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
The Connection Between Courage, Confidence & Self Love
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This morning’s minisode is completely unscripted and unedited. I followed what was alive for me in the moment, and what came through was a conversation I didn’t plan but clearly needed to have with you.
It began with something simple. A note on my to do list. A message from my son. Love yourself. And it opened into something much deeper.
I explore what self love actually means beyond the phrase we hear so often. I share honestly about where it still feels challenging, even after decades of working with Reiki and spiritual practice. I talk about how love is not always a feeling we can access on demand, and how it often lives in the moments where we choose to stay with ourselves through discomfort, fear, and resistance.
This episode moves through real life examples. Parenting. Losing patience. Showing up in community. Going to the gym when it feels intimidating. Building something as an entrepreneur. All of it becomes the practice.
Self love, for me, is starting to look less like a concept and more like a willingness to face what feels hard and stay connected to myself in the process.
In this episode, I share:
• How a simple message from my son shifted my perspective on self love
• Why self love can feel abstract even after years of spiritual practice
• My personal relationship with Reiki as a practice of unconditional love
• The connection between courage, confidence, and self love
• What it looks like to love myself in moments where I feel like I’ve fallen short
• How physical challenges like working with a trainer are becoming a new pathway for growth
• The role of discomfort, fear, and resistance in building inner strength
• My experience navigating community, vulnerability, and introversion after moving
• How to relate to negative inner dialogue without identifying with it
• Why self love is a lifelong practice and possibly the reason we are here
A note from me:
I would genuinely love to hear from you. What does self love feel like in your body and in your life. When have you experienced it most clearly. You can reach out and share with me anytime.
If you are feeling called into deeper support and want a consistent space to return to your body, your breath, and your own capacity to feel good, I offer a private 3 month container where we work together through Transformational Breathwork and Reiki.
You can explore that here:
www.sageandblushwellness.com
Or connect with me on Instagram:
@siribaructhornton