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.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
The Healing Power of Safe Relationship with Mike Elliott
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What if the thing you're longing for isn't success, certainty, or control?
What if it's safety?
Today I'm in conversation with Mike Elliott, a relationship coach, breathwork facilitator, and guide for men who are longing for deeper connection, emotional presence, and more meaningful relationships.
Mike's work was deeply shaped by being separated from his biological mother at birth and adopted twice before the age of 14 months, experiences that later revealed deep patterns around abandonment, performance, and the fear of rejection. After years of pursuing external success, the collapse of his marriage became a catalyst for a profound healing journey into attachment, nervous system regulation, somatics, intimacy, and emotional embodiment.
In this conversation, Mike shares openly about adoption, addiction, a shotgun held to his chest, heartbreak, suicidal ideation, nervous system healing, and the relationships that ultimately helped him reconnect with himself and transform his life.
Together, we explore functional freeze, emotional safety, intimacy, attachment, sensitivity, and why so many people who appear successful on the outside still feel disconnected on the inside.
More than anything, this conversation is about safety.
The kind of safety that allows us to feel, connect, heal, and fully be ourselves.
It's a reminder that no matter how disconnected, numb, or alone we may feel, healing remains possible.
In this conversation, we explore:
• Why our deepest wounds often become our greatest medicine
• How trauma shapes our relationships
• Why sensitivity is a strength
• The role of safety in healing and connection
• Simple practices for creating more presence in everyday life
Favorite Quote:
"The longest journey any of us will ever take is from our head to our heart."
Resources & Links:
Mike Elliott: @mikeelliott.relating | itsmikeelliott.com | The Sacred We podcast
Song Mentioned: "In My Blood" by Shawn Mendes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Pce5yn5oOSDB6hZm8Ou2U?si=61a6111141374bd8
Connect with Me: @siribaructhornton | sageandblushwellness.com | siri@sageandblushwellness.com
If this conversation resonated with you, I offer private Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki sessions online and in person, as well as immersive retreats and Reiki Certification Retreats designed to help you reconnect with yourself, regulate your nervous system, release old patterns, and create greater safety, connection, and freedom in your life.
Learn more at sageandblushwellness.com
Keep expanding your capacity to feel good, one breath at a time.