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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Episodes
322 episodes
I Feel Free: The Power of Feeling Safe Enough to Tell the Truth
After our Let It Be Easier women's panel, Amanda Folkestad sent me a voice note.Listening to it brought me back to something I witness again and again. We spend so much of our lives wondering whether this is the right time, the ...
Let It Be Easier: A Conversation About Trusting Life, Even When It's Hard
When we arrive in our bodies first, through breakthwork and reiki, we tell a different kind of truth. That's exactly what happened here. What unfolded was a group of women showing up honestly, allowing themselves to be seen, and trusting that w...
The Healing Power of Safe Relationship with Mike Elliott
What if the thing you're longing for isn't success, certainty, or control?What if it's safety?Today I'm in conversation with Mike Elliott, a relationship coach, breathwork facilitator, and guide for men who are longing for deeper ...
The Power of Reiki for Anxiety, Burnout + Overwhelm: Real Stories After Reiki Attunements
Anxiety. Burnout. Overwhelm. So many of us are living in a constant state of doing, giving, striving, and holding it all together.What if healing isn't about pushing harder?What if healing begins when we finally allow ourselves to...
What's Possible for You? A Voice Note from Dr. Saidie Rodriguez
After our recent Edge of Expansion panel, Dr. Saidie sent me a voice note that moved me so deeply.With her wholehearted permission, I'm sharing it with you today because it beautifully captures something I witness again and again in this...
The Edge of Expansion: Conversations That Change Us
What does expansion actually look like in real life?In this powerful panel conversation, I sit down with an extraordinary group of women to explore what it means to live at the edge of expansion.Together, we share stories about vi...
The Wisdom of Just for Today
In this Reiki minisode, I guide you through the 5 Reiki Principles, the spiritual foundation of the traditional Usui Reiki practice.These simple teachings have supported practitioners around the world for generations because they invite ...
You Are a Healing Link in the Chain
In this guided Reiki meditation, I invite you to slow down, soften, and reconnect with the light already living within you.Together we'll journey through breath, presence, energetic boundaries, self healing, intuition, and ancestral conn...
Inside My Reiki Binder: Stories, Science & the Sacred Transmission of Love
In this Reiki minisode, I open the binders, teachings, notes, quotes, lineage stories, and reflections that have traveled with me through more than 30 years of Reiki practice and teaching.This episode is a deeper dive into the philosophy...
Awakening the Energy Within: A Guided Chakra Meditation with Siri
In this guided chakra meditation, I lead you on a gentle journey through the 7 energy centers of the body, inviting grounding, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, empowerment, intuition, heart opening, expression, and deeper connectio...
A Meditative Journey Through Lineage: The Living Light of Reiki with Siri
In this guided storytelling minisode, I share the history and lineage of Reiki beginning with Dr. Mikao Usui’s awakening on Mount Kurama and tracing the path of Reiki through generations of teachers until it eventually reached my hands.T...
Returning to the Light in Our Hands with Siri
In this episode, I share the story of how Reiki first entered my life through my mother’s healing journey and how the practice quietly transformed the course of my life and work over the past 30+ years.This conversation explores:• wh...
Caretaking & Entrepreneurship: a dialogue that sees us in our truth
In this expansive and deeply honest conversation on The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good, I dialogue with an incredible group of women about entrepreneurship, caretaking, creativity, nervous system regulation, motherhood,...
Designing Your Space for the Life You Want with Olga Naiman
In this episode, I dialogue with Olga Naiman, a designer, author, and visionary whose work lives at the intersection of psychology, embodiment, and the spaces we inhabit.From her early life as a child refugee to becoming the voice behind...
The Connection Between Courage, Confidence & Self Love
This morning’s minisode is completely unscripted and unedited. I followed what was alive for me in the moment, and what came through was a conversation I didn’t plan but clearly needed to have with you.It began with something simple. A n...
A New Relationship with Wealth with Sarah McCrum
In this conversation, I dialogue with Sarah McCrum, author of Love Money Money Loves You, and what unfolds is a deep and unexpected exploration of money as energy, as relationship, and as something that is actually responding to us.Sarah...
How to Stop Over-Holding + Begin Relating to Life Differently with Amber Lilyestrom
“I just let myself feel the ecstatic grief of all of that in the moment.” - Amber LilyestromIn this deeply moving and expansive conversation, I dialogue with Amber Lileystrom about what it means to build a life and business that actually...
Can You Handle the Truth: Making Something Real with Amy Skylark Foster
For 30 years I have been working with energy, breath, and the body, and this conversation meets that same level of truth through the lens of making, creating, and earning mastery.In this episode, I dialogue with Amy Foster, songwriter, n...
Spring Equinox, Receiving, and the Art of Letting Life Meet Us
This conversation unfolds right on the threshold of the spring equinox, in those first hours where something begins to shift.We begin just after a live breathwork session, with the panelists sharing what they experienced and what moved t...
When the Room Shifted: 5 Minute Meditations, Co Regulation + Motherhood with Jessie Larson
In this episode, I dialogue with Jessie Larson, co creator of Five Minute Meditations for Kids, about how simple, intentional moments can shift the entire energy of a home. I share the story of playing her meditation in the...
Parenting + Partnership: 10 Tips for Regulating the Nervous System
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 ...
Entrepreneurship, Authenticity, and Learning to Breathe with Stephanie Fodor MacDonald
In this episode of The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good, I dialogue with my neighbor and new friend Stephanie Fodor MacDonald for a deeply honest conversation about motherhood, entrepreneurship, creativity, ...
Broken
In this spontaneous minisode, I’m sharing a tender, frightening, and deeply spiritual experience that unfolded for my family in Maui when Bodhi broke his arm.I take you into the moment it happened on the beach, what moved through my body...
Sisterhood Rewritten: Healing Old Friendship Patterns + Creating a New Way of Being Together
This panel began with an intention to explore friendship patterns.What unfolded became something deeper.We gathered in circle and asked the question many women quietly carry:How do we stop betraying ourselves and still r...
Recovering a Sense of Faith: Embodied Companion to The Artist’s Way Part 12
In Episode 12, the final installment of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of faith and reconnect with trust as a creative, emotional, and spiritual practice....
