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.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Why Good Girls Burn Out - a minisode
So many of us were raised to be “good girls," to smile, to say yes, to overdeliver, to smooth things over, to be endlessly reliable. But at what cost?
In this minisode of The Authentic Creative, I open up about why good girls burn out, and why it’s not your fault. Together we explore the cultural conditioning that keeps women stuck in fawn and freeze, the hidden toll on our bodies and creativity, and the radical reframe that allows us to step out of “good” and into whole, authentic, radiant, and true.
Along the way, I weave in wisdom from Glennon Doyle’s Untamed and Brené Brown’s research on boundaries, perfectionism, and authenticity, along with stories from my own breathwork practice and retreats.
✨ Inside this episode:
- What the “good girl” archetype really means
- How people-pleasing keeps our nervous systems stuck in burnout cycles
- Why perfectionism is a trauma response, not a virtue
- How boundaries become acts of self-respect
- A powerful reflection prompt from Untamed Journal
You’ll walk away with both compassion for yourself and practical invitations for shifting into authenticity, so you can stop burning out and start living from truth.
If this conversation resonates, I’d love to hear what it stirred in you. Share your reflections with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton
And if you’re craving spaces where we practice this together, in breathwork, Reiki, and sisterhood, you are always welcome to...
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