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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

Written by: Siri Baruc Thornton
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Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% 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


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Episodes
  • Reclaiming the Woman Beneath the Roles
    Jan 11 2026

    A luminous morning panel on reclaiming the woman beneath the roles. After transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, this courageous circle shares what rises when the nervous system softens: rest that arrives through active breath, the liberation of sound and release, and the truth that you do not have to try so hard to be held, loved, or powerful. Together we explore shadow and light, rage and pleasure, identity and detachment, creativity and motherhood, and the practice of non resistance as a pathway back to wholeness. This episode is an invitation to feel the full spectrum and to remember you are not your roles. You are aliveness.

    Featuring
    Lillian Cohanzad @lilliancohanzad
    Paige Appel @paigeappel @riverbank___
    Meghan Blum @meghanbluminteriors
    Robyn Cohen @robyncohenactingstudio
    Karaleigh Garrison @karaleigh.garrison
    Julie Restivo @julierestivowrites
    Melody Godfred @melodygodfred
    Janelle Fitzpatrick @janellefitzpatrickcoaching
    Claudia Noriega Bernstein @claudia_noriega_bernstein

    If you felt this conversation in your body and want to go deeper, you are invited to join me on the Oregon coast for my Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki retreat May 3-6. You can also work with me privately through my 12 session breathwork series for deep nervous system support, emotional release, and lasting expansion.

    Learn more and book at www.sageandblushwellness.com
    Come say hi on Instagram @siribaructhornton

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • 5 tips to transition to the New Year + 10 Year Old’s Guide to Feeling Good
    Jan 1 2026

    In this special tradition episode, I share 5 simple tips to transition from 2025 to 2026 and then I’m joined by my son, Bodhi, for a 10 year old’s guide to feeling good. We talk about what helps him feel calm, confident, and most himself, plus the simple routines and practices that support him in daily life. We end with his best life advice: have fun in life because it’s short.

    In this episode

    • Swimming and what the water has taught him about breath
    • Friends, community, and what makes an environment feel fun and safe
    • Authenticity at 10 and where it feels easiest to be himself
    • Creativity as problem solving and building ideas with others
    • Morning routines that reduce stress and help him feel prepared
    • Intention setting, bubble colors, and grounding imagery
    • Bedtime meditation and how it supports sleep
    • Acting, nerves, and how he learns his lines

    Want to work with me

    If this episode made you want more calm, clarity, and nervous system support, come work with me through breathwork, Reiki, and retreats.

    Visit www.sageandblushwellness.com

    Follow @siribaructhornton
    Join me for my women’s retreat in May, details and registration are on my website under Retreats (May 3 to 6, Rockaway Beach, Oregon).

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    35 mins
  • The Sacred Ordinary: Everyday Miracles, Listening + the Magic in the Mundane
    Dec 13 2025

    In this intimate live panel, I guide a transformational breathwork journey infused with Reiki, then open a circle of truth telling on the theme The Sacred Ordinary. You will hear reflections on surrendering performance, listening beneath the mind, and trusting the small signals that guide us: the body’s clear yes and no, sound and silence as a map, nature as a mirror, creativity as a byproduct of regulation, and the pause between stimulus and response where everything can change. This conversation is a reminder that miracles are not only big dramatic moments. They live in kitchens, parking lots, relationships, workdays, and the simple act of coming back to yourself one breath at a time.

    Panelists
    Dana Schmit: @danaschmit_
    When Morrow: @_wrenmorrow
    Robyn Cohen: @robyncohenactingstudio
    Missy Yelton: @missybeth33
    Regina Woolson: @ginabellewool
    Jodi Kahn: @jodikahn_health
    Luana Makenzie: https://www.flykakao.com/?ref=siri

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    If you loved this episode, subscribe, rate, and review The Authentic Creative on Apple Podcasts so more people can find this work. Share this episode with a friend who needs a reminder that the sacred is already here. Connect with Siri for breathwork, Reiki, retreats, and offerings at www.sageandblushwellness.com
    and on Instagram @siribaructhornton.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
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