The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% 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.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Healing the Nervous System with Reiki
Anxiety. Burnout. Dysregulation. So many of us are living in constant fight-or-flight, our nervous systems fried from overgiving, overworking, and overthinking. What if healing wasn’t about pushing harder, but about slowing down and receiving?
In this luminous panel, three radiant women — Sierra, Dana, and Tange — share their journeys of healing through Reiki attunements at our retreat. Together we explore the mystical and the practical: how Reiki connects us to lineage and unconditional love, and how it rewires the nervous system toward rest, safety, and peace.
🌀 Why Reiki heals the nervous system
Modern science now confirms what ancient traditions have always known: practices like Reiki activate the parasympathetic nervous system — the “rest and digest” state that lowers stress hormones, regulates heart rate, and brings the body into balance. Studies show Reiki reduces anxiety, supports emotional regulation, and creates a measurable shift into calm.
🌟 Stories from the circle
Sierra: “I felt this armor fall away, like I was breaking free of a protective shield.”
Dana: “It was always me. Thousands of years behind me, thousands ahead. This moment was always meant to happen.”
Tange: “My nervous system was fried. I couldn’t turn it off. Reiki gave me a way to regulate again — not just for me, but for my family.”
These are not metaphors. These are lived experiences of the body, heart, and spirit remembering how to heal.
✨ What you’ll receive in this episode
• A guided grounding practice you can experience right now
• Raw and tender stories of sobriety, grief, parenting, and everyday miracles
• Proof that when we give Reiki, we also receive
• The reminder that presence is enough
• An invitation to trust the lineage that is always at your back
This is not just a conversation — it’s a transmission of love, lineage, and healing. If your nervous system longs for calm, let this be your breadcrumb.
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Reiki Practitioner Panelists:
Sierra · Agoura Hills, CA · Author of How to Attract Your Cosmic Love Partner (Amazon) · The Planet Love Times
Dana Schmit · San Luis Obispo, CA · Reiki + Sound Healing (Sound Mind) · danaschmit.com · IG @danaschmit
Tange · West Hollywood, CA · Family Culture Coach + Reiki Practitioner · IG @auntiefamilyculturecoach · @myfriendscallmetange
• “When we give Reiki, we also receive.”
• “Presence is enough. Reiki teaches us to unlearn the efforting.”
• “It was always me. This moment was always meant to happen.”
• “My nervous system was fried. Reiki gave me a way to regulate again.”
• “The lineage is behind you. You are never alone.”