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
Perceiving the Akashic with Helen Vonderheide
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Helen Vonderheide is a global educator specializing in transformative perspectives like the Akashic Records, Decoloniality, and Somatic Experiencing. She was my Akashic teacher, but our connection goes back much further—we first met through Buddhism, later crossed paths in Arbonne on different teams while supporting each other, and eventually deepened our bond through Reiki and Akashic trades. She has remained a very special person in my life.
Immersed in the Akashic since 2014, Helen became an elite certified teacher under Linda Howe’s lineage in 2015 and has since carved her own path, empowering others to build a personal, expansive relationship with this infinite resource. In our conversation, she illuminated the difference between psychic abilities and Akashic insight, offering profound ways to engage with the field. We also explored sacred psilocybin therapies and our shared Buddhist roots, weaving in interconnected wisdom. Her teachings, shaped by a decolonial lens, have birthed Pathways of the Heart, aligning soul and human expression in relationships, and Intergenerational Biofield Healing, a method for harmonizing the body's energy field.
www.helenvonderheide.com IG: @HelenVonderheide
The Authentic Creative is now in 65 countries, and in the top 5 % of podcasts globally! I’m so grateful for this community!
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If you’re ready to start 2025 with clarity and alignment, I’m offering a special Akashic Record reading package: ten 45-minute sessions. This is your opportunity to receive deep soul-level guidance and step into your highest potential.
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Hi Soul Sisters and Brothers! It’s a profound gift to have found you! I was born in an American Sikh yoga ashram in Boston but mainly grew up with Reiki masters, channelers and healers in Vermont. I’ve been a professional film and TV actor for over 25 years appearing in over 30 feature films, and national commercials. I’m a domestic CEO, Mountain Breathwork teacher, Akashic teacher, Reiki Master of Masters, Human Design reader, Buddhist practitioner. My husband, two boys and I live outside Portland, Oregon, where I enjoy music, dance and our two dogs!
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