Hi, everyone. Welcome to Living Well With Janet, where we explored different health and

wellness topics to enrich our ever-evolving personal practices. I'm your host, Janet.

Those of you who have listened to some of our earlier episodes at ABG know that I have switched

careers many, many times. I first started out at one of the big fours working in global

transfer pricing. Then I worked in social enterprise before switching to strategy and advertising

and finally landing in UX design before changing, once again, to go in full-time in ABG.

But between my stint in advertising and my time in UX design, I actually spent a bit of time

in a different sector that I don't talk that much about. I spent about half a year in Chinese medicine

school. Now, I know that one seems way out from left field compared to the other industries

that I switched between, and before I get into how and why I did that, what the experience was

like and what I learned, I want to share with you a quote to think about. This quote comes from

the Yellow Embrors Classic of Internal Medicine, which is a pretty well-referenced text in traditional

Chinese medicine. To fight a disease after it has occurred is like trying to dig a well when one

is thirsty, or forging a weapon once a war has already begun. I'm curious to hear what you think

of that quote, how you interpret it. If you have thoughts, please leave them in the comments of

our Instagram post. So how did my interest in Chinese medicine even develop? Well, I've shared

in earlier episodes that kind of in parallel with all of my career transitions, I started taking a

deeper interest in my own physical health and well-being through tools like food and exercise,

which meant that I also started reading a lot and researching nutrition and other practices to

maintain health and prevent disease. During these years, I also observed my mom become very proactive

in managing her own health, as she transitioned from her 50s into her 60s and health became really

something that was a focus to preserve. And as someone who was raised in Taiwan by parents who

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