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.
Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.
Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Spring Equinox, Receiving, and the Art of Letting Life Meet Us
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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 through them before we open into the wider conversation.
I was standing in dialogue with an extraordinary group of women, each of us speaking from lived experience, from our bodies, from what we are actively navigating right now.
We explored what it means to come out of winter without abandoning ourselves. To trust timing. To soften the grip of responsibility. To receive instead of constantly holding everything together.
Again and again, I heard the same thread: we are women who carry so much. We lead, we nurture, we anticipate, we hold. And yet, when it comes to receiving support, love, rest, or even simple help, there can be resistance, discomfort, or a deep question underneath it all: am I allowed to receive this?
This conversation moves through breathwork integration, ancestral connection, the nervous system, and the deeply human edges of worthiness, grief, identity, and self love.
We talk about:
• Releasing responsibility that was never ours to carry
• The grief of realizing we could have softened sooner
• The discomfort of being in the body and what that reveals
• The practice of receiving help in small, everyday moments
• The shift from selflessness into self honoring
• Cycles, seasons, and trusting the intelligence of our own timing
• The balance between doing and allowing
• What unconditional love actually looks like in real life
There is laughter. There are tears. There is honesty that cuts straight through performance and lands in truth.
What becomes clear is this: spring is asking us to stop resisting who we already are, and to have the courage to receive the life that matches her.
If you are in a season of transition, expansion, or quiet becoming, this conversation will meet you there.
Incredible panelists:
Destiny Dudley Deras — private chef, sommelier, and co host of The Broad Minded Podcast @the_culinary_concierge
Murisa Harba — actress, director, and author of Acting With Energy, teaching emotional intelligence through the body @murisaharba
Monica Rodgers — guide for women reclaiming vitality, pleasure, and embodied feminine leadership
Dr Alicia Newsome — executive advisor and bestselling author supporting leaders to scale without burnout @dr.alicianewsome
TeRayzah Livingstone — intimacy and relationship coach, breathwork teacher, and facilitator of women’s transformation @terasalivingstone
Tracy Hill — creator of A Beautiful Fix and host of a top 3% globally ranked podcast @abeautifulfix
Brenda Rigney — midlife business coach helping women build aligned online businesses
Dana Schmit — intuitive sound healer and storywork coach supporting deep personal transformation @danaschmit_
Robyn Cohen — actor, coach, and founder of The Cohen Acting Studio @robyncohenactingstudio
If something in this conversation resonated, and you’re ready for deeper, more consistent support, I am currently working with a small number of women inside a 3 month private online container.
This is a structured, high touch space where we work together over time with breathwork, nervous system regulation, and real time coaching to support lasting shifts in how you live, lead, and receive. It’s not a one off experience. It’s a space for integration, for honesty, and for real change. If you feel the pull toward that kind of support, reach out to me directly and we can explore whether it’s the right fit for you.
www.sageandblushwellness.com