Unwind with Jessica Porter

Deep Unwind: Nothing to Solve Tonight 🌙 What if relaxing your mind is one of the smartest things you can do? Have you ever noticed that your best ideas often arrive when you've stopped trying so hard to find them? That's because your mind has a remarkable ability to make connections, process experiences, and discover new possibilities beneath your conscious awareness. In this soothing g...

Deep Unwind Kitchen: Baking Cinnamon Buns 🥣 Step into a cozy old New England kitchen on a crisp autumn morning, where colorful leaves dance outside the windows, seagulls call overhead, and the wonderful aroma of freshly baked cinnamon buns fills the air. In this deliciously soothing guided relaxation, you'll experience the simple pleasures of baking from scratch. Feel the soft dough beneath...

Daily Unwind: Rewire Your Anxious Nervous System in Under 30 Minutes 🧠  What if you could teach your nervous system a new way to respond to anxiety? Our subconscious minds are extraordinary learning machines. Through repetition, they develop habits and automatic responses—including the habit of becoming increasingly activated when we encounter uncertainty or stress. But the same learning ability...

Deep Unwind: Finding Your Oasis of Calm 🌴  What if calm isn't somewhere you have to escape to, but a place within you... that you can return to, tend, and strengthen? In this Daily Unwind, we travel into the desert toward a cool, green oasis: palm trees moving in the breeze, clear water fed by an underground spring, smooth stones warmed by the sun. As the body settles and the mind softens, t...

Deep Unwind: Practicing Gratitude to Stay Centered 🙏  When the world feels uncertain, gratitude can bring us back to the place where our own life is actually happening: inside our bodies, inside our nervous systems, and within our own spheres of influence. In this Deep Unwind, we settle into a deeply relaxed state and explore gratitude as a way of grounding ourselves in what is here, what is mean...

Deep Unwind Library: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 📖  Relax into one of the most beloved spiritual novels of the twentieth century: Siddhartha . We’ll begin with some fascinating background on Hermann Hesse—his unusual childhood connection to India, his own restless search for spiritual understanding, and the remarkable second life his work found among the counterculture of the 1960s. At the heart...

Daily Unwind: Unplug and Recharge 🔌  We spend so much of our lives plugged in—to phones, computers, the news, social media--as we vibrate with the constant buzz of the digital world. In this Daily Unwind, we power it all down and return to quieter, more powerful, sources of energy. We’ll begin by relaxing deeply into the body, allowing all that digital energy to drain away. Then, we recharge by c...

Deep Unwind: Relax Into Change… A Little at a Time 🍁  Change rarely happens all at once. A whisper of cool air appears in the late-summer breeze. A single maple leaf turns yellow. One small shift creates the conditions for another, until almost imperceptibly, something new has emerged.   In this Deep Unwind, Jessica explores the gentle, incremental nature of change and the remarkable ways your bo...

Daily Unwind: Create a Healthy Trigger 👌  We hear a lot about triggers—the words, events, sensations and experiences that can create powerful emotional responses. But what if you could intentionally create a trigger for something you want to feel? In this Daily Unwind, Jessica guides you into a deeply relaxed state and introduces a simple practice for creating a positive association between a phy...

Deep Unwind: Relax Into the Sweetness of Late Summer 🌽  Late Summer has a rhythm all its own—a time when gardens are full, sunlight turns golden, sweet foods ripen, and the expansive energy of summer begins to settle. Inspired by the fifth season of Traditional Chinese Medicine, this Deep Unwind takes you into a late-summer garden at the end of a warm day. As you relax more and more deeply, you&a...

Daily Unwind: Come Back to Your Senses 👂 Your senses offer six different channels into the experience of being alive. In this Daily Unwind, Jessica leads you through a simple sensory practice inspired by an exercise she learned at New York City's School of Practical Philosophy. You'll move through touch, hearing, sight, smell and taste, before turning your awareness inward to notice the...

Deep Unwind: Practicing Self Acceptance 💚 What if you accept yourself ... as you are? In this Deep Unwind, you'll follow a quiet path through the woods, at the edge of a moonlit lake, to a hammock suspended between two maple trees. Wrapped in a warm blanket beneath the stars, you'll settle deeper and deeper as the waves whisper against the shore. Beginning with the physical body, you&ap...

