The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

Siri Baruc Thornton
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Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% globally ranked podcast for women who are ready to expand their capacity to feel good, embody their truth, and create from wholeness. Here, we explore what it really means to live and lead from authenticity. What if feeling good in your body, your work, and your life isn’t indulgent, but the key to everything? Each week, you’ll hear intimate conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, healers, and visionaries who are redefining success through creativity and embodiment. Alongside these stories, host Siri Baruc Thornton: Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Breathwork guide, retreat creator, and podcaster — shares grounded spiritual tools, somatic practices, and lived wisdom from her work leading retreats for women around the world. You’ll also be invited into monthly women’s circles and leadership panels, where diverse voices gather around a new theme each time, exploring embodiment, abundance, creativity, leadership, or the art of truly feeling good. With listeners in over 65 countries, this podcast is both sanctuary and spark: a reminder that you don’t need to push to create, or perform to belong. You get to feel good. You get to embody your truth. And from that place, your most authentic life and art flow effortlessly. Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com

  1. Recovering a Sense of Integrity: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 4

    3H AGO

    Recovering a Sense of Integrity: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 4

    In Episode 4 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of integrity and reconnect with wholeness inside creativity, family life, responsibility, and devotion. I share personal reflections about recording this series while caring for my 2 boys, my husband, our dogs, our home, and navigating a head cold, and how integrity has been teaching me that creativity and caregiving can belong inside the same life. I also reflect on my relationship with perfectionism and how perfection can sometimes disguise itself as integrity, while true integrity invites alignment with values, honesty, and compassion for our humanity. Inspired by Chapter 4 of The Artist’s Way, this episode explores integrity as living in alignment with your creative truth rather than striving for flawless performance. This episode includes a gentle breathwork and visualization designed to help you gather the scattered parts of your life, reconnect with your inner alignment, and remember your wholeness. You are encouraged to move through this series in order, daily or weekly, and consider choosing an inspiration partner to witness the journey with you. If this work is resonating and you feel drawn to go deeper, I offer a private 12 session breathwork journey inspired by the chapters of The Artist’s Way. This is a space to be fully held as you embody the themes and recover yourself with support: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/12-transformational-breathwork-reiki-the-artists-way-series I am also hosting The Authentic Creative: Breathwork and Reiki by the Sea, a women’s retreat taking place May 3-6 on the Oregon Coast. There are a few spots remaining. If you feel curious, you are welcome to email me and we can explore together whether it is the right fit. Thank you for continuing. I am so glad you are here. Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton Email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com All offerings: www.sageandblushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    15 min
  2. Recovering a Sense of Power: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 3

    1D AGO

    Recovering a Sense of Power: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 3

    In Episode 3 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of creative power and reconnect with the part of you that has choice, agency, and voice, even when doubt, fear, or past experiences have made that feel distant. I reflect on how power is often misunderstood and how many sensitive and creative people learn to distance themselves from power because it has been modeled as control, dominance, or perfection. This episode explores how creative power lives in presence, small choices, and the willingness to begin before certainty arrives. I also share personal reflections on how being a healer, wife, mom and retreat leader helped me experience power as something that emerges when ego softens, and how that freedom can be remembered and accessed through breath, creativity, and presence in everyday life. This episode includes a gentle breathwork and visualization designed to help you reconnect with your inner authority, release fear around creative expression, and step toward your life with greater trust in your own voice. I encourage you to move through this series in order, daily or weekly, and consider choosing an inspiration partner to witness the journey with you. If this work is resonating and you feel drawn to go deeper, I offer a private 12 session breathwork journey inspired by the chapters of The Artist’s Way. This is a space to be fully held as you embody the themes and recover yourself with support: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/12-transformational-breathwork-reiki-the-artists-way-series I am also hosting The Authentic Creative: Breathwork and Reiki by the Sea, a women’s retreat taking place May 3-6 on the Oregon Coast. There are a few spots remaining. If you feel curious, you are welcome to email me and we can explore together whether it is the right fit. Thank you for continuing. I am so glad you are here. Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton Email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com All offerings: www.sageandblushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    15 min
  3. Recovering a Sense of Identity: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 2

    2D AGO

    Recovering a Sense of Identity: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 2

    In Episode 2 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of identity and reconnect with the creative self underneath roles, labels, and expectations. I reflect on growing up as the eldest daughter and being labeled as difficult or too much, and how reclaiming early identities can become part of creative and emotional liberation. I also share realizations from guided ceremonial mushroom journeys that revealed how fluid identity can be and how freedom can be remembered through breath, creativity, and presence. This episode includes a gentle breathwork and visualization designed to help you release limiting labels and reconnect with your authentic voice. I encourage you to move through this series in order, daily or weekly, and consider choosing an inspiration partner to witness the journey with you. If this work is resonating and you feel drawn to go deeper, I offer a private 12 session breathwork journey inspired by the chapters of The Artist’s Way. This is a space to be fully held as you embody the themes and recover yourself with support: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/12-transformational-breathwork-reiki-the-artists-way-series I am also hosting The Authentic Creative: Breathwork and Reiki by the Sea, a women’s retreat taking place May 3-6 on the Oregon Coast. There are 3 spots remaining. If you feel curious, you are welcome to email me and we can explore together whether it is the right fit. Thank you for beginning. I’m so glad you’re here. Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton Email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com All offerings: www.sageandbushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    17 min
  4. Recovering a Sense of Safety: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 1

