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.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
RECEIVING minisode
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What Are You Ready to Receive?
What if receiving could feel as natural as giving?
In this guided minisode of The Authentic Creative, I’m inviting you to walk with the October theme inside The Authentic Creative Sanctuary: Receiving.
So many of us have become incredibly capable at caring for others, holding families, building businesses, creating, leading and making things happen. In the process, receiving support, love, care, rest, abundance or help can sometimes feel far less familiar.
In this episode, I’ll guide you through gentle breath, embodied reflection and an original poem as we explore what it means to open ourselves to receiving. Together, we’ll consider where we learned to do everything ourselves, what we may be ready to put down, and what could become possible when we allow ourselves to be supported.
You’ll leave with questions and practices you can carry into your everyday life, helping you notice where support is already available, become more aware of what you truly want and need, and practice allowing goodness to reach you.
Our central questions for October are:
What if receiving could feel as natural as giving?
Where have I learned to do everything myself?
What might become possible if I allowed myself to be supported?
What am I ready to receive?
This minisode is part of The Authentic Creative Sanctuary: A Living Archive of Women’s Wisdom, where I bring women together for Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki, embodied reflection and honest conversation. These gatherings become podcast transmissions so the wisdom shared inside the Sanctuary can continue traveling outward.
Walk this journey with us. Listen now, live with these questions in the weeks ahead, journal with them, notice what begins to shift, and then return for our October Sanctuary episode to hear what Receiving opened in the lives and hearts of the women gathered in our circle.
If this practice supports you, follow The Authentic Creative so you don’t miss the October Sanctuary conversation, share this minisode with a woman you’d love to walk alongside, and explore my Transformational Breathwork, Reiki, sound healing and women’s wellness offerings at sageandblushwellness.com.