Lily Bloom is not just a book; it is a lifestyle.
My husband and I currently live in South Africa after residing in Europe for a few years. We have three adult children and a couple of dachshunds. The Lily Bloom is not just a book, it is a lifestyle built around gratitude, resilience, and faith.
Meet the author
Leilani Luyt Potgieter is a writer, encourager, and founder of Lily Bloom Lifestyle - a gentle, faith-filled lifestyle brand created to help women heal, grow, rest, begin again, and bloom through every season of life.
She is the author of Die Lelieblom en moed vir die stap op ons lewenspad, a deeply personal book about courage, faith, trauma, survival, and grace. Through her writing, Leilani shares honestly from her own life journey - through seasons of loss, uncertainty, migration, medical trauma, emotional healing, and the quiet strength that comes when we learn to trust God one step, and one day, at a time.
Her message is simple, yet deeply hopeful:
Even after winter, drought, heartbreak, pruning, and pain, a woman can bloom again.
Through the Bloom, Darling, Bloom! series, Leilani carries this heart-message further - in a way that is practical, poetic, and deeply rooted in faith. Her books invite women to recognise the season they are in, tend their inner garden with grace, grow in faith, and rediscover hope, beauty, courage, and purpose through God's loving care.
Leilani writes for women who are healing.
For women who are beginning again.
For women who carry hidden stories.
For women who long for a softer, deeper, and more meaningful way of living.
Her words weave together personal testimony, Christian encouragement, emotional wisdom, creativity, and the beauty of everyday rituals.
Leilani and her husband currently live in South Africa after spending several years in Europe. They have three adult children and a few dachshunds who fill their home and hearts with joy. They love travelling, discovering beautiful places, and noticing the stories behind people and places.
She has a heart for people and an eye for beauty. Leilani loves nature, poetry, writing, painting, music, baking, brewing, and filling ordinary moments with meaning. She loves making things beautiful - a home, a table, a garden, a sentence, a page, an ordinary day.
But more than that, she loves noticing the inner beauty in people, honouring it, and reminding them of it when they have forgotten. Over time, she has become more at home with herself, with silence, and with the Gardener's pace.
Through her books and Lily Bloom Lifestyle, Leilani hopes to help women live more gently, deeply, and purposefully - with faith, emotional wisdom, simple rituals, and the comfort that God lovingly tends us through every season. In her world, roses bloom, the kettle sings, dachshunds bring joy, and the ordinary becomes holy again.
At the heart of everything she creates is one simple invitation:
Bloom, darling, bloom - right here where you are, and right there where God is lovingly tending you.
God is still tending you.
Your season has meaning.
And darling, you can bloom again.
Through personal stories and reflection, the book helps readers navigate challenges and rediscover purpose.
We believe spiritual well-being, healthy routines, and natural products work together for a life in full bloom.