STERREKOPJE
- Words John Burns
- Photos Inge Prins
Manor from heaven: A visit to a healing farm in Franschhoek.
Fleur Huijskens (left) and Nicole Boekhoorn (right) with their son, Rumi.
The question of healing—and whether one needs to heal at all—shifts considerably when reframed from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What’s happened to me?” While big traumas lodge in the body and scar the psyche, most of us are also shaped by slower, more insidious wounds: the cumulative strain of being marginalized by society, the pressure to optimize oneself and be relentlessly productive, or simply the constant abrasion of the attention economy. In other words, each of us could probably justify a little rest and relaxation.
