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   Tue:  4:00 -  8:00
     Wed:  9:00 - 1:00
   Thur:  4:00 -  8:00
       Fri:     9:00 - 1:00
      Sat:   9:00 -  1:00
          Sun: closed

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So...You Want to be an Acupuncturist?

 by Jessica Feltz on 11/24/11

Please read through this page first.

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Fall 2011: FREE Gift Certificates, Unemployment Support, Holiday Hours, Fridays, & More

 by Jessica Feltz on 11/22/11

Giving Thanks

The Turning Point opened its doors four years ago, in November of 2007.  Since then, TTP has introduced community acupuncture to 2500 people, providing over 15,000 acu-naps with half-a-million needles.  Our youngest patient thus far was less than 100 days old, and our oldest was 100 years.  We delight in bringing friends and family together to share in the peace and healing that acupuncture provides.  One needle, one person, one family, one community at a time, we work together to ease the suffering in and around us.

When I say "we," I am referring to you--the patients, supporters, friends of Frederick's only community acupuncture clinic.  This clinic is nourished by people like Charley Poteat, who built us an outdoor bench...Jonathan Colburn, who created our sidewalk sign (which was so covetable that someone stole it ~ have you seen it around town?)...Goodloe Byron, who created our funky new Acupunkture image...Ann Culey who is sewing eye pillows for patients...artists like Lisa Tarket Reed who share their gifts on our walls (and Lisa will also donate 10% of all artwork sales to The Turning Point)...media specialists like Jackie Cutler and Alex Kotei who created promo materials...those who market our clinic in their workplaces and Facebook pages...who wash blankets, hang fliers, and show-up regularly to sit in the clinic's chairs week after week after week.  Thank you.

With the awareness that community acupuncture clinics like The Turning Point are really a product of the time, energy, and money that community supporters (patients) invest, our national organization has restructured to become a multi-stakeholder cooperative: POCA, The People's Organization of Community Acupuncture.  The Turning Point and Jessica Feltz both joined POCA this fall.  In early 2012, POCA will begin accepting memberships from patient and community supporters, too.  Member perks include FREE treatment cards to share with your loved ones near and far, FREE acupuncture for you the week of your birthday, no new patient paperwork fees when you visit any POCA clinic worldwide, and more!  Stay tuned for more details...

Holiday Hours

We look forward to seeing some of our college friends back in the recliners over Thanksgiving and Winter Break! 

  • We will be CLOSED Thursday, November 24th for Thanksgiving. 
  • We will be OPEN Saturday, November 26th! 
  • The clinic will be OPEN regular hours for the ENTIRE month of December. 

We know that your stress doesn't go away with the holidays...in fact, it usually increases.  We're here to support you when you most need iit.  Read about one community acupuncture clinic that remains open 365 days per year...  

Adding Fridays in January

Jessica will respond to demand and add an acupuncture shift on Fridays from 9 - 1, beginning January 6th.  Interested in volunteering at the front desk for some of our shifts in the New Year?  Let Jessica know.

FREE Holiday Gift Certificates!!!

Want to share Community Acupuncture with a friend or loved one this holiday season?  Download and print this New Patient Gift Certificate.  It makes a great stocking stuffer, "Secret Santa," gift exchange, or Thank-You for teachers, mail carriers, babysitters, bus drivers, groomers, house cleaners, secretaries, handymen, etc.  Valid only for new patients.  Expires January 31, 2012.

Unemployed?  We want to help.

Now through December 31st, all unemployed persons can receive acupuncture for $10 per treatment at The Turning Point.  Please schedule your visit by calling 240-405-7878 or using our online system. 

Documentary

We will screen Brian Lindstrom's documentary, "Community Acupuncture: The Calmest Revolution Ever Staged" (co-produced by Jessica Feltz!) at the end of January.  "This is the story of how a small group of loud-mouthed, over-educated, under-employed activists and a massive group of ordinary people with average incomes revolutionized healthcare systems by using large empty rooms, old recliner chairs, and two-cent needles."  Ticket sales will be $10 each, and stubs will be redeemable for a FREE acupuncture treatment in the clinic.  More info soon on our website and Facebook group.

