The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good with Siri Baruc Thornton, ranked in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.
What if feeling good was the most powerful creative tool you have?
This podcast is a space to reclaim joy, alignment, and deep trust in yourself and the universe through healing, expression, and soulful connection.
Hosted by Reiki Master, Transformational Breathwork and Akashic Record teacher, and podcaster Siri Baruc Thornton, The Authentic Creative brings you multiple episodes each week featuring inspiring conversations with heart-led entrepreneurs, artists, authors, and healers.
You’ll also experience guided meditations, spiritual insights, and practical tools to support your emotional well-being and creative expansion.
Together, we explore the intersection of creativity and healing: how nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and soul connection can unlock your most vibrant, purpose-filled life.
Plus, tune in for powerful monthly Women’s Leadership Panels where visionary voices gather to explore embodiment, abundance, and sacred leadership in action.
Listeners in over 65 countries come here to remember: You don’t have to push to create. You get to feel good. You get to be fully yourself. And from that place, you thrive authentically!
Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.
Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Truth, Food, and Freedom: Marné Minard’s Story of Resilience and Devotion
In this episode of The Authentic Creative, Siri dialogues with Marné Minard: nutritionist, healer, and owner of Portland’s Bastion, a restaurant redefining nourishment with seasonal, nutrient-dense food free from the usual fillers and allergens.
Marné opens up about her journey from a chaotic, traumatic childhood to finding her calling in healing and nutrition. She shares how Bastion was born, how food became her way of offering care and truth to others, and what it means to let her walls fall and live from a place of resilience and devotion.
We also revisit how our collaboration began at the Goddess of Light Retreat, where Marné’s food became a soul-level part of the magic, and how that connection is blossoming into three retreats in 2026.
Learn more:
- Experience Bastion in Portland or follow on Instagram @bastion_eatwell
- Join us for the Goddess of Light Retreats—transformational, all-inclusive gatherings designed to help you feel deeply nourished and held through Reiki, breathwork, sacred ceremony, and Marné’s exquisite seasonal meals.
- March 15–18, 2026
- May 3–6, 2026 (Spring: Coming Alive)
- October 4–7, 2026 (Fall: Returning Home)
Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, healing artist, Reiki Master Teacher, and host of The Authentic Creative, these retreats are curated to expand your capacity to feel good, reconnect with your authentic energy, and return home to yourself.
For retreat details, one-on-one sessions (Breathwork + Reiki, Reiki healing), or to connect:
- Visit www.sageandblushwellness.com
- Follow Siri on Instagram @siribaructhornton