Contain Her Magic

What happens when we step off the well-worn path and begin to question what education could look like for our children?
In this episode of Contain Her Magic, I’m joined by Caroline Frances and Lili Morel, two mothers and contributors to the #1 bestselling book, Liberating Education: The Art of Learning Beyond the Well-Worn Path.
Drawing on their homeschooling journeys, we explore the challenges and rewards of choosing a different approach to education, and the courage it takes to navigate self-doubt and overwhelm while supporting children’s individual needs, including those of neurodivergent children. 
We open the door to self-regulation and the joy of learning through movement, nature, travel and the learning opportunities woven into everyday life. We also explore how our choices can help us create the life we want for our children and our families.
There is no one right way to educate a child. Every child and family is different, and this heartfelt conversation invites us to reimagine education, look beyond the familiar, discover possibilities we may never have considered, and follow a path that feels right for us and our children.
🌿Continue the Journey
📚 Get your copy of Liberating Education: The Art of Learning Beyond the Well-Worn Path
Celebrating an incredible achievement, Liberating Education reached #1 bestseller in four Amazon categories and ranked #98 in all books! 🎉
Available here:
3acres.ca — Lili’s boutique online or in Dunham, Quebec
Sovereign Acres Publishing — including merchandise
Amazon Canada
Amazon US
Meet Lili and learn more about Liberating Education at the book fair hosted by the Art School in Sutton, Quebec on Saturday, December 5th. 📕Get the details here.
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5 Minutes Just for You 👉FREE download to help you reconnect with yourself and reclaim a moment of joy.
Totally Cool Tools for Self-Regulation — An online video library of practical techniques I designed to help children, parents and educators navigate stress and support self-regulation. 🍎LEARN MORE
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🎵Soundtrack for Contain Her Magic - Return To Me by Scenic Kiss (Sonia Baillon & Mark Gibson)

What does it mean to become a keeper of sacred wisdom in a world that has lost touch with so much of its ancient knowledge? How can we reconnect with the stories, traditions and landscapes that hold the threads of our past, and bring their wisdom into the present?
In this episode of Contain Her Magic, Welsh artist, storyteller and ritualist Stella Marie Sheppard shares her passion for Welsh mythology, oral storytelling and the deep relationship between people and place.
We explore how stories can illuminate our own journeys, how creativity emerges through play and inspiration, and how we can nurture our creative fire without burning out- leaving room for a little more magic in our lives.
Together, we consider what it means to move from seeking wisdom to embodying it — and to choose consciously what we carry forward generations to come.
🍂 Continue the Journey
Discover more of Stella Marie Sheppard's work and continue exploring the stories, traditions and creative wisdom of the land.
RINWEN — Explore Stella's seasonal learning programme: https://www.stellamariehere.uk/rinwen
Website — Discover Stella's work, storytelling and offerings: https://www.stellamariehere.uk/
Instagram — Follow Stella for stories, events and updates: https://www.instagram.com/stellamariehere/
YouTube — Subscribe to her channel for more stories, spirituality and rituals from the Celtic lands: https://www.youtube.com/@stellamariehere/videos
Email — Contact Stella directly: stellamariecontent@hotmail.com
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🎧 Keep listening
If you haven't already, revisit these earlier episodes of Contain Her Magic, where some of the threads explored in this conversation first began to emerge:
Episode 13 — Feel Good Your Way: Reconnecting with What Matters MostMy first visit to Wales, teaching at the Big Retreat Festival, and discovering how a place can awaken something within us.
Episode 15 — The Space in Between: Finding Possibility in Life's ThresholdsExploring liminal spaces, mythology, folklore and the magic that can be found when we make room for wonder and the unknown.
These episodes offer a beautiful continuation of the journey into sacred land, ancient stories and the wisdom we carry forward.
📕Read the companion blog
The Stories the Land Holds: The Moon, the Stag and the Wisdom of Autumn 
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🎵Soundtrack for Contain Her Magic - Return To Me by Scenic Kiss (Sonia Baillon & Mark Gibson)

What happens when we begin to reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to silence?
In Part 2, Cat from Divine Mama Rising and I venture deeper into sensuality, pleasure, desire and the body, exploring what it can mean to reconnect with our life force and feel fully alive.
We talk about Cat’s work with yoni massage and de-armouring, and how a trauma-informed, deeply embodied approach can create space for women to reconnect with sensation, voice, consent and pleasure.
We explore desire as something much bigger than sexuality—a source of vitality, creativity, aspiration and connection to life—and how reclaiming our own desire can ripple into our relationships, families and everyday lives.