Want to help promote the doc with flier creation, press release writing, submitting PSA's, selling tickets or merchandise?  Interested in participating on a patient panel at the screening about how Community Acupuncture has affected you?  Are there other ways you'd like to support this event?  Get in touch with Jessica, please.

AcuPUNKture Gear

Our first run of shirts sold-out in less than a week!! Thank you for your patience while we geared-up for the demand.  New schwag (shirts, tote bags, mugs, etc) will be available in the clinic in early December.  Can't wait?  Visit our new Zazzle store.

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May Day 2011

 by Jessica Feltz on 04/27/11

Contact: Jessica Feltz, 240-405-7878

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

with PHOTO OPPORTUNITY on Sunday, May 1st from 9am – 2 pm

 

KICK YOUR FEET UP AND CELEBRATE!

 

Frederick, MD: Shake away your rainy day blues at The Turning Point (TTP) with the Community Acupuncture Network’s 9th Annual May Day Celebration.   Community-building, fun, and affordable health services are the themes that will kick-off our party honoring International Workers Day on Sunday, May 1st from 9am – 2pm.  Free Acupuncture, DJ Entertainment by Mix of Sound (www.mixofsound.com), plus food from local businesses will be on hand for an eclectic party mix. 

 

Nearly 100 community acupuncture clinics worldwide will offer FREE acupuncture to thousands of patients on Sunday May 1st.  Says licensed acupuncturist Jessica Feltz, owner of TTP and President of the Community Acupuncture Network (CAN): “The May Day celebration is CAN’s way of commemorating the workers in each of our communities: the garbage collectors, teachers, postal workers, librarians, bus drivers, bakers, pet sitters, and more.  We’re trying to make acupuncture a commonplace thing that people of ordinary incomes can benefit from.”  

 

With hundreds of clinics comprising this international grassroots movement, Community Acupuncture centers like TTP feature affordable sliding scales from $15 - $35, no income verifications, and cozy recliner-filled treatment spaces.  Over 11,000 people have visited Frederick’s TTP since opening in November of 2007.  An estimated half-a-million people receive care in Community Acupuncture clinics annually.

 

Be there: FREE Acupuncture on Sunday, May 1, 2011, 9am – 2pm at 243 W. Patrick Street in Frederick, MD 21701.  For more information call us at 240-405-7878 or visit www.TheTurningPointAcupuncture.com

 

The Turning Point: A Community Acupuncture Center

 

243 W. Patrick Street, Frederick, MD 21701

 

www.TheTurningPointAcupuncture.com

 

240-405-7878

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We Are Hiring!

 by Jessica Feltz on 05/15/10

We are seeking one office helper.  Part time (~20 hours).  Evening and weekend availability required.  Skills desired: computer (Microsoft Office, social networking sites), telephone, organizational, interpersonal, sales/marketing, proactive and independent worker.  Position will include some cleaning tasks and occassional lifting.  Fluency in Spanish and/or ASL skills a significant bonus.  Passion for community acupuncture strongly preferred! 
 
Interested?  Please submit cover letter and resume to info@TheTurningPointAcupuncture.com or mail to The Turning Point, 243 W. Patrick Street, Frederick, MD 21701.

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FREE Community Acupuncture on MAY DAY!!!

 by Jessica Feltz on 04/12/10

Acupuncture is FREE for EVERYONE from 8 am - 1 pm on Saturday, May 1st at The Turning Point in Frederick!!!

The Community Acupuncture Network is celebrating our 8th Annual May Day by offering FREE Acupuncture to our communities.

  • For a list of almost 70 participating clinics in North America, please visit CAN's May Day page.  
  • The Facebook event has over 700 individuals marking it on their calendars. 
  • From  the Boston Globe to the LA Times, May Day is being noted in newspapers nationwide. 
  • Local bloggers like those in Detroit, the Oregon Coast, and Maryland (thanks VOLT!) are promoting CAN's FREE Acupuncture on their blogs.
  • We even have national chains helping to spread the word (check-out the Holiday Inn FB post on March 31st).

