Caroline Kremer - on healing injuries, unexpected circumstances, and career re-invention

03/19/22 • 50 min

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How often do you think about your own breathing? I bet you are right now. How fast do you breathe? How deeply?

Most of the time it’s completely unconscious. We just do it, and we rarely consider how we breathe unless we’re exercising and out of breath, or ill and out of breath, as many of us have been during the pandemic.It’s only when our capacity to breathe is reduced that we ever consider - without stating the absolute obvious - how important it is

My guest today helps people to breathe better. She helps people to feel better. She reduces their pain and helps them with many other conditions besides. Her name is Caroline Kremer, and she’s the owner of Pulborough Natural Health, a clinic in a beautiful part of England, West Sussex. Caroline is a Bowen therapist, and a practitioner of Evans Alignment and her own Kremer Method to stimulate the vagus nerve, which is known as the “rest, digest and repair nerve”.

Her business and interest in health and wellbeing is one of the reasons that Caroline is on the podcast this week. The other is her remarkable capacity for career reinvention. From being kicked out of school to becoming a chef and working in restaurants, to running a ski company with her husband before being widowed at 34 with 3 small children, Caroline has an incredible sense of resourcefulness and a can-do attitude that I really admire. She is full of stories and in this episode we barely had time to scratch the surface of the people she’s met in life and how colourful her career has been.

We recorded this episode deep in the Covid lockdown and the sound isn’t the best on Caroline’s line at the beginning, but bear with it - she’s worth it.

Useful links

Caroline's website at Pulborough Natural Health: https://www.pulboroughnaturalhealth.co.uk

Caroline's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-kremer-69b644a/

Follow Caroline on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kremermethod/

Follow Caroline on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarolineKremer

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Provided by ZakharValaha, AleXZavesa, Coma-Media SergeQuadrado JuliusH, Lesfm and lemonmusicstudio from Pixabay

How often do you think about your own breathing? I bet you are right now. How fast do you breathe? How deeply?

We recorded this episode deep in the Covid lockdown and the sound isn’t the best on Caroline’s line at the beginning, but bear with it - she’s worth it.

Useful links

Caroline's website at Pulborough Natural Health: https://www.pulboroughnaturalhealth.co.uk

Caroline's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-kremer-69b644a/

Follow Caroline on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kremermethod/

Follow Caroline on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarolineKremer

Music

Provided by ZakharValaha, AleXZavesa, Coma-Media SergeQuadrado JuliusH, Lesfm and lemonmusicstudio from Pixabay

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Dot Zacharias - on sleep deprivation, life at a tech startup and the power of yoga Nidra

This week, we’re talking, amongst other things, about sleep. My guest today is Dot Zacharias, COO and co-founder of Nourish, a wellbeing app designed for busy mums to find a little calm in their lives, which aims to protect maternal mental health and provide support. But that description doesn’tquite cover Dot’s career. After starting her working life in Russia, she’s worked as a management consultant, qualified as a sleep coach, been a part of multiple start ups and successfully exited her own previous company, Sleepability. She describes herself as rebellious and adventurous, which basically means she’s a woman after my own heart.

We recorded this episode a little while ago, and given the current events in Ukraine, I debated whether I ought to release this episode this week with its discussion about Russia and Dot's work there. The actions of the Russian government and the unspeakable horror they are unleashing on the citizens of the Ukraine is appalling, and cannot be condoned, but our conversation was on the world of work, and Dot’s experiences with the people of Russia that she met, most of which was wonderfully positive as you'll hear. On balance, I felt the insights she offered warranted leaving this section of the interview in, and I hope you agree.

You can donate to the Red Cross appeal for Ukraine here: https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal

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Useful links

Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed - https://www.waterstones.com/book/rebel-ideas/matthew-syed/matthew-syed-consulting-ltd/9781529348408

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker - https://www.waterstones.com/book/why-we-sleep/matthew-walker/9780141983769

Kim Cattrall's highly personal monologue on insomnia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0783lq9

FemTechLab's Accelerator Programme - https://femtechlab.com

Dot's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dotzacharias/?originalSubdomain=fr

Follow Dot on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rest_fully/

Follow Nourish App on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenourishapp/

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Provided by ZakharValaha, AleXZavesa, Coma-Media SergeQuadrado JuliusH, Lesfm and lemonmusicstudio

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Useful links

Justine's website: https://aurorafacets.com

Justine's LinkedIn profile: https://www.instagram.com/justinenagaur/

Follow Justine on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinenagaur/

Follow Justine on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aurorafacets

Music

Provided by ZakharValaha, AleXZavesa, Coma-Media SergeQuadrado JuliusH, Lesfm and lemonmusicstudio from Pixabay