    2D AGO

    Recovering a Sense of Safety: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 1

    Welcome to Episode 1 of a 12 part devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way. This series is an invitation to walk chapter by chapter through one of the most enduring creative and spiritual texts of our time as a lived, embodied experience. In this opening episode, we begin where the book begins: with safety. I share a bit about how The Artist’s Way entered my life at 19 through an acting teacher, and how it became a gateway into creativity, spirituality, and returning to myself again and again across the years. We explore what it means to recover a sense of safety in the body, in creativity, and in desire. We reflect on how external rejection can become internal self stopping, and how gentleness is often the true beginning of creative life. You are also guided through a short breathwork and visualization designed to help safety settle in the body, offering a foundation for the chapters to come. In this episode, you will experience: An orientation to The Artist’s Way as a living, relational textA reflection on recovering a sense of safety as the foundation of creativityA gentle breathwork and visualization to support nervous system settlingA reminder that recovering ourselves is an ongoing practiceYou are invited to listen to this series sequentially, whether daily or weekly, and to consider choosing an inspiration partner or creative companion to walk through the episodes with you. Not to fix or analyze anything, but simply to witness and reflect together. If this work is resonating and you feel drawn to go deeper, I offer a private 12 session breathwork journey inspired by the chapters of The Artist’s Way. This is a space to be fully held as you embody the themes and recover yourself with support: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/12-transformational-breathwork-reiki-the-artists-way-series I am also hosting The Authentic Creative: Breathwork and Reiki by the Sea, a women’s retreat taking place May 3-6 on the Oregon Coast. There are 3 spots remaining. If you feel curious, you are welcome to email me and we can explore together whether it is the right fit. Thank you for beginning. I’m so glad you’re here. Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton Email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com All offerings: www.sageandbushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    13 min
  5. Presence, Priorities, Pleasure & Finding Your People with Zoe Kelsey

    JAN 28

    Presence, Priorities, Pleasure & Finding Your People with Zoe Kelsey

    I dialogue with Zoe Kelsey, founder of We Shine Well, a community marketing strategist and natural dot connector devoted to helping women in wellness grow through authentic connection and collaboration. In this episode, Zoe shares her simple framework of presence, priorities, pleasure and how it supports finding your people, building real community, and becoming more visible in a way that still feels grounded and true. Together, Zoe and I explore belonging, Human Design, breathwork as somatic release, and why Zoe believes true community is reciprocal, like a potluck. In this episode, you will hear • How Zoe went from 10 years at LinkedIn to building We Shine Well • What dot connecting actually looks like and why relationships are the real strategy • Presence as the missing ingredient in collaboration and community • The 3 Ps: presence, priorities, pleasure and why pleasure belongs on the calendar • Belonging, self trust, and what it really means to find your people • Breathwork, embodiment, and why the body often knows before the mind • What We Shine Well offers: curated introductions, community calls, in person meetups, and an annual summit Connect with Zoe Instagram: @weshinewell Website: weshinewell.com Podcast: We Shine Well Podcast Substack: We Shine Well on Substack If this episode supported you, share it with 2 friends, then rate and review The Authentic Creative on Apple Podcasts so more people can find these conversations. If you want to work with me beyond the podcast, I would love to hold you. I guide transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, in person fireside journeys, online sessions you can do from your cozy bed, private sessions, retreats, and intimate group experiences that support nervous system safety, emotional release, and a deeper return to your creative power. Explore what is coming up next at www.sageandblushwellness.com Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton, or email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    46 min
  6. Rising Above the Stars: Destiny, Free Will + Soul Contracts with Danielle Paige

    JAN 25

    Rising Above the Stars: Destiny, Free Will + Soul Contracts with Danielle Paige

    In this episode, I am in dialogue with international consciousness guide and soul astrologer Danielle Paige about destiny, free will, and soul contracts, and what it really means to rise above the stars. Danielle shares her age 30 awakening, why real astrology is not about predictions, and how discernment and nervous system safety support embodied intuition. She also offers a mini reading from my chart, highlighting New Moon initiation energy and the Pisces to Virgo path of intuition evolving into clarity. In this episode • Destiny, vocation, and soul contracts, plus where choice lives inside the transits • Why real astrology is pattern recognition and timing, not fear based prediction • Discernment, boundaries, and intuition without rescuing or martyring • Nervous system safety, embodiment, and the daily practices that change your life • Mini chart reading highlights: New Moon energy, Pisces South Node to Virgo North Node, and voice as a soul level assignment • Soulmates, synastry, and why compatibility is nuanced, layered, and learnable Links • Danielle Paige: daniellepaige.com • Danielle on Instagram: @iamdaniellepaige • Danielle’s 2026 Astrology Forecast Bundle: https://courses.daniellepaige.com/2026-astrology-forecast-bundle If this episode supported you, share it with 2 friends, then rate and review The Authentic Creative on Apple Podcasts so more people can find these conversations. If you want to work with me beyond the podcast, I would love to hold you. I guide transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, in person fireside journeys, online sessions you can do from your cozy bed, private sessions, retreats, and intimate group experiences that support nervous system safety, emotional release, and a deeper return to your creative power. Explore what is coming up next at www.sageandblushwellness.com Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton, or email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    53 min
  7. The Dahlia Turns Inward: Rest, Rhythm, Bloom with Melody Godfred

