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Stop Waiting for the World to Make You Happy

Are you putting your happiness on hold while you wait for the world to change?

We live in a world filled with uncertainty, political division, conflict and suffering. It's easy to become so consumed by what's happening around us that we forget we're allowed to experience joy in our own lives.

But here's the thing: your happiness cannot depend on someone else's behaviour, success, failure or downfall.

In this week's episode of Beyond This…, Matilda explores why we give so much of our emotional energy to things outside our control, how our expectations of others can keep us stuck, and why building resilience doesn't mean pretending everything is okay.

Because sometimes life is bloody difficult. Good people get hurt, people disappoint us, and the world doesn't always make sense. And no amount of positive thinking is going to change that.

But we do have choices.

If the suffering in the world is weighing heavily on you, perhaps it's time to turn some of that worry into action. Volunteer, get involved in your local community, help someone who's struggling, or find a small way to make a difference.

And most importantly, stop waiting for everything to be perfect before allowing yourself to enjoy your life.

Matilda also shares a simple challenge: find one thing that brings you joy every single day, even when life feels overwhelming.

The episode finishes with a guided meditation to help you release what you cannot control, reconnect with yourself and make space for joy.

You can care deeply about the world without carrying the weight of it every moment of your life.

Because your joy isn't a betrayal of someone else's suffering. 

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Is the veil really thinner in October? As a medium, my answer might surprise you: no. The veil is thin every single day. Spirit don't come closer at Halloween, we just finally look up.

In this episode, I explain why there's no such thing as a psychic child. Children aren't specially gifted. They're simply fresh from the spirit world. It's why they name grandparents they never met, chat to imaginary friends with uncanny detail, and wave at empty corners. I'll talk about where that ability goes as we grow up, how busy lives and "it's just your imagination" teach us to stop noticing, and how we can reclaim it.

For parents and grandparents, I share gentle, practical guidance on how to respond when your little one says something you can't explain.

We finish with a guided meditation to quiet the noise of everyday life, reconnect with the open, curious child you once were, and mindfully invite your loved ones in spirit to come close.

Have a story about a child who saw something they couldn't explain? I'd love to hear it. [Add where to send stories.]

Note: Please don't listen to the meditation while driving.

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Sometimes we build the life we think everyone wants for us. We chase the job title that brings esteem, live in the suburb that says we've made it, and spend years keeping up with the Joneses. Then one day we realise we're working fifty or sixty hours a week to fund a lifestyle created for an older version of ourselves.

In this deep, heartfelt episode, Matilda draws on her background in behavioural economics and her work as an evidential medium to explore why we fall into this pattern, and how to find our way out. She unpacks the hedonic treadmill, lifestyle creep and the sunk cost trap. She shares what loved ones in spirit so often remind us about what truly matters. And she offers practical reflection questions to help you define your own version of "enough."

The episode closes with a guided meditation, The Home That Fits, where you'll set down the expectations you've been carrying and meet the version of you who is already living a peaceful life.

This one is for anyone who has quietly wondered, "Is this really the life I want?"

Please don't listen to the meditation while driving or operating machinery.

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Spiritual awakening isn't about becoming more spiritual — it's about finding out who you are underneath everyone you had to be to survive. In this solo episode, Matilda unpacks why "awakening" so often feels like grief rather than light: the sunk-cost grip of identities we've spent years building, the pain of deconstructing roles that once kept us safe, and why none of this requires religion, belief, or a spiritual label to be real. Whether you're mid-unravelling right now or just starting to notice the cracks, this episode ends with a guided meditation — You Are Safe While You're Becoming — to remind your body you're not falling apart. You're just becoming.

As always Matilda offers new predictions for the coming months towards the end of the episode

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 Due to being out of town due to a funeral Matilda is uploading an old episode with new predictions and a meditation.

This week on Beyond This…, we’re revisiting one of my favourite conversations from 2025 — my original interview with internationally renowned psychic medium John Edward.

With John returning to Australia for his October–December 2026 tour, it felt like the perfect time to bring this conversation back.

John and I talk openly about mediumship, the spirit world, what happens when we connect, and the realities of doing this work professionally. As two working mediums, it’s an honest, fascinating and at times very funny conversation about a world we both know incredibly well.

But this week's episode isn't simply a replay.

I've recorded a brand-new introduction with some new predictions — sharing a little of what I've been seeing and feeling around current events and what may be coming next.

I've also included a guided meditation focused on self-limiting beliefs.

So many of the limitations we place on ourselves don't come from what we're actually capable of. They come from the stories we've collected about who we are, what we're allowed to have, what we're good at and what is — or isn't — possible for us.

This meditation gives you an opportunity to become quiet, identify some of those beliefs and begin loosening your attachment to the ones that may be keeping you stuck.

So whether you heard my original conversation with John Edward in 2025 or you're discovering it for the first time, there is something new for you in this week's episode.

