What brought me to Chinese medicine was the simple yet elegant concept of balance, that sweet spot between yin and yang.

That balance was what I had lacked in my younger years of commuting from Taipei to New York, Beijing and many cities in between as a journalist and documentary filmmaker. I enjoyed meeting people from all walks of life to help tell their stories. I trekked the Tibetan plateau with monks who were recognized as reincarnates of many lifetimes, hung out with the first all-female rockers from China and worked for dot-coms that are now dot-gones.  

That richness of experience took a physical toll. I suffered from constant headaches and a variety of digestive and gynecological ailments that ultimately stemmed from a terrible lifestyle. Then experiencing Chinese medicine first-hand as well as subsequent turn of events including meeting a few amputee children injured in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake prompted me to make a career change.