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Paweł Rudziński is a Paramedic Practitioner, educator, and co-founder of Rebalance Wellbeing Hub CIC, based in Oxfordshire. His work centres on prevention, health literacy, and helping people rebuild their wellbeing in practical, measurable ways. But the foundations of that mission were not formed in a classroom or a clinic — they were forged through personal crisis.

In December 2016, Paweł was diagnosed with cancer. At the time, he was working in frontline ambulance services, living what many would consider a normal high-pressure shift-worker's life. He smoked heavily. His sleep was disrupted, his diet unstructured, his stress constant. Like many healthcare professionals, he prioritised others while neglecting himself. Serious illness felt distant — something that happened to patients, not to him.

Cancer dismantled that illusion.

Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed. The physical battle was intense, but the psychological shift was more profound. Sitting on the other side of the hospital bed changed everything. For the first time, he confronted his own vulnerability and recognised that health is not protected by profession, knowledge, or luck. It is shaped by daily behaviour.

After achieving full medical clearance, Paweł made a decision: recovery would not mean returning to the same life. It would mean redesigning it.

He immersed himself in lifestyle medicine, metabolic health, circadian biology, stress physiology and performance science — reading across peer-reviewed research and integrative health education, testing approaches to nutrition, movement and recovery with the same rigour he applied clinically. What began as personal survival evolved into disciplined self-experimentation and structured transformation.

Today, in his early forties, Paweł is stronger and more resilient than at any previous point in his life. The difference is not motivational — it is strategic. He understands the mechanisms behind energy, sleep, inflammation, stress response and recovery. When imbalance appears, he has tools to address it deliberately rather than reactively.

Fatherhood sharpened his perspective. His driving question became long-term: when his children are adults, will he be strong enough to support them — or will he have become dependent because he failed to act when he still had the chance? That question continues to shape both his personal discipline and his professional direction.

This is not the first time Paweł has built something from the ground up. Before moving to the UK, he co-founded DRW Group in Poland — a bespoke training company that delivered over a thousand hours of first aid and emergency education in partnership with the American Heart Association, working with some of Poland's largest employers. That entrepreneurial instinct, combined with a career that progressed from frontline paramedic through clinical mentorship, education management at South Central Ambulance Service, and an Associate Lecturer role at Oxford Brookes University, shapes how he approaches Rebalance: systemically, not reactively.

Through Rebalance Wellbeing Hub CIC, Paweł works to translate complex health science into practical, accessible action. He leads the development of HolistIQ™ — a comprehensive digital wellbeing assessment tool that draws on multiple validated health questionnaires to identify where physiological and lifestyle burden is highest, and direct support accordingly. Rebalance's 5 Pillars of Health workshops, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, take that same evidence-informed approach into the community. He does not promote extremes or ideology. He focuses on sustainable behaviour change, structured assessment, and prevention as a long-term investment.

His message is direct but hopeful: serious illness is not always preventable, but neglect often is. Health is not guaranteed — it is built.

His work sits at the intersection of clinical practice and lived experience. He understands emergency medicine. He understands vulnerability. And he understands what it takes to rebuild.