    JAN 19

    The Dahlia Turns Inward: Rest, Rhythm, Bloom with Melody Godfred

    What if turning inward is not retreat. What if it is the pause that gathers your power. In this episode, I am in dialogue with poet and author Melody Godfred about rest, rhythm, and blooming in your own time. We move from her origin story as an Iranian Jewish immigrant family escaping the Iranian revolution to the unexpected global sisterhood sparked by the Self Love Pinky Ring. We read poetry together, talk motherhood with startling honesty, and explore how nature, moon cycles, and quiet inner moments can return us to ourselves. The message is simple and brave: trust yourself. In this episode • The Dahlia Turns Inward and why contraction can be preparation for your fullest bloom • The Self Love Pinky Ring origin story and the pledge that became a worldwide sisterhood • Phoenix Rising and the sound bath moment that brought the poem through • Melody’s journey from creative child to attorney to poet and the reclamation of her truest self • Motherhood as too much and not enough and how she makes space for the wild woman too • Moon Garden, signs in Ojai, circles becoming moons, and why manifestation is surrender and release Moon Garden: Poetry for Manifestation: https://amzn.to/3EeWyOW Instagram: @melodygodfred   Substack: The Poetry Oracle Work with Siri: If you want to work with me beyond the podcast, I would love to hold you. I guide transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, in person fireside journeys, online sessions you can do from your cozy bed, private sessions, retreats, and intimate group experiences that support nervous system safety, emotional release, and a deeper return to your creative power. Explore what is coming up next at www.sageandblushwellness.com connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton, or email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com Send us a text Support the show

    59 min
  8. Money Loves Me: Unconditional Love & the Embodiment of Abundance with Farah Orths

    JAN 13

    Money Loves Me: Unconditional Love & the Embodiment of Abundance with Farah Orths

    In this episode, I dialogue with Farah Orths, Hay House author of Money Loves Me, a channel, musician, and spiritual mentor devoted to bringing unconditional love of the Divine into the human realm and the felt sense of self. Together, we explore money as a powerful doorway into the deeper work beneath the numbers: nervous system safety, embodied receiving, shame and worthiness, and the remembrance that abundance is something you can actually hold. What we cover • Why money mirrors where we do not yet feel safe to receive love, support, and life itself • How scarcity and shame can live in the body, and why unworthiness is often the root beneath overgiving, undercharging, and proving • “Containers of Divine love” and how devotion and ceremony help the nervous system soften into trust • Simple embodied practices to open receivership, including consciously receiving the support of the chair, bed, or earth beneath you • The loyalty to suffering and the fear of leaving your lineage or tribe behind when you choose ease • A mini money ceremony to alchemize shame into honesty, love, and self trust “Your humanness is not a block to your magnetism. There’s nothing wrong with your humanness.” - Farah Orths Website: farahorths.com  Instagram: @farahorths If this episode moved something in you and you are ready to expand your capacity to feel good and receive with more safety and self trust, I would love to support you. You can work with me through a private 12 session Breathwork Reiki journey, or join me in person at my Breathwork Reiki retreat on the Oregon Coast in Rockaway Beach, May 3-6. Learn more and book at www.sageandblushwellness.com Come say hi on Instagram @siribaructhornton Send us a text Support the show

    59 min
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Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% globally ranked podcast for women who are ready to expand their capacity to feel good, embody their truth, and create from wholeness. Here, we explore what it really means to live and lead from authenticity. What if feeling good in your body, your work, and your life isn’t indulgent, but the key to everything? Each week, you’ll hear intimate conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, healers, and visionaries who are redefining success through creativity and embodiment. Alongside these stories, host Siri Baruc Thornton: Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Breathwork guide, retreat creator, and podcaster — shares grounded spiritual tools, somatic practices, and lived wisdom from her work leading retreats for women around the world. You’ll also be invited into monthly women’s circles and leadership panels, where diverse voices gather around a new theme each time, exploring embodiment, abundance, creativity, leadership, or the art of truly feeling good. With listeners in over 65 countries, this podcast is both sanctuary and spark: a reminder that you don’t need to push to create, or perform to belong. You get to feel good. You get to embody your truth. And from that place, your most authentic life and art flow effortlessly. Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com

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