Jessica Porter

Jessica Porter teaches macrobiotic cooking classes in Santa Monica, CA, where she lectures on the spiritual and emotional dimensions of macrobiotic practice. Practicing macrobiotics for 19 years, she has also taught cooking in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Portland, Maine and London. When not writing, cooking or teaching macrobiotics, Jessica is a hypnotherapist specializing in smoking cessation and HypnoBirthing. She is a faculty member of the HypnoBirthing Institute, recipient of its Director's Award, and trains midwives and doctors in the technique throughout North America, Europe, and South Africa. Porter has also produced two hypnosis CDs - Healing with the Hip Chick, and Hip Chick Hypnosis - for people practicing the macrobiotic diet. Jessica is the author of The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics and she collaborated with Alicia Silverstone on the New York Times bestseller, The Kind Diet."

Jessica is offering the following service in her private sessions:

Hypnotherapy Consultation - Hypnosis is a relaxed, comfortable and effective way to get past the chatter of the mind and contact your deeper, wiser self. Using this technique, you can let go of old clutter--resentments, negative attachments, anger--and build a better future using deep, positive visualizations and affirmations. Hypnosis is great for self-esteem, phobias, smoking cessation (although that takes multiple sessions and would only begin at the conference), and just about any other knot the mind ties itself into. I'm also happy to work on food issues, but I do not concentrate on weight loss. I have found that macrobiotic people are exceptional hypnotic subjects and do a lot of powerful changing easily and quickly. If it pertains to the session, we can make a personalized take-home hypnosis CD.

1) $250 - Hypnotherapy Consultation (1.5 Hr)