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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

Siri Baruc Thornton

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

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50:37

Nourishment as Healing: Reiki, Food + Joy with Chef...

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2025/06/09

In this radiant episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with the joyful, gifted, and deeply heart-centered Chef Sarah Maryatt-Worden, our Reiki Chef for the upcoming Reiki I & II Certification Retreat this July 21–23 in Camas, WA and co-host of the Goddess of Light Retreat this September 29–October 2. Sarah has over 25 years of culinary experience, and her love for nourishing others is absolutely contagious. In this conversation, we explore the magic that unfolds when cooking become...

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20:23

Your Unique Superpowers: A Reiki Attunement +...

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2025/06/09

This episode is a meditative, empowering journey into your intuitive gifts: the inner senses that awaken as you begin to align more deeply with Reiki and your own energetic frequency. Whether you're preparing to receive a Reiki attunement, have already been attuned, or are simply curious about your intuitive blueprint, this minisode offers a guided self-discovery experience through the six Clairs: 🌟 Clairvoyance – Clear Seeing 🎧 Clairaudience – Clear Hearing 💗 Clairsentience – Clear Feeling

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14:29

5 Ways Reiki Transforms Your Life + Guided Meditation

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2025/06/06

Today’s episode is a special one designed to reconnect you to the quiet power within you. I’m sharing five ways that Reiki transforms the way we live, create, love, and care for others. These teachings are drawn from decades of experience with clients, students, and my own personal healing journey. Whether you're brand new to Reiki or already attuned, I hope this episode deepens your connection to what’s possible. We explore: 🌿 Reiki for energetic boundaries 💗 Reiki as a daily ritual for

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26:53

Inside My Reiki Binder: Stories, Science & the Sacred...

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2025/06/01

In today’s heartfelt episode, I open up my Reiki binder, the one I’ve carried and added to for over two decades. Inside are teachings passed down from my mother, from my beloved teachers like Libby Barnett and Karen Krieger, and from the lived lineage that continues to unfold through every session and student. This is a deep dive into the foundational teachings of First and Second Degree Reiki: what it is, how it works, and why it’s such a powerful gift in our modern lives. I share science-ba...

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18:25

A Guided Chakra Meditation: Awaken the Energy Within...

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2025/05/30

In this sacred, 20 minute guided meditation, Siri Baruc Thornton invites you into a gentle and powerful remembering: a journey through the seven chakras designed to realign your energy, awaken your inner healer, and ground you in love. Each chakra center is explored in depth, with insight into its location, energetic influence, emotional and spiritual properties, and healing potential. You'll be guided through breath, visualization, and multiple affirmations for each center, from root to crow...

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21:55

A Meditative Journey Through Lineage: The Living...

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2025/05/29

In this sacred storytelling minisode, Siri Baruc Thornton guides you through a meditative journey into the origins and lineage of Reiki. More than a history lesson, this is an energetic transmission—best received lying down or in stillness, like a sound bath for the soul. You’ll be taken back to the mountains of Japan, where Dr. Mikao Usui received the sacred symbols through vision and devotion. You’ll walk the path through Dr. Chujiro Hayashi’s structured teachings, Hawayo Takata’s courageou...

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12:02

Minisode: Returning to the Light in Our Hands with Siri

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2025/05/27

In this solo minisode, Siri shares how Reiki first came into her life through her mother’s healing journey, and how it became a lifelong practice that continues to shape her personal and professional path. This episode covers: What Reiki is and how it worksA short history of the Usui Reiki lineageSiri’s training with Libby Barnett and her Master of Masters certificationReal stories from clients and studentsHow Reiki can support your nervous system, your relationships, your self-care, and your...

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58:56

Radiance, Resilience, + Heart-Led Healing with Akary...

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2025/05/25

In this expansive and heart-centered conversation, I dialogue with Akary Busto: emotional biohacker, HeartMath practitioner, nervous system whisperer, and human design guide, about how we can move from survival to sovereignty. Akary shares her powerful story of growing up between cultures and carrying the weight of her family as a translator, oldest daughter, and bridge between worlds. We explore what it means to regulate the nervous system, shift outdated survival patterns, and understand ou...

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54:57

From Best Friends to Boutique Hoteliers: The Creative...

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2025/05/22

Today I’m joined by two adventurous, whip-smart creatives whose friendship and flair for reinvention turned a dusty roadside motel into a pink-hued phenomenon. April Brown and Sarah Sklash are the co-founders of The June Motel and stars of Netflix’s hit series Motel Makeover. Once a public relations pro and a government operations specialist, they walked away from stable careers in 2016 to chase something wildly different: joy, beauty, and a glass of rosé at check-in. In this episode, we ex...

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53:52

Cultivating Self-Love Through Ritual with Shannon Kim

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2025/05/20

In this episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with Shannon Kim: founder of Self Love Tea, Intuitive Hypnotherapist, Certified Herbalist, and Energy Guide. Shannon shares intimately and vulnerably about her journey of self-love, including the deep healing of her relationship with her adopted father. Through subconscious healing, herbal wisdom, and energy work, she supports others in re-patterning their inner world and reconnecting with their truth. We explore the power of intentional...

