Hello and welcome back to the Get Alman about the podcast and joined today by the lovely Katie

Grindle, Chinese medicine practitioner and founder of Hay-Yud Method and the author of Yang Sheng,

the art of Chinese self-healing. Katie has been practicing Chinese medicine for almost 20 years

after it helped her to recover from a life-changing car

accident that made her realise the importance of Yang Feng or self-care for good health.

On today's episode, Katie shares her experiences with Chinese medicine in helping her clients

with some of the most common health issues from stress, skincare, digestion and fertility.

I really learned so much from our chat with Katie

and I can't wait to hear what you think. Let's bring on the amazing Katie. Katie, welcome to the

podcast. Thank you so much, Mandolin. I'm super excited to speak to you. I would love to just start off by talking about

Chinese medicine and how you got into it and so interested in it. Well, it's an interesting

story because it came out of pain in two different versions. The first thing that happened was

when I was about 22, I was hoping to go to music college to

study opera singing, which is what I wanted to do, and then had this awful car accident.

And what happened to me then is what happens for a lot of people sort of went to Western

medicine, tried to sort out, nothing worked. Literally, it was like a car crash of my life,

like all my ambition went,

because I couldn't do what I wanted to do. I was in agony. And it took about six or seven years

of going around and around the houses before I was one morning walking up of all places

the Edgwa High Street in North London. And there was a TCM clinic, which was just there. And

my shoulder was hurting so much.

I was in so much pain. I went in and just thought, oh gosh, please do something. And it happened that

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