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
How to Stop Over-Holding + Begin Relating to Life Differently with Amber Lilyestrom
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“I just let myself feel the ecstatic grief of all of that in the moment.” - Amber Lilyestrom
In this deeply moving and expansive conversation, I dialogue with Amber Lileystrom about what it means to build a life and business that actually reflects who you are now, not who you’ve been conditioned to be.
Amber shares how her work has evolved into something more intimate, more precise, and more truth led. We explore the shift away from constant scaling into what she calls “right sized business,” where your life, your values, and your actual capacity guide what you create.
We talk about identity, self trust, and the patterns that quietly shape our results, especially in business and money. Amber introduces her Money Codes Method and how uncovering adaptive safety patterns can radically shift what’s possible without forcing or overcomplicating the process.
There’s also a powerful reframe around the nervous system. Amber questions the language itself, offering the idea that what we call the nervous system might actually be more like a grounding system or a root system, something stabilizing rather than something inherently anxious.
And at the end of this episode, Amber shares a poem from her book Little Big Beautiful Things, which is truly one of the most powerful moments of the conversation. It’s a visceral, emotional reflection on life, love, motherhood, and being held that you can feel in your body as you listen.
In this episode, we cover:
• The Dream Journal practice and how desire reveals deeper truth
• What it looks like to stop over holding and begin relating to life differently
• Right sized business and redefining success in a way that actually fits your life
• Why intimate spaces often create deeper and more sustainable transformation
• Amber’s Money Codes Method and uncovering adaptive safety patterns in business
• How identity and past experiences shape results more than strategy alone
• A reframe of the “nervous system” as grounding or root based support
• The role of truth, grief, and fully experiencing your life
• Letting go of outdated identities and returning to who you actually are
• The power of poetry as a transmission of truth and lived experience
Connect with Amber:
Website: amberlilystrom.com Instagram: @amberlilystrom Substack: Amber Lileystrom
If this conversation stirred something in you, especially around how much you’ve been holding and the desire to live and lead from a more grounded, embodied place, this is where my work meets you.
My 3 month private breathwork and Reiki container supports you in expanding your capacity to feel, process, and move what’s been held in the body so your life and work can actually align with who you are now.
This is intimate, real time support for women who are ready to stop overriding themselves and start living from a deeper place of truth.
Reach out to me directly to explore if this is aligned for you.
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