In this episode:

• New predictions from Matilda
• A guided meditation for identifying and releasing self-limiting beliefs
• My original 2025 conversation with John Edward
• Mediumship, the spirit world and life as a professional medium
• Why developing trust and discernment matters
• And plenty of conversation between two mediums who have a LOT to say

John Edward returns to Australia from October through December 2026.

And I'll be back next week with a brand-new episode of Beyond This…

As always, thank you for listening — and a huge thank you to my Patreon community, who proudly sponsor Beyond This… and make the podcast possible.

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This week, Matilda steps away from the usual format for something rawer and more personal. In the middle of a genuinely hard week — watching someone she loves near the end of their life, and her own dog struggling to recover after a procedure — she opens up about a question she's asked constantly: does this work ever make grief easier to carry, even for the medium?

Matilda unpacks the myth of the "unshakeable" medium, and why proximity to death and spirit doesn't inoculate anyone against fear or exhaustion — it often does the opposite. She talks candidly about anticipatory grief: the mourning that starts long before a death actually happens, why almost nobody prepares you for it, and how animals in a household often carry that same heaviness in their bodies without a word being said.

Midway through, Matilda is joined by fellow medium Allison DuBois for a conversation about the personal cost of this work — how she recovers after emotionally heavy sessions, and what she wishes more people understood about what it takes to hold space for others while carrying your own grief.

A more honest, unfiltered episode about what it looks like to keep showing up when you're running on empty.

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Under the House: Eclipsing Your Self-Limiting Beliefs

Have you ever wondered why some dreams always seem just out of reach — no matter how many times you visualise them or write them down? In this episode, I'm digging into the quiet, often invisible stories that shape everything we believe we're capable of and worthy of.

We'll unpack where self-limiting beliefs actually come from (often inadvertently, from the people who love us most), why fear of failure keeps so many of us stuck in a loop of never trying, and how these old beliefs quietly sabotage our ability to manifest the life we say we want. I'll share the analogy I come back to again and again — self-limiting beliefs as the foundations of a house — and walk through exactly how to notice, question, and rebuild that foundation from the ground up.

This episode also lands right alongside a partial lunar eclipse and full moon in Pisces on August 28th — a combination known for surfacing exactly the kind of buried emotional patterns and old beliefs we're talking about. I'll share what this eclipse window means for you and why it's the perfect moment to release what's no longer serving you.

I'll also get personal, sharing my own experience living with a chronic pain disorder and being blind in one eye, and how I've learned that our limits don't have to be the only thing writing our story.

This episode closes with a guided meditation designed to help you release an old belief and start reinforcing a new, bigger foundation — so come back to it when you can sit quietly and really listen.

If you've ever felt like something invisible was capping what you're allowed to have, to try, or to become — this one's for you.

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In this episode, I'm taking apart some of the biggest myths about the spirit world and mediumship — the ones that quietly create fear and keep people stuck in their grief.

We cover:

• The myth of purgatory and being "stuck" after death
• How religious conditioning shapes what we expect from the afterlife
• Why your loved ones are never angry or disappointed with you
• The truth about suicide and the afterlife (handled gently — see content note below)
• Whether mediums research their clients beforehand
• Why a big following or long waitlist doesn't prove someone is (or isn't) legitimate

And then — because you don't need a medium to feel close to someone you've lost — I walk you through a guided meditation you can return to any time, using a simple, repeatable practice to sit with your person again.

The Chair the popular exercise Matilda performs at her live events is the meditation today - to help you connect with your loved ones who have passed

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We've been sold a myth: that healing is something someone else delivers to us, and that romantic love is the cure for whatever's broken inside. In this episode, Matilda breaks down why that belief quietly destroys good relationships — and what it actually looks like when an unhealed person is loved: interrogating love instead of receiving it, testing before trusting, mistaking chaos for chemistry, performing instead of showing up, leaving before you can be left.

Drawing on patterns that show up again and again in readings — and messages from spirit about the regret people carry over guardedness, not over loving too much — this episode reframes healing not as a prerequisite for love, but as a practice you carry inside it. The episode closes with a guided meditation designed to help you sit with what it feels like to actually let love in.

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0:00 | Welcome
1:30 | The myth we've been sold
7:00 | What unhealed love actually looks like
15:00 | The spirit perspective — what comes through in readings
21:00 | The reframe — healing as practice, not prerequisite

22:-- Predictions
25:30 | Guided meditation: Receiving Love
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The people we least expect to hear from are often the ones with the most to say.

In this episode, Matilda explores why difficult and estranged relationships still come through in readings — the parent who caused harm, the friend you fell out with, the family member you'd rather not think about. Why do they show up? What do they actually want to say? And what does it mean when spirit brings forward someone you didn't ask for and maybe didn't want?

This isn't about forced forgiveness or tidy endings. It's about understanding why these connections don't just disappear — in this life or the next — and what spirit seems to want us to know about the relationships we'd rather leave behind.

As always Matilda includes new predictions and an oversight on predictions that happened last week - some of them almost immediately.

This episode ends with a deep meditation.

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