Friends ~ we hope to see you in our clinics on May Day!

By Walter Crane,  April 13th, 1894 for The Workers Maypole cartoon, published in Justice

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What if...

 by Jessica Feltz on 03/13/10

...you possessed information about a health care facility that treated virtually every physical ailment a person might have, for as little as $15? Imagine if insurance coverage was not required and there were no income verifications to receive care at this clinic...everybody paid on the same, affordable sliding scale ($15 - $35).

And what if your friends--those with insomnia, headaches, digestive complaints, or anxiety--had never heard about this clinic? Would you tell your family--those with any conceivable variety of pain, hot flashes, PMS, fibromyalgia, or asthma--about it?

What if this clinic didn't use any pharmaceuticals or invasive surgeries? The procedures they favored had no negative side effects. In fact, some of the "side effects" were so positive (mood elevation, stress-reduction, and relaxation) that many people who had nothing really wrong with them chose to visit it regularly, just because they liked it.

What if there was a clinic like this in every city across the country: everywhere you have a relative, friend, or acquaintance? What if you knew about this hidden treasure in their community, but they had not yet discovered it...wouldn't you want to share the secret with them?

This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEsHXG4yuvs) is about the Community Acupuncture Network. With over 1,000 members and 150 clinics (more opening every day), there's bound to be a clinic near someone you care about: someone who is struggling with health issues, or who is uninsured, or who is --*gasp*--experiencing stress.

Take a minute to pass this video along.  It just might change someone's life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEsHXG4yuvs

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Why I *Heart* Community Acupuncture

 by Jessica Feltz on 02/24/10

In 1962, a small town in Eastern Pennsylvania was discovered to have a medical mystery: a mortality rate from heart disease that was less than half that of any other locale. That, in and of itself, is remarkable. But when noted alongside the fact that these townies smoked like chimneys, drank wine as though it flowed from faucets, worked in notoriously toxic environments, and ate cholesterol-laden and lard-fried foods...well...Roseto, PA raised a few eyebrows.
 
In a scene from the movie Outbreak, investigators descended upon Roseto with the blessings of Federal and State governments to learn why Roseto had one of the healthiest communities in the world. Said sociologist John Bruhn, one of the original investigators, "There was no suicide, no alcoholism, no drug addiction, and very little crime. They didn't have anyone on welfare. Then we looked at peptic ulcers. They didn't have any of those either. These people were dying of old age. That's it."
 
Why? How? Was it something in the water? A genetic component unique to their Italian heritage? No: the Rosetans' hearts were simply nourished by Love.
 
Families were close knit, self-supportive and independent, and they also relied (in bad times) on the greater community for assistance and friendly help. Rosetans, regardless of income and education, expressed themselves in a family-centered social life. There was a total absence of pretension among the wealthy, meaning that those who had more money didn't flaunt it and they helped the unsuccessful obscure their failures. There was nearly exclusive patronage of local businesses, even with nearby bigger shops and stores in neighboring towns. Wealthier towns suffered from heart disease even though their medical facilities, diet, and occupations were better or equivalent to the Rosetans. No one was alone in Roseto. No one seemed too unhappy or too stressed out. And the proof was in a heart attack death rate almost half that of everyone else around them.
 
I love this story because it reminds me of what I appreciate about our Community Acupuncture Clinic:
  • Two-for-One on Tuesdays helps to knit the networks that nourish our Hearts.
  • The friendships we foster and the family ties we support in our multi-chair treatment room provide the foundation for healthy communities outside its walls.
  • Our narrow sliding scale ($15 - $35) promotes an absence of ostention.
  • Our efforts to support local businesses, schools, and organizations through various collaborations breathes fresh Qi into the fabric of our neighborhoods.
  • A handful of nickel-needles can hold their own in terms of medical prowess.
  • Love for one another is the best medicine of all.

Connecting our communities, bringing joyfulness into our experiences, removing the sticky film of stress that coats so many of our lives...these simple tasks can recreate the Roseto-effect in our own Loving community. Thank you all for bringing The Turning Point into your lives.

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