
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good with Siri Baruc Thornton, ranked in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally. What if feeling good was the most powerful creative tool you have? This podcast is a space to reclaim joy, alignment, and deep trust in yourself and the universe through healing, expression, and soulful connection. Hosted by Reiki Master, Transformational Breathwork and Akashic Record teacher, and podcaster Siri Baruc Thornton, The Authentic Creative brings you multiple episodes each week featuring inspiring conversations with heart-led entrepreneurs, artists, authors, and healers. You’ll also experience guided meditations, spiritual insights, and practical tools to support your emotional well-being and creative expansion. Together, we explore the intersection of creativity and healing: how nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and soul connection can unlock your most vibrant, purpose-filled life. Plus, tune in for powerful monthly Women’s Leadership Panels where visionary voices gather to explore embodiment, abundance, and sacred leadership in action. Listeners in over 65 countries come here to remember: You don’t have to push to create. You get to feel good. You get to be fully yourself. And from that place, you thrive authentically! Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance. Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
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In this expansive and grounding conversation, I dialogue with nervous system specialist and somatic guide Sarah Tacy, whose work helps high-achieving visionaries move from survival mode into embodied sovereignty. We explore how urgency culture disconnects us from our bodies, and how learning to pause, feel, and choose

Radiance + Renewal: A Summer Solstice Panel Embracing the Fullness of Our Creative Light
This episode is a homecoming. 11 radiant, real women gather to speak from the heart—sharing stories, practices, and revelations about what it means to live, lead, and create in full alignment with the light inside us. We talk about: ✨ What it means to feel safe with money 🌊 How nature reminds us we belong 💫 The beaut
In this heartfelt minisode of The Authentic Creative, I invite you into a tender space. Our 14-year-old Chihuahua Papillon, Charlie, took her final breath yesterday, surrounded by love. From urgent care on Father’s Day to the lake she loved and our final moments together, I share the full journey: one of ritual, rememb
In this intimate minisode, I invite you into a post-session reflection with my dear friend and soul sister, Rebecca Schlosser, after a powerful Reiki-focused breathwork session. We explore what becomes possible when the body feels safe, how the nervous system softens, the voice opens, and clarity flows with ease. This
In this radiant episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with the joyful, gifted, and deeply heart-centered Chef Sarah Maryatt-Worden, our Reiki Chef for the upcoming Reiki I & II Certification Retreat this July 21–23 in Camas, WA and co-host of the Goddess of Light Retreat this September 29–October 2. Sarah has o
This episode is a meditative, empowering journey into your intuitive gifts: the inner senses that awaken as you begin to align more deeply with Reiki and your own energetic frequency. Whether you"re preparing to receive a Reiki attunement, have already been attuned, or are simply curious about your intuitive blueprint,