The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2% 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.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Parenting + Partnership: 10 Tips for Regulating the Nervous System
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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 once.
These are simple practices I use and teach when emotions are high, time is short, and everyone’s nervous system needs support.
Because the goal isn’t perfection.
The goal is connection, regulation, and repair.
In this short episode I talk about tools that help when:
• a child is overwhelmed or anxious
• you and your partner have different stress responses
• everyone in the house is activated at the same time
• you need to calm the moment quickly and move forward
These tools help us pause escalation and return to connection.
10 Nervous System Regulation Tools
Here are the tools I walk through in this episode:
• Pause the momentum
• Slow your breathing and lengthen the exhale
• Name what is happening emotionally
• Change your physical posture to signal safety
• Validate feelings before solving the problem
• Break overwhelming moments into tiny steps
• Understand different stress responses in couples
• Use gentle touch or proximity for co-regulation
• Repair quickly when things get heated
• Remember that nervous system activation is temporary
One of the things I remind myself of constantly:
The goal is not to eliminate difficult moments.
The goal is learning how to return to connection, regulation, and repair.
Parenting and partnership are powerful places to practice nervous system awareness. And every moment of repair strengthens the relationship.
If this episode spoke to you, share it with a partner, friend, or parent who might benefit from these tools. Sometimes the smallest nervous system shifts create the biggest changes in a family.
If you’re interested in going deeper into nervous system healing and emotional regulation, I offer:
• Private transformational breathwork and reiki sessions
• The Authentic Creative podcast conversations
• Retreats and in-person experiences
You can learn more at
sageandblushwellness.com
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