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The Light Within: After-Party Reflections Bonus Panel

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2025/05/16

This is a behind-the-scenes, heart-wide-open continuation of The Light Within panel. After the official recording wrapped, our panelists stayed to reflect, celebrate, and share from the soul. What unfolded was a raw, nourishing, deeply human exchange of laughter, insight, motherhood moments, spiritual realizations, and sisterhood. ✨ In this episode, you’ll hear: Reflections on being present and taking your hands off the wheel Robyn Cohen’s brilliant download on creative flow and spiritual p...

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84:29

The Light Within: Embodying Compassionate Leadership...

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2025/05/13

This special episode features a radiant panel of heart-centered leaders sharing what it means to lead with compassion, presence, and integrity. These are women creating ripple effects through their work, families, art, and communities and their insights just might ignite something powerful in you too. Before recording, several panelists joined me for a Transformational Breathwork session infused with Reiki: clearing, aligning, and expanding our energy before this sacred dialogue. You’ll feel ...

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Minisode: Pain, Power & Permission with Rebecca...

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2025/05/09

In this intimate, impromptu episode of The Authentic Creative, we share a post-breathwork reflection with Rebecca Schlosser, a trauma-informed breathwork guide and podcast host, who graciously allowed us to record her experience immediately after "one of the most connected sessions she’s ever had." Together, we explore: Generational healing through the breathPain as both a portal and a teacherThe nuanced dance between treating pain physically and addressing it energeticallyHow facilitators ca...

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13:52

Walk as the Goddess of Light — A Guided Meditation...

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2025/05/04

Walk, breathe, remember, and return to your radiant self. Created for the women of the Goddess of Light Retreat on the Oregon Coast, this meditation is yours too—wherever you are. Whether you're walking the beach, flying home, driving through winding roads, or simply laying down in stillness, this immersive journey will bring you back to the wisdom of your own luminous being. This is a soul-soaked invitation to walk beside your inner self. To embody your leadership, not through doing but thro...

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74:34

The Art of Liberation with Amy Tangerine: Inner Child...

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2025/05/01

In this radiant episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with the magical Amy Tangerine: artist, author, YouTube creator, and heart-forward creative guide, whose joyful mission is to help us reconnect to our inner child and remember that we are all artists. Together, we explore: The intersection of Amy’s creative work and the healing journeyHow art supplies, stickers, and color can become sacred tools for transformationThe role of play in spiritual liberationThe beautiful convergence of ...

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66:39

Finding Synchronicity through Alignment with Robyn Cohen

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2025/04/26

In this episode, I have a truly magical dialogue with Robyn Cohen: actress, director, educator, and luminous creative spirit. Our conversation is an exploration of what it feels like to be fully in alignment with your craft, your body, and your life and what it takes to notice when you’re not. Robyn shares her perspective on how we can attune ourselves to the moments of synchronicity that are always trying to find us, if we’re willing to listen. We talk about how magic and mechanics intertwin...

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28:36

🌍 Earth Day After Glow: The Power of Remembering...

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2025/04/24

What happens after the formal panel ends, and the circle keeps glowing? This special bonus after party episode captures the warmth, wisdom, and raw beauty of what unfolded when the Earth Day panelists stayed on to share from the heart: unscripted, unfiltered, and unshakably real. Together, we explored what it means to return to safety, live with courage, and honor our sacred needs as alignment with nature herself. From nervous system resets to the Empress card, sound as medicine, and sacred m...

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81:23

Earth Day Panel: Return to Reverence

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2025/04/22

In this sacred and soulful Earth Day episode of The Authentic Creative, we gather in powerful sisterhood to honor the living intelligence of Earth and the Divine Feminine within us all. This is a ceremony, a remembering, and a radical act of love. Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, founder of sage + blush wellness, this special panel features spiritual leaders, healers, artists, and creatives from around the world. Together, we reflect on how reconnecting to the Earth invites us to reconnect with...

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77:16

Living One Hundred Percent Woo with Paden Hughes

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2025/04/18

In this high-vibe, joy-filled, and deeply magical episode, I dialogue with the radiant Paden Hughes, transformational coach, energy healer, bestselling author, and host of the 100% Woo Podcast. Together, we geek out on all things woo: intuition, energy, ancestral wisdom, and the sacred intersection of entrepreneurship and embodiment. Paden shares her powerful story of building a 7-figure business by the age of 30, only to hit a breaking point that led her into a profound spiritual awakening....

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48:07

Vibrating into Authenticity with Rachel Blumberg

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2025/04/14

Some conversations feel like a breath of fresh air. This one with Rachel Blumberg was exactly that. Founder and CEO of PLATEFIT, Rachel has built a powerful fitness movement centered on vibration training, but our conversation reached far beyond the physical. We explored how grief, ritual, and authenticity shape us—and what it means to live from the inside out. Rachel shares from a place of grounded truth, speaking to the courage it takes to let go of old identities and trust the unfolding of...

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