About The Experts
We’re a Community- In a world that demands you to be ‘on’ 24/7, we offer the opposite: a sanctuary.
We believe that true strength is about having a safe place to soften.
Mariette Schoeman
Mariette Schoeman is a seasoned Real Estate Principal who will be presenting an empowering guide on creating your 'Book of Life' legacy file and mastering the essentials of property ownership for women.
Susanna Potgieter
DCur in Nursing Management, 20 years hospital and community health service, 10 years lector at UNISA and the last 20 years in hospitality
Dr. Rina Steynberg
Doctorate in Leaderhip & Change * Registered Industrial Psychologist * Leadership coach & mentor for 20 years as management consultant * Currently lecturing in leadership
Benita Serfontein
* BAccounting & BEd * Ethnomedicine certied and Enneagram coach * Internationally recognised Health, Wellness and Biofeedback coach * International speaker
About Susanna Potgieter - main blogger
Thank you for taking to get to know me a bit better.
Caring has never just been my profession — it has been my calling.
From the time I was young, I was drawn to the quiet strength of helping others. As a child growing up on a farm, my mother would wake me early to walk with her in the stillness of the morning. Those walks taught me something I still carry today: healing often begins in silence, in movement, in simply allowing space.
I became a registered nurse because I knew, even as a teenager, that I wanted to stand beside people in their most vulnerable moments. Over the years, I have witnessed the first breath of newborn babies and sat at the bedside of those taking their last. I have worked in hospitals and clinics, lectured nurse managers, and supported people navigating both physical illness and emotional struggle.
Life has also been my teacher.
Through loss, change, rebuilding, and starting again, I have learned that strength is not about avoiding difficulty — it is about walking through it. There is never a way out. Only a way through.
Sanatio means “to heal” in Latin.
Sanatio Heal was born from this understanding. It is a space where softness and strength meet.
The Soft Place – where you can set down the weight you have been carrying and simply breathe.
The Strong Place – where you gain knowledge, tools, and resilience to move forward with confidence.
Here, you are not expected to have it all together.
You are invited to come as you are — and leave stronger than you arrived.
