This was a life-changing gathering and more than just a panel. Especially this time. I played with surrendering the structure and let it flow.

We began with a powerful hour of Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki. In that space, masks came off. Roles fell away. Women who are used to holding so much for others let themselves be held. The rawness of the shares that followed set the tone for everything. One participant said through tears, “I realized I’ve been living as a role, not as myself. For the first time in years, I felt the real me breathe.”

From there, we circled in conversation: resilience coaches, actors, healers, artists, comedians, spiritual mentors, and mothers, exploring together how we expand our capacity to feel in a world that so often rewards us for silencing ourselves.

The vulnerability was palpable. Stories of recovery, laughter, ancestral healing, nourishment, and nervous system wisdom flowed like medicine. Each voice cracked something open. Together we remembered that sensitivity is not weakness, that joy is not frivolous, and that standing firm in our truth without guilt is the most sacred gift we can give ourselves and others.

Panelists:
Sarah Tacy (@sarahtacy) • Marné Minard (@bastion_eatwell @marneminard) • Tosca Fasso (@itstoscafasso) • Julia Thornton (@jthornton444) • Robyn Cohen (@robyncohenactingstudio) • Dana Hunter Fradella (@girls.who.recover) • Ellen W.B. (@kaleidoscopereflecting) • Sohm Kapila (@sohmkapila) • Jackie Dragone (@iamjackiedragone)

This episode will invite you to:

• Reclaim sensitivity as a strength and a compass.
• Drop the masks of perfection, “good girl,” or self-sacrifice, and feel what’s really there.
• Explore how resilience, nervous system wisdom, and creative practices help us hold more joy and aliveness.
• See how laughter, art, and storytelling connect us across differences.
• Nourish your body and spirit so you no longer burn out from over-giving.
• Redefine success beyond tradition, guilt, or “shoulds.”

The result was extraordinary. We left not only more connected to each other, but more connected to ourselves, rooted in the knowing that to feel deeply is to live fully. This conversation is raw, vulnerable, and alive. May it open something true in you, too.

✨ Stay Connected with Me
I’m Siri Baruc Thornton, Reiki Master Teacher, breathwork facilitator, retreat curator, and host of The Authentic Creative. If you’re ready to expand your capacity to feel good and live in your truth, here are ways we can connect:
🌿 Work with me 1:1 or in group breathwork/Reiki: www.sageandblushwellness.com
🌿 Join an upcoming Goddess of Light Retreat (Mt. Hood, OR): March 15–18, May 3–6, Oct 4–7, 2026: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
🌿 Follow my journey + inspiration @siribaructhornton
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There are moments in life when everything stops. When time slows, the air shifts, and you realize you’re standing inside a dream you once barely dared to imagine.

For Ellie Banke, that moment came in London, when Ed Sheeran flew her over to record with him in a café and later sing again at a U2 afterparty in the green room of his pub. After her performance, The Edge from U2 quietly held her hand, breathed with her, and helped her ground back into presence.

This episode is about those kinds of moments, the miraculous ones. The ones that remind us that courage, honesty, and vulnerability really can open doors we didn’t even know how to dream.

Ellie is an artist who creates from pure truth. Her music is raw, soulful, and brave. She’s open about living with anxiety and OCD, about perfectionism and fear, and about how she chooses again and again to anchor in presence, kindness, and confidence instead.

In this conversation, we explore:

✨ The story of her viral “Dive” cover that led to singing with Ed Sheeran in London

✨ The grounding moment she shared with The Edge after her performance at Ed Sheeran’s pub

✨ How she transforms anxiety into art and fear into freedom

✨ Her practice for expanding the capacity to feel good: placing hands on her heart, breathing deeply, and letting the goodness land in her body

✨ Why kindness is the bridge between rage, justice, and change

✨ What it means to write and perform from a place of transparency, embodiment, and love

Ellie reminds us that moments that change everything aren’t reserved for the lucky few. They arrive for those who stay honest, keep showing up, and dare to say “yes” when the universe asks.

Find Ellie Banke:
Spotify, Instagram, TikTok → search Ellie Banke

✨ Stay Connected with Me
I’m Siri Baruc Thornton, Reiki Master Teacher, breathwork facilitator, retreat curator, and host of The Authentic Creative. If you’re ready to expand your capacity to feel good and live in your truth, here are ways we can connect:
🌿 Work with me 1:1 or in group breathwork/Reiki: www.sageandblushwellness.com
🌿 Join an upcoming Goddess of Light Retreat (Mt. Hood, OR): March 15–18, May 3–6, Oct 4–7, 2026: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
🌿 Follow my journey + inspiration @siribaructhornton
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We are in that threshold moment, shifting from the ease of summer into the momentum of fall. For many of us, this feels like the real start of the year: back-to-school energy, new projects, busy calendars, and plans that already stretch into winter.