And we come back to the question at the heart of Contain Her Magic: How do we contain our magic?
For Cat, it’s about becoming the container ourselves and allowing that magic to become part of our everyday lives.
And perhaps, ultimately, it’s about giving ourselves permission to feel, to want, to be seen, and to fully inhabit the woman within.
🌿 Continue the Journey
Divine Mama Rising
Explore Cat's work with the shadow self women's circles, devotion and reclamation practices including her Women's Shadow Prompt Journal.
🌐 Website: https://www.divinemamarising.com
💮Yoni Massage: https://www.divinemamarising.com/yonimassage
🐈‍⬛Follow Cat on Instagram: @divinemamarising
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This is Part 2 of our conversation. If you haven't already, start with Part 1, where Cat and I explore shadow work, sisterhood, tantric sensuality and the first steps of reclaiming of ourselves that may have gone quiet.
🎵And for some musical inspiration listen to Desire, by Scenic Kiss.
📕Read the companion blog
Reclaim the Woman Within: Reconnecting with Your Body, Sensation & Desire
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Do you feel that motherhood or the roles you play are slowly eclipsing the woman within?
In Part 1, Cat from Divine Mama Rising shares her personal journey of reclaiming the woman within—from becoming immersed in motherhood and losing touch with herself, to rediscovering her identity, desires and sense of aliveness.
We dive into shadow work, the power of women's circles and sisterhood, exploring what happens when we bring what’s been suppressed into awareness and give ourselves permission to feel, express and live more fully.
And then we venture into the more taboo territory of Tantra, sensuality and pleasure, discovering Cat’s beautiful concept of empleasurement—the meeting point of empowerment and pleasure.
And this is only Part 1. We go deeper in Part 2
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Divine Mama Rising
Explore Cat's work with the shadow self women's circles, devotion and reclamation practices including her Women's Shadow Prompt Journal.
🌐 Website: https://www.divinemamarising.com/yonimassage
🐈‍⬛Follow Cat on Instagram: @divinemamarising
📕References
Book by Richard Schwartz's - No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model.
✨️ Five Minutes Just for You 👉FREE DOWNLOAD!
If this conversation has reminded you that you could use a little more time and space for yourself, try my free Five Minutes Just for You — Feel Better, Starting Now practice. A simple five-minute practice to reconnect with yourself and reclaim a little joy, whenever you need it.
🎧  Keep listening
This is Part 1 of our conversation. In Part 2, we go deeper into sensuality, pleasure, desire, relationships and Cat's work with yoni massage.
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What if the in-between spaces we often overlook are actually full of possibility?
As Sonia prepares for a summer of travel, reflection, and new experiences, she finds herself living in a liminal space—a threshold between what has been and what is yet to come.
In this personal solo episode, she explores the significance of these "spaces in between" through the lenses of psychology, meditation, mythology, folklore, art, nature, philosophy and science, uncovering a fascinating thread: throughout history, many traditions have recognised that these unseen spaces hold profound significance.
So what does that mean for us?
Perhaps our greatest freedom, creativity and transformation don't happen when we've reached the destination—but while we're learning to trust the space in between.
The episode concludes with a gentle guided meditation, inviting you to pause, embrace uncertainty, and experience the space in between for yourself.
🌿Continue the Journey
✨ Free Guided Practice – Five Minutes Just for You
A simple, calming practice to help you make space for whenever life feels busy or overwhelming.
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🎧 Referenced Episodes
Episode 2: The Wisdom of the Crone
Episode 4: The Truth About Witchcraft 
Episode 12: Respell Your Reality with Lisa Lister 
Episode 14: Could You Be a Medium?
📕Read the companion blog
The Mythic Journey: Travel, Wonder & Self-Discovery
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Could you be a medium? And if so, what does that actually mean?
In this fascinating conversation, Sonia sits down with psychic medium, spiritual mentor, and founder of the Consciousness Academy, Ceejay Amanda, to explore mediumship, intuition, soul purpose, and the deeper journey of learning to know and trust yourself.
Together, they unpack the differences between intuition, psychic ability, and mediumship, while exploring why spiritual connection is about far more than receiving messages from the unseen world. Inspired by her personal journey, Ceejay shares her perspective on discernment and understanding your own unique energetics as the foundation for developing your sixth sense and living in deep alignment with your soul.
