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
The Dahlia Turns Inward: Rest, Rhythm, Bloom with Melody Godfred
What if turning inward is not retreat. What if it is the pause that gathers your power.
In this episode, I am in dialogue with poet and author Melody Godfred about rest, rhythm, and blooming in your own time. We move from her origin story as an Iranian Jewish immigrant family escaping the Iranian revolution to the unexpected global sisterhood sparked by the Self Love Pinky Ring. We read poetry together, talk motherhood with startling honesty, and explore how nature, moon cycles, and quiet inner moments can return us to ourselves. The message is simple and brave: trust yourself.
In this episode
• The Dahlia Turns Inward and why contraction can be preparation for your fullest bloom
• The Self Love Pinky Ring origin story and the pledge that became a worldwide sisterhood
• Phoenix Rising and the sound bath moment that brought the poem through
• Melody’s journey from creative child to attorney to poet and the reclamation of her truest self
• Motherhood as too much and not enough and how she makes space for the wild woman too
• Moon Garden, signs in Ojai, circles becoming moons, and why manifestation is surrender and release
Moon Garden: Poetry for Manifestation: https://amzn.to/3EeWyOW
Instagram: @melodygodfred
Substack: The Poetry Oracle
Work with Siri:
If you want to work with me beyond the podcast, I would love to hold you. I guide transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, in person fireside journeys, online sessions you can do from your cozy bed, private sessions, retreats, and intimate group experiences that support nervous system safety, emotional release, and a deeper return to your creative power. Explore what is coming up next at www.sageandblushwellness.com
connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton, or email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com