The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2% 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
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
After Party Magic: Gratitude, Joy & Polishing Each Other in Community
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In this spontaneous and soulful after party following our Spring Equinox and International Day of Happiness panel, we dive into the rich reflections and lingering heart wisdom that surfaced once the formal conversation ended.
We explore the beautiful truth that “the mud is fuel”—how the challenges we face are the very ground from which our light and transformation can bloom. From Buddhist teachings about blooming from the mud and polishing each other in community, to personal stories about healing, embodiment, and choosing joy, this after party is filled with real talk, laughter, and tenderness.
We speak about:
- Gratitude as a foundational spiritual practice and gateway to abundance
- Finding presence in everyday moments like brushing our teeth or watching the sunrise
- Remembering that we are already enough—and acting from that truth
- Community as a mirror and a polishing tool for growth
- The power of living fully in the now, not waiting for joy to come later
- And the beauty of sharing space with women on a healing, creative path
From sunrise in Australia to divine downloads in Florida, this episode captures the joy and wisdom that arises when powerful women come together and speak from the heart: unscripted, unfiltered, and full of soul.
Shoutouts include:
Claudia’s powerful podcast Don’t Shrink to Fit and her award-winning children’s book Secrets Don’t Include Mom, as well as everyone’s heartfelt reflections on the importance of gratitude, presence, and self-trust.
This is it. This is the moment. This is the joy.
Thanks for staying for the after party! We're so glad you're here.
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I was born in a Sikh yoga ashram in Boston and raised among healers in Vermont. After 25 years as a professional actor, my true calling is guiding others through breathwork, Reiki, and Akashic Records. I live near Portland, Oregon, with my husband, two boys, and our dogs, finding joy in music, nature, and deep soul work.
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