In this episode of The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good, I share candidly about our family’s recent three weeks in England, the head colds Jake and I picked up after the long flight home, and how I have been in recovery mode, slowing down, resting, and recalibrating. And yet, alongside the fatigue, I feel the bubbling excitement of what is ahead, my September 6 birthday, new retreats, and creative projects ready to take root.

If your nervous system is in overload from transitioning between seasons, parenting, caregiving, household tasks, or entrepreneurial goals, this conversation is for you. I offer ten authentic, practical tips to help you move from summer recovery into fall renewal without burnout, with more grounding, and with space to channel your excitement into what matters most.

We will talk about:
• How to take inventory of your energy before pushing forward
• Simple ways to regulate your nervous system in just a few minutes a day
• Why September does not need a “perfect” routine—just a nourishing one
• Carrying the ease of summer into your fall rhythm
• Building in buffers and margins for gentler transitions
• Clarifying your top three priorities so you do not drown in demands
• Using your excitement as fuel without scattering your energy
• Returning to the basics: sleep, food, hydration, movement
• Expanding your capacity to feel, the hard and the joyful
• Living one breath, one day at a time, so your creativity flows with steadiness

This is your reminder that you do not need to do everything at once. You can breathe, choose, and create in rhythm with your body and spirit.

Share this episode with a friend who might need a softer entry into the season. Together, we can keep expanding our capacity to feel good, one breath at a time.

Resources + Links:

• Learn more & join the upcoming Goddess of Light Retreats (March, May, October 2026)
• Connect with me on Instagram: @siribaructhornton
• Share this episode with a friend who’s ready to remember her own light.

The Authentic Creative is a space to reclaim joy, alignment, and deep trust in yourself and the universe through healing, expression, and soulful connection.

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In this intimate solo episode of The Authentic Creative, I share a very personal moment of transition: my boys starting 5th and 7th grade today, my return from three soul-nourishing weeks in England, and the energy of fresh beginnings that’s alive in my own life and work.

I invite you into the heart of the Goddess of Light retreats: sacred, spacious circles where women who hold so much finally get to be held. You’ll hear why I created them, what makes them different, and how they offer a powerful space to soften, receive, and remember who you truly are.

And together, we’ll drop into a guided breathwork meditation: a short, gentle practice to help you release what you’ve been carrying and receive the nourishment your body and spirit are craving.

In this episode, you’ll experience:

• A behind-the-scenes glimpse into my life and family transitions
• Reflections from three weeks in England and what they reminded me about soul nourishment
• An intimate invitation into the Goddess of Light retreats in Mt. Hood Village, Oregon
• A guided breathwork meditation for receiving and releasing

If you’ve been longing for a space that feels like coming home to yourself, this episode is your reminder that the time is now.

Resources + Links:

• Learn more & join the upcoming Goddess of Light Retreats (March, May, October 2026)
• Connect with me on Instagram: @siribaructhornton
• Share this episode with a friend who’s ready to remember her own light.

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What do you do when life looks perfect on paper but feels empty inside?
This week on The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with Tracy Hill, Fortune 500 exec turned host of A Beautiful Fix, a podcast ranked in the top 5% globally. Tracy shares how burnout pushed her to walk away from corporate life and step into alignment with her true purpose.
We talk about:
✨ The power of showing up as your future self
✨ Why sensitivity is a superpower
✨ Human Design as a map back to yourself
✨ Micro-shifts that create real change
✨ How sisterhood, beauty, and gratitude bring us home
Tracy’s story is a reminder that the answers we’re searching for are already within us.

Founder of A Beautiful Fix 

Host of A Beautiful Fix Podcast  

Instagram & Facebook: @abeautifulfix

Free guide: Finding Your Beautiful Fix—Simple Shifts to Rediscovering Your Inner Power

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Go deeper with a 1:1 session – Book a Discover You 60-minute Human Design session Use code SIRI at checkout to receive a free 17-page customized Human Design report ($33 value).

Join Siri for the Goddess of Light Retreats—transformational, all-inclusive gatherings designed to help you feel deeply nourished and held through Reiki, breathwork, sacred ceremony, and Marné’s exquisite seasonal meals.
March 15–18, 2026
May 3–6, 2026 
October 4–7, 2026 
Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, healing artist, Reiki Master Teacher, and host of The Authentic Creative, these retreats are curated to expand your capacity to feel good, reconnect with your authentic energy, and return home to yourself. Register here now: 

For retreat details, one-on-one sessions (Breathwork + Reiki, Reiki healing), or to connect: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat

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In this soul-soaked, laughter-laced after party to the July Rewrite & Rise panel, our guests keep the truth flowing. What begins as a casual check-out becomes a sacred afterglow, where hearts open wider, tears are shared freely, and wisdom deepens into revelation.

