The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
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
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Sacred Over Sacrifice: Breathwork, Boundaries, And Letting Go Of The Martyr Role
In this Sacred Over Sacrifice panel, we gathered a circle of powerful women for a transformational breathwork journey followed by a raw, honest conversation about releasing the martyr role, breaking people pleasing patterns, listening to the body, and choosing truth, softness, and self honoring over obligation. You’ll hear real breathwork shares, mystical experiences, emotional releases, boundary breakthroughs, stories of healing, and the practical tools these women are carrying into the holiday season to stay rooted, rested, and real.
Panelists:
Tasha Rose — Herbalist and CEO helping families feel better faster through plant medicine @tasharose.herbalist
Vida Delrahim — Co-founder of WeNatal transforming fertility care for both partners @vidadelrahim
Melody Godfred — Poet and author devotionally guiding us back to self love @melodygodfred
Dawn Nikole — Sound healer and wellness guide harmonizing body, mind, and spirit @dawn_nikole
Jeni Dodd — Tea specialist and educator celebrating connection through handcrafted teas @jenidoddtea
Amanda Folkestad — Realtor and home stager creating intentional, story-filled spaces @portlandpink
Katy Chen Mazzara — Money and trauma coach helping creatives release scarcity and reclaim freedom @katychenmazzara
Dr. Celeste Chiam — Pianist and spiritual educator weaving art, practice, and awakening @celeste.chiam
Krista Williams — Podcast host, guide, and teacher supporting life’s biggest transitions @itskrista
Robyn Cohen — Actor and mentor illuminating creativity as devotion and daily practice @robyncohenactingstudio
Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, founder of sage + blush wellness and the Goddess of Light retreat ecosystem @siribaructhornton
What we explore
• Breathwork shares, mystical visions, somatic release
• The body’s signals when a yes is actually a no
• Overgiving, people pleasing, burnout, and boundaries
• Receiving as a spiritual practice
• Nature as a holder when no one else is available
• Money fears, creativity, motherhood, and emotional overload
• How to move through the holidays without abandoning yourself
About Goddess of Light Retreats
Goddess of Light is a sanctuary for leaders, artists, healers, mothers, and visionaries: women who hold it all. Each retreat is a living ceremony where we return to truth, release what no longer serves, and remember that we are already radiant, powerful, and enough.
🌙 Goddess of Light Retreats — Mt. Hood Village, Oregon
Explore upcoming retreats: sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
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