About
Built From the Break
This is not a clean story.
This is about two women—a doctor and a journalist—who had to rebuild from the kind of breaking that changes everything.
Caroline runs Silk Cotton Wellness Lifestyle Centre in Tobago, transforming her dual role as a medical professional and a stroke survivor into a relentless force for healing. After navigating the final days of her husband's life and facing her own stroke, she didn't retreat. She launched breathwork and movement groups born purely from lived experience. She splits her time between Tobago and Grenada, still battling the daily reality of post-stroke life while guiding others through theirs. She is the nurturer who knows exactly how much it costs to rise.
Kerstin is the builder in Scotland's Kintyre. A Swedish journalist and survivor who became a mother at 40, was diagnosed with ADHD and autism at 50, and survived a stroke in 2016 before overcoming abuse and homelessness in Scotland. She got her support dog Bamse for her son, but they became inseparable for 10 years—"ler och långhalm." She lost Bamse in 2024. Her son nearly died that same year. Her timeline is brutal, but she is faithful to what she builds—standing straight in the line of fire, refusing to stop. She's a machine when she believes in something. And she believes 30 more years on this earth must be used to matter.
We met laughing in a Facebook group in 2025. We came together to build this vision—two sanctuaries, one ecosystem—because we share a fundamental belief: that the road through hell can lead straight to rebirth.
We're not untouched. We're passionate, stubborn, and absolutely unafraid to rise from the rubble.