This episode moves beyond the question of whether you have intuitive or paranormal gifts and into a richer conversation about soul truth, self-trust, and sovereignty. Along the way, Sonia and Ceejay explore ways we might receive messages from and connect with Spirit, guides, ancestors, and loved ones who have passed, as well as the role of fate, free will, and personal choice in shaping our lives.
Whether you're deeply spiritual, intuitively curious, skeptical but open-minded, or simply seeking a deeper connection with yourself, this conversation invites you to consider what becomes possible when you are open yet grounded.
The episode concludes with a short guided practice to help you tune into your own inner knowing.
🌿Continue the Journey
Connect with Ceejay Amanda
Ceejay Amanda is a Psychic Medium, Spiritual Mentor, and founder of the Consciousness Academy. Through her teachings, private sessions, mentorship, and development programs, she helps people gain greater clarity, confidence, and understanding of their connection with the unseen world.
The Consciousness Academy is the perfect place to begin, offering an ever-expanding library of courses, resources, and live guidance for those looking to deepen their understanding of mediumship, intuition, consciousness, energetics, and Spirit communication.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceejay.amanda/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ceejayamanda
Consciousness Academy: https://ceejayamanda.com/consciousness-academy
✨Reconnect with Your Inner Wisdom 
If today's conversation resonated with you, explore Sonia's From Stuck to Clear Mind-Body Coaching Experience.
Through embodiment practices, self-inquiry, and mind-body coaching tools, you'll learn how to move beyond mental overwhelm, reconnect with yourself, and access greater clarity, confidence, and trust in your own path.
🌟Learn more
Free Resource: 5 Minutes Just for You
Looking for a simple way to reconnect with yourself in the middle of a busy day?
Download 5 Minutes Just for You – Feel Better, Starting Now, a free guided practice designed to help you pause, reset, and reconnect with your own inner wisdom.
Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or simply in need of a moment for yourself, this gentle practice offers a simple way to return to calm, clarity, and presence.
👉Download your free audio practice HERE.
📕Read the companion blog
The Sacred Space Where Fate Meets Free Will
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🎵Soundtrack for Contain Her Magic - Return To Me by Scenic Kiss (Sonia Baillon & Mark Gibson)

What's your way to feel good?
That question sits at the heart of The Big Retreat Festival in Wales, where Sonia recently experienced a magical weekend of vibrant music, movement, community and connection with self and nature.
She arrived with the intention of teaching Sacred Flow yoga and her Contain Her Magic workshop, but returned with stories from people rediscovering parts of themselves they thought they'd lost.
Join Sonia as she explores the festival, the soul-stirring Welsh coastline, and the conversations that sparked a deeper reflection on what it means to feel truly alive, honour our stories and remember what matters most.
What if the things that make us feel good aren't just helping us relax, recharge, or escape? What if they're helping us reconnect with something deeper?
Part travel story, part personal reflection, this episode is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and explore the role that joy, nature, and belonging play in helping us find our way back to ourselves.
🌿Continue the Journey
✨ Contain Her Magic ExperienceA signature workshop and yoga journey for festivals, retreats, and events where women honour their story and rekindle their creative fire—without burning out. This is a space to remember your magic.
Contain Her Magic Experience: Mind-Body Workshop & Yoga Journey
✨ Slow Flow YogaA 3-month online yoga journey featuring an on-demand library of nourishing practices designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and cultivate greater presence, wellbeing, and ease.
Learn more here: Yoga Classes
✨ 21-Day Starter Challenge for Embodied JoySimple daily mind-body practices to help you create more joy, connection, and self-care in just a few minutes a day.
21-Day Starter Challenge 4 Embodied Joy
📕Read the companion blog
A Return to Light: A Summer Solstice Invitation to Reconnect with what Matters Most
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🎵Soundtrack for Contain Her Magic - Return To Me by Scenic Kiss (Sonia Baillon & Mark Gibson)

In this rich, soulful and creatively playful conversation, Sonia sits down with Lisa Lister — author of Witch, Self-Sorcery, Venus, and her newest book Respell Your Reality — for an exploration of creativity, devotion, embodiment, rhythm, and the art of holding your magic.
Together, they dive into the Women of the Wild Rose lineage, cyclical living, the body as a creative vessel, feminine self-creation, and the relationship between imagination, discipline, and devotion. They also explore the underworld journey of transformation, grief, rebirth, and what it truly means to stay with the art long enough for it to become real.
This episode is an invitation to remember your magic, reconnect with your creative fire, and reimagine the story you’re living.
✨ Continue the Journey
Get your copy of Respell Your Reality!
