The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
The Authentic Creative is a top 2% globally ranked podcast hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton.
Every conversation is an invitation to come home to yourself.
With more than 316 episodes and listeners in 65+ countries, Siri has welcomed Emmy Award winners, New York Times bestselling authors, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, spiritual teachers, researchers, and everyday people whose stories illuminate what it means to be fully human.
Every episode begins with curiosity.
Together we explore creativity, healing, psychology, spirituality, relationships, purpose, nervous system regulation, and the beautifully imperfect human experience. These conversations invite honesty, deepen compassion, expand perspective, and remind us that healing often begins the moment we feel deeply seen.
The subtitle of this podcast is Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good.
Feeling good begins with expanding our capacity to fully experience life—with love, grief, wonder, uncertainty, creativity, gratitude, joy, and compassion. As that capacity grows, so does our ability to live authentically, create courageously, love deeply, and meet life with presence.
Alongside intimate conversations, you’ll also find guided meditations, Transformational Breathwork, Reiki teachings, and solo reflections that offer practical tools for healing, authentic living, and personal growth.
Everything I create is rooted in one intention:
Creating extraordinary spaces where people feel deeply seen, safe to tell the truth, and remember who they truly are.
Whether you’ve been listening since the very beginning or you’re pressing play for the first time, I’m honored you’re here.
Welcome to The Authentic Creative.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Parenting + Partnership: 10 Tips for Regulating the Nervous System
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Some mornings feel calm and connected.
Other mornings… everyone is triggered.
In this minisode, I share 10 practical tools for regulating the nervous system in the moments when parenting, partnership, and life all collide at once.
These are simple practices I use and teach when emotions are high, time is short, and everyone’s nervous system needs support.
Because the goal isn’t perfection.
The goal is connection, regulation, and repair.
In this short episode I talk about tools that help when:
• a child is overwhelmed or anxious
• you and your partner have different stress responses
• everyone in the house is activated at the same time
• you need to calm the moment quickly and move forward
These tools help us pause escalation and return to connection.
10 Nervous System Regulation Tools
Here are the tools I walk through in this episode:
• Pause the momentum
• Slow your breathing and lengthen the exhale
• Name what is happening emotionally
• Change your physical posture to signal safety
• Validate feelings before solving the problem
• Break overwhelming moments into tiny steps
• Understand different stress responses in couples
• Use gentle touch or proximity for co-regulation
• Repair quickly when things get heated
• Remember that nervous system activation is temporary
One of the things I remind myself of constantly:
The goal is not to eliminate difficult moments.
The goal is learning how to return to connection, regulation, and repair.
Parenting and partnership are powerful places to practice nervous system awareness. And every moment of repair strengthens the relationship.
If this episode spoke to you, share it with a partner, friend, or parent who might benefit from these tools. Sometimes the smallest nervous system shifts create the biggest changes in a family.
If you’re interested in going deeper into nervous system healing and emotional regulation, I offer:
• Private transformational breathwork and reiki sessions
• The Authentic Creative podcast conversations
• Retreats and in-person experiences
You can learn more at
sageandblushwellness.com
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