We talk about:
✨ The wild honesty required to write and re-write our stories
✨ The courage to reclaim performance, play, and artistic voice
✨ Motherhood, grief, and the second chakra of birth and creation
✨ The soul’s journey as the true context for our healing
✨ Letting go of shame and remembering the universe holds it all
✨ Why community is the antidote to self-doubt

With spontaneous reflections from:

🌿 Michelle Rios – speaker, author, podcast host (@michelleriosofficial)
🌿 Ana Paula Markel – doula, educator, and birth mentor (@apmarkel)
🌿 Karaleigh Garrison – singer, speaker, and liberation guide (@karaleigh.garrison)
🌿 Sarah Rose – authentic brand voice coach + writer (@sarah.rose.writes)
🌿 Amanda Malarkey – permaculture guide and nature mystic (@amanda.fern.malarkey)
🌿 Robyn Cohen – actress, director, and creative mentor (@robyncohenactingstudio)
🌿 Joya Sosnowski – sound alchemist, grief guide, and frequency healer (@vibologie)
🌿 Siri Baruc Thornton – host of The Authentic Creative, retreat leader, Reiki teacher (@siribaructhornton)

With humor, reverence, and tears, this circle reminds us that we are all mid-creation, always becoming. There’s no final draft, just a deepening. And when we share the truth of our process, we rise together.

🎙️ Subscribe to The Authentic Creative and share this sacred space with the dreamers, writers, mothers, and artists in your life.

📩 For more on Goddess of Light retreats in Mt. Hood, Oregon: [email protected]

Register for any of our 2026 Goddess of Light Retreats here now.

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In this episode of The Authentic Creative, Siri dialogues with Marné Minard: nutritionist, healer, and owner of Portland’s Bastion, a restaurant redefining nourishment with seasonal, nutrient-dense food free from the usual fillers and allergens.

Marné opens up about her journey from a chaotic, traumatic childhood to finding her calling in healing and nutrition. She shares how Bastion was born, how food became her way of offering care and truth to others, and what it means to let her walls fall and live from a place of resilience and devotion.

We also revisit how our collaboration began at the Goddess of Light Retreat, where Marné’s food became a soul-level part of the magic, and how that connection is blossoming into three retreats in 2026.

Learn more:

• Experience Bastion in Portland or follow on Instagram @bastion_eatwell
• Join us for the Goddess of Light Retreats—transformational, all-inclusive gatherings designed to help you feel deeply nourished and held through Reiki, breathwork, sacred ceremony, and Marné’s exquisite seasonal meals.
  • March 15–18, 2026
  • May 3–6, 2026 (Spring: Coming Alive)
  • October 4–7, 2026 (Fall: Returning Home)

Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, healing artist, Reiki Master Teacher, and host of The Authentic Creative, these retreats are curated to expand your capacity to feel good, reconnect with your authentic energy, and return home to yourself. Register here now.

For retreat details, one-on-one sessions (Breathwork + Reiki, Reiki healing), or to connect:

• Visit www.sageandblushwellness.com
• Follow Siri on Instagram @siribaructhornton

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In this radiant, soul-nourishing afterparty conversation, we gather in sisterhood to reflect on the wisdom, healing, and heartfelt moments sparked by the Radiance and Renewal panel. What unfolds is a tender, intimate circle, equal parts celebration and sacred witnessing, where we speak about the courage it takes to redefine ourselves, the masks we wear without knowing, and the magic that begins when we give ourselves permission to explore, receive, and rest.

From Claudia’s poetic reminder to look for joy like red cars on the road, to profound shares about identity loss, trauma unlearning, and the healing power of horses, this gathering is a beautiful continuation of our collective remembering. You’ll hear about motherhood, masking, authenticity, the role of boundaries, and the permission to evolve, because who we were yesterday does not define who we are becoming.

🐴 And yes, horses may come up more than once as medicine, metaphor, and mirror. 💫

🧡 Topics We Touched On:

• The vibration of authenticity and its power to heal
• Joy as a choice and practice (hello, red cars!)
• Letting go of roles and re-learning who we are without them
• Permission to evolve and redefine identity
• The beauty of discomfort and how it signals growth
• The healing, intuitive power of animals—especially horses
• The reminder that we’re not meant to do this alone
• Creating boundaries from love, not fear

📝 Favorite Quotes & Reflections:

“Authenticity vibrates 400 times higher than the frequency of love.”
“You don’t have to be who you were yesterday.”
“Sometimes we choose the familiar hell over the unfamiliar heaven.”
“Joy is everywhere. We just have to look for it.”
“Expansion is discovery. It’s curiosity without judgment.”

Whether you're standing at the edge of your own becoming, resting between chapters, or leaping into something new, may this circle remind you: you are worthy, you are held, and you are never alone in your evolution.

