I've worked in digital marketing since 2009, and in 2022 I started my own TikTok creator agency. Building a business was relentless: long days, not much rest. And since moving to the UK almost twenty years ago, I'd been eating and living much the way everyone around me did.
Early last year my body started to push back. Mouth ulcers came almost every month. Every cold turned into a cough I couldn't shake, once for three months. I went back to my doctor again and again. At first nothing showed up on the tests; later I needed two rounds of antibiotics for a chest infection. But nobody could tell me why it kept happening.
Where Traditional Chinese Medicine came in
I took it to a Traditional Chinese Medicine physician, one of those I now work with, and it was the first time anyone looked past the symptom itself. I was asked whether I ran cold or hot, how I slept, what my appetite and digestion were like, even whether sweating left me feeling lighter or more tired. The changes that followed were ordinary ones, and the biggest were in what I ate, how I dressed, how I moved and how I slept. None of it was dramatic, and for once I actually kept to it.
From curiosity to the clinic
After that I couldn't stop. I spend a lot of my spare time studying Traditional Chinese Medicine online and reading the classics, and I go back to China for a few weeks at a time to shadow senior Traditional Chinese Medicine physicians, sitting in on their consultations: watching how they read a person, and learning the classical system (the Si Sheng Xin Yuan, Huang Yuanyu's lineage) that underpins everything we do.
The more I learned, the more I saw how many of my old habits had been wearing me down, and how many things that are completely normal here in the UK are ones Traditional Chinese Medicine would quietly question: the iced drinks, the cold lunches, the big dinner at the end of the day.
Why I share it
So I started making short videos about it: small, everyday things, explained in plain English, for anyone they might help.
I'm a TCM enthusiast and educator rather than a practitioner, so the reading itself is always done by the people I work with. What I've built is the bridge, so their depth can actually reach people here, in plain English, made for modern life.
"Real Traditional Chinese Medicine isn't mystical. It's a deeply practical way of reading the body, refined over more than two thousand years of written practice. It offers clear information that's beneficial for everyday life."
About YinYang Well
If you're not happy with how your body's been running, want to feel better in yourself, or are living with pain, YinYang Well puts you in front of people whose reading I trust, in one of two ways.
The TCM Wellness Report is for the everyday. A senior TCM physician licensed in China, at Baoputang in Ningbo, reads all the information and photographs you send and writes a detailed report back on how your body is running currently, and the everyday changes to make first.
The Observation Reading is with an independent practitioner in China, separate from that clinic. She reads your whole picture in depth. There is an option to see the practitioner in person. More about her