The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2% 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
Designing Your Space for the Life You Want with Olga Naiman
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In this episode, I dialogue with Olga Naiman, a designer, author, and visionary whose work lives at the intersection of psychology, embodiment, and the spaces we inhabit.
From her early life as a child refugee to becoming the voice behind spatial alchemy, Olga brings a deeply personal lens to transformation. We explore how our environments hold our patterns, reflect our inner world, and can become active participants in our healing and expansion.
This conversation moves beyond aesthetics into something much deeper: how your home can become a living extension of your nervous system, your desires, and your future self.
What we explore in this episode:
• Olga’s journey from Ukraine to the United States and how it shaped her work
• How trauma, displacement, and dissociation informed her relationship with space
• The origin of spatial alchemy and the connection between psychology, somatics, and design
• How your home reflects unconscious patterns and outdated identities
• A powerful process for change: seeing what is, dissolving what no longer fits, and seeding what is next
• Why decluttering alone is not enough and what deeper energetic release looks like
• The symbolic language of your home and how to begin working with it
• How small, intentional shifts in your space can create meaningful change in your life
• The role of altars and meaningful objects as anchors for intention and manifestation
• Real examples of transformation through working with space
What you’ll receive from this episode:
• A new lens for understanding your home as an extension of your inner world
• Practical ways to begin shifting your space right away
• Deeper awareness of how your environment impacts your nervous system
• Inspiration to create spaces that support your clarity, vitality, and expansion
Connect with Olga:
• Book: Spatial Alchemy: Design Your Home to Transform Your Life
https://www.amazon.com/Spatial-Alchemy-Design-Your-Transform/dp/1648291473
• 1:1 Session: The Roadmap
https://www.thespatialalchemy.com/the-roadmap
• Website:
https://www.thespatialalchemy.com
• Instagram:
@olganaiman
Call to Action
If this conversation opened something in you, I invite you deeper into this work.
My 3 month private Breathwork and Reiki container is a space where we work directly with your nervous system, your patterns, and your capacity to feel good in your life.
This is intimate, personalized support where what we uncover becomes embodied and integrated.
You can learn more and reach out here:
🌿 Website: www.sageandblushwellness.com
🌿 Instagram: @siribaructhornton