Meet Wenjing
I used to think I was doing everything right.
I was born in China and moved abroad when I was twenty-five. Growing up, TCM was simply woven into ordinary life. It was something my grandmother knew, something in the kitchen and the medicine cabinet, always present but never examined. You do not study the water you swim in.
I went to Australia for my PhD in Computer Science, then built a career as an aviation lecturer in the Netherlands. My way of understanding things has always been through systems: how the parts connect, what pattern they form, and why something works the way it does, not just that it does.
Which is probably why, when I developed hay fever after years in the Netherlands, the standard answer left me cold. Avoid allergens. Take pills when you can’t. That told me what to do with the symptom. It said nothing about what had shifted in my body. And something clearly had.
It wasn’t that I was eating badly or living carelessly. The diet and lifestyle that had worked in sunny Australia were simply the wrong message for a cold, damp Dutch climate. I had been feeding summer while my body was asking for winter.
That experience changed the question I was asking. Instead of looking for the correct healthy habit, I began asking: correct for whom, in which body, in which season, and in which climate?
Then everything shifted.
That question pulled me into years of TCM study. What I found was a sophisticated, coherent framework that had been mapping human health for millennia. It gave me language for things I had noticed but couldn’t name: why certain foods left me colder, why my energy followed the seasons, why pushing harder sometimes made things worse. I adjusted gradually, one thing at a time, and felt the difference slowly, then unmistakably. The hay fever eased. The energy returned. The foggy digestion settled.
I trained in TCM and acupuncture because I needed to understand what was happening beneath the symptoms. And once I did, I needed to share. Tong Living grew from that process: a practical, honest attempt to make Chinese medicine clear, grounded, and genuinely useful for modern life.
I am not here to tell you what to do. I am here to help you learn to listen to your own body, recognise your own pattern, and make small, well-aimed adjustments that fit your actual life.
Start with the book, or explore a one-on-one session if you’d like personal guidance for understanding your body pattern and making adjustments that fit your life right now.