🌹Connect with Lisa Lister:
• Website: Lisa Lister• Instagram: @sassylisalister• Substack: Lisa Lister on Substack• Lisa’s new immersive writing experience: Write Yourself In
✨ Sonia’s offerings, workshops, and upcoming events:
🌿 Join Sonia at The Big Retreat Festival in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where she’ll be offering her signature Contain Her Magic mind-body coaching experience and Sacred Flow yoga classes
💖 Explore Five Minutes Just For You -FREE audio download -Guided relaxation practice to put the noise on hold and call in your joy.
📕Read the companion blog
Re-ignite Your Creative Fire Without Burning Out
💫 Stay Connected
If this resonated, send it to a woman who might need this conversation… and the healing it can open.
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💬Contact Sonia: containhermagic@gmail.com
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Have you ever felt that the patterns in your life — the ones you can’t quite explain — might be pointing to a story once forgotten, now ready to be brought to light?
In this episode of Contain Her Magic, Sonia is joined by hypnosis practitioner Julianne Thon, whose work was shaped by a deeply personal loss — the passing of her son after years of navigating an unexplained neurological condition. This experience opened the door to a new understanding of healing, presence, and the soul’s journey.
Through introspective hypnosis, Julianne shares how past experiences — from this lifetime, our lineage, or beyond — can leave imprints on the body and subconscious, showing up as patterns, sensations, illnesses or unexplained fears.
The conversation expands into the idea of polydimensional awareness, inviting us to consider that memory, identity, and time may not be as linear as we think.
At its core, this episode is an invitation to trust the wisdom of your soul — and to notice how it speaks to you through your body, your experiences, and your inner knowing— guiding you toward greater clarity, healing, and wholeness.
🌙 Continue the Journey
If something in this conversation resonated, here are a few ways to explore a little deeper:
✨ With Julianne Thon
🌐 https://www.juliannethon.com🎧 Souls on Tap podcast
Discover more about introspective hypnosis and Julianne’s approach to healing, remembrance, and the soul’s journey.
🌿 Explore with Sonia
If you feel called to continue this work in your own way:
✨ 5 Minutes Just for YouA short, guided practice to pause, reconnect, and begin listening to what your body already knows.🎧 Free audio download 
✨ Online Yoga Nidra WorkshopA deeper space to rest, restore, and access expanded states of awareness.🌙 Learn more
📕Read the companion blog
What the Soul Remembers & the Body Knows
💫 Stay Connected
If this resonated, send it to a woman who might need this conversation… and the healing it can open.
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💬Contact Sonia: containhermagic@gmail.com
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🎵Soundtrack for Contain Her Magic - Return To Me by Scenic Kiss (Sonia Baillon & Mark Gibson)

In this episode of Contain Her Magic, Sonia is joined by Dr. Karen Lamb and Dr. Aliza Cicerone, naturopathic doctors and hosts of the Messy Midlife podcast, for a grounded and honest conversation about midlife and menopause.
Together, they explore what’s actually happening in the body during perimenopause, the wide range of symptoms women may experience, and why this transition often feels so non-linear and unpredictable.
The conversation also opens into something deeper—how this phase can shift identity, reshape boundaries, and invite a more authentic way of living.
This is a conversation about learning to hold the complexity of this time without collapsing… and discovering that within the mess, there may be something quietly magical—an invitation to return to yourself and remember who you are.
✨ Continue the Journey
Continue the conversation with Dr. Karen Lamb & Dr. Aliza Cicerone on the Messy Midlife podcast, and connect with them on social media for ongoing insight and support.
🎙️Podcast Links:
Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6gq84HyZA1QM9PTs1EY1yo
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messy-midlife/id1852048250
Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@MessyMidlifePodcast
🤍Socials:
IG:  https://www.instagram.com/messymidlifepodcast/?hl=en
Tiktok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@messymidlifepodcast
🌿 Curious about sensitivity? Explore the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) quiz mentioned in this episode: https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/
🌹 Work with Sonia
⏳ Five Minutes Just for You — a short guided practice to help you pause, listen, and reconnect - 👉FREE audio download
📍 Join me in person for my upcoming workshops: Contain Her Magic - Mind-Body Coaching Experience
The Well Studio, Knowlton, Quebec - April 25th
The Big Retreat Festival, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK - May 24th
📕Read the companion blog
The Messy Before the Magic: Reclaiming Yourself in Midlife & Menopause
💫 Stay Connected
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💬Contact Sonia: containhermagic@gmail.com
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🎵Soundtrack for Contain Her Magic - Return To Me by Scenic Kiss (Sonia Baillon & Mark Gibson)
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