🌞 Featuring:
@iamnicholelee @annreedandco @v.a.l_coaching @katychenmazzara @rachaelblumbergchiprut @platefit @claudia_noriega_bernstein @uhkarebreathwork @beachvibesdoc @abeautifulfix @catcaldwellmyers 

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Reconnect with your authentic energy through 1:1 sessions (Breathwork + Reiki, Akashic Readings, and Reiki Healing), intimate retreats, and custom-curated gatherings.

🌀 Upcoming Retreats
• Goddess of Light 2026:
• March 15–18 (Spring: Coming Alive)
• May 3–6 (Spring: Coming Alive)
• Oct 4–7 (Fall: Returning Home)
• Private Custom Retreat (Nov 7–10, 2025 – Full)
• Curate a Retreat for your circle or community

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Welcome back to The Authentic Creative. In this special panel episode, “Rewrite & Rise,” we explore the transformative power of rewriting our stories to rise into alignment, joy, voice, and soul.

Host Siri Baruc Thornton opens with a breathwork-infused circle and invites a circle of powerful women leaders: authors, healers, creatives, doctors, doulas, coaches, and performers, to share how they’ve each rewritten their own story and reclaimed their wholeness.

We explore:
✨ Releasing inherited belief systems
✨ Embodying worth beyond achievement
✨ Trusting the spark of “something more”
✨ Honoring the wisdom of the body
✨ Giving birth to new identity through challenge
✨ Finding healing in nature, sound, community, and voice

Featured Panelists:

• Bridget Simmons – on BS (belief systems) and mindset as a portal to aligned success @bridgettesimmonds
• Michelle Rios – on reclaiming worth as a birthright, not something earned @Michelleriosofficial
• Jessica Dawson – on bridging science and spirit to help women in their “becoming” @thecoachjd
• Ana Paula Markel – on birth as a metaphor for all life transitions @apmarkel
• Karaleigh Garrison – on vocal liberation, motherhood, and releasing shame @karaleigh.garrison
• Sarah Rose – on rewriting your brand voice with authenticity and boundaries @Sarah.rose.writes
• Dr. Natasha Kassam – on healing burnout and reclaiming vitality through the body @drnatashakassam
• Amanda Malarkey – on nature and permaculture as mirrors of transformation @Amanda.fern.malarkey
• Robyn Cohen – on the power of being seen, vulnerability, and live performance @robyncohenactingstudio
• Joya Sosnowski – on soul frequency, sound alchemy, and mystical grief @vibologie

We close with a soul-stirring original poem, Rise Her Name, honoring the women, their medicine, and the collective journey we are all on.

This episode is an invitation to listen deeply, breathe fully, and rise into your most radiant truth.

🌿 To learn more about the 2026 Goddess of Light retreats in Mt. Hood, Oregon, email Siri at: [email protected]

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In this expansive and grounding conversation, I dialogue with nervous system specialist and somatic guide Sarah Tacy, whose work helps high-achieving visionaries move from survival mode into embodied sovereignty.

We explore how urgency culture disconnects us from our bodies, and how learning to pause, feel, and choose can bring us back to self-trust, presence, and liberation. Sarah shares her own powerful healing journey from chronic pain and performance-driven burnout into deep regulation, resourcing, and somatic wisdom.

You’ll hear how slowing down changes everything, from your nervous system to your creativity to your relationships, and why our bodies are not the obstacle, but the oracle.

Whether you’re navigating stress, healing ancestral patterns, or simply longing to feel more grounded and spacious, this episode is a breath of fresh air.

✨ In this episode, we explore:

• Slowing down as a nervous system tool and a radical act
• The difference between co-regulation and self-soothing
• What it really means to “opt out of urgency”
• Sarah’s healing journey and initiation on the island of Maui
• Resourcing without needing more money or time
• Breaking ancestral cycles and honoring emotional waves
• How to build capacity for the unknown
• The feminine voice, healthy expression, and embodied liberation

🌿 Connect with Sarah Tacy:
Website: www.sarahtacy.com
Instagram: @sarahtacyt
Podcast: Threshold Moments
Free Support Series: 21 Days of Support
Upcoming Free Workshop: Opting Out of Urgency (September 2025)

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Ready to deepen your healing, expand your capacity to feel good, and reconnect with your authentic creative energy?

✨ Book a 1:1 Session – Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki, Akashic Record Readings, and Reiki Healing
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🌀 2025
• Private Custom Retreat | November 7–10 (full)

🌿 2026 Goddess of Light Retreats: Register here.
• March 15–18 – Spring: Coming Alive
• May 3–6 – Spring: Coming Alive
• October 4–7 – Fall: Returning Home

✨ Curate a Private Retreat – Want to co-create a retreat for your circle or community? Let’s design something unforgettable together.

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