Jessica DePete, L.Ac. at Free Flow Acupuncture

12/04/2025

I'm posting this as much as a reminder for myself as for all of you. And if you feel like life is anything but "slower paced" right now, let's try to plan for a little slow-down after the busy holiday season 💕

12/03/2025

Walking for the sake of getting some movement, fresh air and quiet time rather than checking off the box of walking a certain number of steps? No better time to try it than on a crisp winter's day!

Philosophy says you have to.

11/19/2025

I have a noon appointment open for current clients tomorrow (11/20) - message or text me if you want to come in!

11/19/2025

Many areas of chronic pain are related to our sleep position, and no one can feel their best when they've been lying twisted up for 8 hours! Get some extra pillows and start propping!

Whether you're a back, side or stomach sleeper, medical professionals explain how to position your body to guard against neck cricks, shoulder aches and other body pain and soreness.

11/17/2025

One more very compelling reason to eat real food!

The study’s findings track with recent research on the alarming rise of the cancer in younger adults.

11/17/2025

My quest to recover my love of winter continues - who knew there was such a thing as frost flowers?? Has anyone here actually seen one in real life??

The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers.

11/12/2025

We still have 7 kids whose lists haven't been claimed, please consider helping us out this holiday season!

It is time for our annual gift drive for Monroe County Children and Youth! Here are your gifting options: - Fill out a child's entire wishlist! Ours may be the only gifts these kiddos receive, so if you choose this option please plan to spend something in the range of $100-$150 to check off most/all...

11/10/2025

This excerpt from Ingrid Fettel Lee's fantastic https://schoolofjoy.co/ newsletter really struck me. Next time I feel like I'm in a rough patch, I'm going to try to take a step back and see if I'm really just having a rough couple of days (mostly likely the case) and try to double down on some feelgood remedies.

What do you think?

11/06/2025

It is on! Our Children and Youth Gift Drive has begun, please feel free to contribute in any way that works for you, more specific instructions are on the sign-up page! 🥰

It is time for our annual gift drive for Monroe County Children and Youth! Here are your gifting options: - Fill out a child's entire wishlist! Ours may be the only gifts these kiddos receive, so if you choose this option please plan to spend something in the range of $100-$150 to check off most/all...

11/05/2025

First available appointment is the last week in January. Message me to book or to get on my cancelation list between now and then!

Thank you Mission Bodywork, Crystal Kelly, LMT for the visual aid 🤣

11/03/2025

Every. Single. Year.

11/02/2025

I'm going to get a lot of clients in this week who are feeling off-kilter because of the season shift and time change. This was the most poetic reflection on this 'in between time" that I've come across, I hope you enjoy it as you take an extra hour of downtime today....

Quality time, By Melissa Kirsch

The hour between dog and wolf, or “l’heure entre chien et loup,” if you prefer, is, I think you’ll agree, the dreamiest way to refer to twilight. (I will entertain arguments for “the gloaming” and “the violet hour,” but I don’t suspect litigants will get very far.) It’s that time just after sunset when the atmosphere is still partly illuminated by the sun, when the light is ambiguous and the sky can’t choose between blue and black. Night hasn’t yet fully fallen and we are in the borderland between day and dark. One might be forgiven, in this threshold moment, for mistaking a dog for a wolf, for mistaking safety for danger, for feeling slightly off.

Daylight saving time ends tomorrow. That first Sunday in November is a full day suspended between dog and wolf. We’re still grasping at the corn-silk tendrils of summer just as winter gets more insistent. An undertide of confusion persists: Evening car accidents increase, circadian rhythms reset, the moon’s out before dinner. That space in between is strange and destabilizing until we get used to it.

Each year I assume there’s a wolf hiding in the earlier sunsets, that there’s a certain sorrow implicit when daylight decreases. The dog days are literally and metaphorically over. In the northeast U.S., spring and summer are seasons you can pet. Fall and winter have fangs.

Not everyone feels this. I always consult my friend Leigh at this time of year to try to catch some of her glee. “License to hunker!” she nearly bellowed at me when I reminded her we change the clocks tomorrow. “Sorry, it’s 4:30, I can’t do anything more today. Time to have a drink and watch your shows!” I love her delirium, and I want to borrow some of it to wear like a shawl until spring.

The ancient Greeks experienced time in two ways. Chronos was the clock time that governs our lives, bedtime and estimated departure time, the hour gained or lost. Kairos referred to a more figurative measure of time — the right time, the moment of opportunity, the sacred window for action. In order to recognize kairos, we have to be aware, awake, present. Madeleine L’Engle wrote: “The child at play, the painter at his easel, Serkin playing the Appassionata are in kairos. The saint in prayer, friends around the dinner table, the mother reaching out her arms for her newborn baby are in kairos.”

When I think about the mystical possibilities of kairos, it seems mundane, boring, uncreative to be blue about a lost chronological hour. In any season, there is kairos. These moments of possibility, of serendipity, arrive in all seasons, but we have to be awake to seize them. The stillness of the colder, darker months — that license to hunker — is a time to slow down and observe. What windows of luck and chance and coincidence emerge when we’re a little quieter, a little more observant? I’ll be observing the sun setting an hour earlier tomorrow, wondering about kairos, those moments of opportunity in the offing that the clock and the calendar can’t touch.