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.
Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Goddess of Light Team Panel: Remembering Our Light
In this radiant and deeply real panel, I gather in sacred sisterhood with the luminous women of the Goddess of Light team: creatives, healers, mothers, and visionaries who embody what it means to live, lead, and create from the light within. We recorded just after a transformational breathwork infused with Reiki journey, still in the softness and vulnerability of that space. What unfolded was a conversation about surrender, self-worth, and remembering who we are beneath all the roles we play. Together we explored what it means to expand our capacity not just to feel good, but to feel everything. You’ll hear stories of burnout and rebirth, devotion and doubt, artistry and healing, the kind of realness that only emerges when women feel safe to be fully themselves.
Featuring the Goddess of Light Team
🌿 Desiree Maher — Photographer and founder of Desi Maui Photography. With fifteen years of experience, Desiree captures sacred moments of healing and transformation, preserving authentic stories of light for generations.
🎶 Mēagan Sky — Soul singer, award-winning songwriter, mother of twins, and certified Self-Love Master Practitioner & Coach. Her gospel-infused music, including her EP I’ll Be The One and song Am I Already Found, invites listeners to return to love and authenticity.
🎤 Lola Kristine — Award-winning singer-songwriter whose soulful, honest music inspires connection and healing. Through voice and piano, she channels divine frequency and reminds us that our voices are instruments of light.
🔮 Dawn Nikole — Founder of Paradigm Wellness Clinic and sound-bath practitioner. Dawn bridges energy medicine, ceremony, and holistic wellness to help others harmonize body, mind, and spirit and reconnect with the sanctuary within.
🍃 Marné Minard, MS Nutrition — Nutritionist and owner of Bastion, a Portland restaurant rooted in nourishment and education. Her food-as-medicine philosophy honors that healing can be beautiful, sensual, and sacred.
✨ Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, founder of Goddess of Light Retreats and The Authentic Creative podcast.
In This Episode We Explore
• The courage to surrender control and trust divine timing
• Expanding our capacity to feel
• Healing burnout and the “good girl” conditioning
• Creativity and self-expression as medicine
• How each woman’s relationship to her light evolves
• The power of sisterhood and co-regulation
• Remembering that softness is strength and rest is holy
About Goddess of Light Retreats
Goddess of Light is a sanctuary for leaders, artists, healers, mothers, and visionaries: women who hold it all. Each retreat is a living ceremony where we return to truth, release what no longer serves, and remember that we are already radiant, powerful, and enough.
🌙 Goddess of Light Retreats — Mt. Hood Village, Oregon
Explore upcoming retreats: sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
Connect with the Goddess Team
Desiree Maher — Desi Maui Photography
Mēagan Sky — @meagansky
Lola Kristine — @musicoflola
Dawn Nikole — Paradigm Wellness Clinic
Marné Minard — Bastion Eatwell
Siri Baruc Thornton — @siribaructhornton
Offerings & Retreats: sageandblushwellness.com