The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
The Authentic Creative is a top 2% globally ranked podcast hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton.
Every conversation is an invitation to come home to yourself.
With more than 316 episodes and listeners in 65+ countries, Siri has welcomed Emmy Award winners, New York Times bestselling authors, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, spiritual teachers, researchers, and everyday people whose stories illuminate what it means to be fully human.
Every episode begins with curiosity.
Together we explore creativity, healing, psychology, spirituality, relationships, purpose, nervous system regulation, and the beautifully imperfect human experience. These conversations invite honesty, deepen compassion, expand perspective, and remind us that healing often begins the moment we feel deeply seen.
The subtitle of this podcast is Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good.
Feeling good begins with expanding our capacity to fully experience life—with love, grief, wonder, uncertainty, creativity, gratitude, joy, and compassion. As that capacity grows, so does our ability to live authentically, create courageously, love deeply, and meet life with presence.
Alongside intimate conversations, you’ll also find guided meditations, Transformational Breathwork, Reiki teachings, and solo reflections that offer practical tools for healing, authentic living, and personal growth.
Everything I create is rooted in one intention:
Creating extraordinary spaces where people feel deeply seen, safe to tell the truth, and remember who they truly are.
Whether you’ve been listening since the very beginning or you’re pressing play for the first time, I’m honored you’re here.
Welcome to The Authentic Creative.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Coming Home to Yourself minisode
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If you've been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, or unsure of what you need in this changing season, this 10 minute guided meditation and grounding breathwork practice will help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with your body’s wisdom.
The transition from summer to fall can bring changing routines, competing responsibilities, and the challenge of finding your rhythm again. This may feel especially familiar if you are a mother, entrepreneur, or creative trying to care for the people you love while making space for your own needs, work, and inner life.
Through personal reflection, grounding breathwork, a guided meditation, and an original closing poem, I invite you to ask yourself: What am I needing? You will have space to call your energy back, listen for the answer, and identify one small way to give yourself what you need today.
When you meet yourself with care, you create more room for nervous system regulation, creativity, alignment, manifestation, flow, and synchronicities.
Created during Virgo season and the days leading toward the September new moon, this minisode offers a gentle practice for coming home to yourself, trusting your body, navigating life transitions, and creating a more grounded beginning.
This is also the theme of our first Authentic Creative Sanctuary on September 11th, Coming Home to Yourself, an intimate gathering centered around Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki, reflection, poetry, and honest conversation.
Give yourself the deepest breath you have given yourself all day, and come home.
Explore upcoming gatherings, private healing sessions, Transformational Breathwork, Reiki, and more through sage + blush wellness at https://sageandblushwellness.com