Deep Unwind: A Sensory Scan 🖐️  Your senses are always listening. Every moment of every day, your skin receives the gentle touch of air. Your ears welcome sounds from near and far. Your eyes, your nose, your mouth, and every part of your body quietly gather information about the world around you—often without asking for your attention at all. In this Deep Unwind, you'll discover how simply be...

Deep Unwind Library: Summer by Edith Wharton 📖  Time to relax with a great book! In this Deep Unwind, you'll settle into deep relaxation before being transported to the quiet hills of western Massachusetts through the exquisite prose of Edith Wharton's Summer . Set on a shimmering lake, this  passage captures the beauty, anticipation, and emotional intensity of a romantic evening betwee...

Daily Unwind: You Run Your Life 🧭 Life rarely unfolds exactly as we hope. We can't control every circumstance, every conversation, or every unexpected turn. But there is one place where your influence is profound: within your own mind, body, and nervous system. In this Daily Unwind, you'll discover how relaxation creates a little more space between what happens to you and how you respon...

Deep Unwind: Baklava in Istanbul 🕌 Some places invite you to slow down ... In this Deep Unwind, you'll wander the ancient streets of Istanbul, where Europe meets Asia, and centuries of history unfold around every corner. As the scents of Turkish coffee, sesame bread, and roasted pistachios drift through the air, you'll discover a small neighborhood bakery where time seems to move at a g...

Deep Unwind: Bye Bye Perfecktionism 🌊 Seeking perfection can be an inspiring goal in some areas of life: A musician practices until the notes are just right; a baker carefully measures each ingredient. But perfectionism is something different. It asks us to believe that we must somehow become finished—complete, flawless, and beyond improvement. In this Deep Unwind, you'll gently loosen the g...

Daily Unwind: You Are Whole 🌳 You may feel broken at times, but what if you actually aren't? We all have moments when we feel disconnected from ourselves—fragmented by stress, loss, self-doubt, or old stories we've carried for far too long. But beneath those experiences is something quieter, steadier, and remarkably resilient. In this Daily Unwind, you'll gently settle into deep re...

Deep Unwind: Unwind with the Stoics 🏛️  What if peace is found in simply recognizing what is—and isn't—within your control? In this Deep Unwind, you'll journey back to ancient Athens, where olive trees sway over weathered marble, cicadas sing beneath the warm Mediterranean sun, and one of history's most influential philosophies quietly began. As your body relaxes into a deeply resto...

Reconnecting with Your Why ⛽  In the rush of everyday life, it's easy to lose sight of why we're doing what we're doing. We become busy, distracted, caffeinated, productive... and somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with the deeper motivations that give our lives meaning and direction. In this Daily Unwind, you'll first settle into a deeply relaxed state before gently e...

  Full Body Release 🌸 Unwinding isn't just about letting your muscles soften. Sometimes it's about letting go of the beliefs that have quietly convinced you that rest isn't safe, or unproductive, or that you don't deserve it. In this gentle hypnosis, you'll travel through each area of your body, releasing physical tension while also exploring the unconscious patterns that...

Drop Your Worries What happens when you care deeply about the people in your life, but find yourself carrying their struggles as though they were your own? Inspired by a listener's question, this Deep Unwind is for anyone who feels responsible for fixing, managing, mediating, or holding everything together. Parents, partners, caregivers, helpers, and highly sensitive souls often carry more th...

💛 The Kindness Beneath It All These days, it can feel as though humanity is being pulled apart at the seams.  The loudest voices often rise to the surface, and the endless stream of information can leave us feeling disconnected from one another. In this Deep Unwind, we explore a different possibility. By going into deep relaxation, you'll reconnect with a quieter layer of human experience—th...

We live in a world that encourages us to solve, strategize, analyze, and push our way forward. But what if your greatest source of power doesn't come from effort? In today's Daily Unwind, we explore a different possibility. As your body relaxes, you'll journey below the busy thinking mind and reconnect with one of the deeper sources of wisdom within you—your heart. Together, we&apos...

In this episode of Unwind, we explore the habit of spiraling thoughts and discover a different way of working with them. Rather than fighting the mental looping, or attempting to control it, this episode will help you reconnect with the deeper currents beneath mental activity. As the body relaxes, the spiraling energy begins to move down through the heart, and the body, becoming more grounded, cre...