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The votes are in, the counting goes on, and many of us are stuck in the waiting room. We’re refreshing our phones, bracing for news, and feeling a kind of tired that a nap won’t fix.

This week on Beyond This, Matilda talks about why waiting is so hard on us and where our energy really goes when we can’t control what happens next. Whichever way the results land, your ballot isn’t the only vote you get. Every day you cast votes with your attention, your words, your mood and how you treat the people in front of you, and no one can recount or overturn those.

In this episode:

• The difference between being tired and being depleted, and why checking the news constantly is like opening the oven to check the cake
• Why staying centred when life goes your way is “just good weather”, and how to come back to centre when it doesn’t
• Simple practices for getting through a stressful week
• What years of connecting with spirit have shown Matilda about what really lasts (hint: spirit has never once given her an election result)
• Casting Your Vote, a guided meditation to call your scattered energy home and choose the energy you’ll bring to your day

Whatever’s going on in the world, you still get to choose who you are in the middle of it.

Next week: something new to help you come back to centre every day. Make sure you’re subscribed.

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Beyond This… with Medium Matilda

What if the very thing you've been trying to avoid is actually one of your greatest strengths?

We spend so much of our lives wanting answers, certainty and reassurance that everything is going to work out exactly as we planned. We want to know what's coming next, whether we're making the right decisions and whether we're going to be okay.

But what if our constant need to know is actually holding us back?

In this week's episode of Beyond This…, Matilda explores why uncertainty makes us so uncomfortable, how our brains are wired to seek control, and why learning to sit with the unknown can be one of the most powerful things we ever do.

Drawing on behavioural psychology, intuition and more than two decades of experience as a medium, Matilda discusses the difference between fear and intuition, the illusion of control, and how we can stop treating the unknown as something to be frightened of.

Because the future doesn't just hold the things we're worried about. It also holds opportunities, experiences, relationships and possibilities we haven't even imagined yet.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why the human brain finds uncertainty so uncomfortable.
• How our need for control can keep us stuck.
• The difference between intuition and fear.
• Why not knowing doesn't mean something is going wrong.
• How to build trust in yourself without needing all the answers.
• Finding strength and possibility in life's uncertain moments.

Plus, stay until the end for a guided meditation, The Freedom of Not Knowing, designed to help you release the pressure to have everything figured out and become more comfortable with uncertainty.

You don't have to know exactly where life is taking you to trust yourself along the way.

Sometimes, the most extraordinary things happen when we stop demanding certainty and allow ourselves to discover what's next.

Because uncertainty isn't always your enemy. Sometimes, it's your superpower.

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Beyond This… with Medium Matilda

Are you parenting from love, or are you making decisions because you feel guilty?

In this episode of Beyond This…, Matilda explores the guilt so many parents carry, from worrying about whether we've done enough to trying to give our children the childhood we never had.

We look at how guilt can influence our decisions, why saying no doesn't make us a bad parent, and how our own childhood experiences can shape the way we raise our children.

And what happens when our children become adults? How do we learn to step back, respect their choices and stop feeling responsible for every decision they make?

This episode is a reminder that loving your children doesn't mean being perfect, sacrificing yourself or protecting them from every disappointment.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why parental guilt is so common.
• The difference between parenting from love and parenting from guilt.
• How our own childhood experiences influence our parenting.
• Why boundaries and saying no are important expressions of love.
• Learning to let go as our children become adults.
• Releasing guilt while taking responsibility for our mistakes.

We finish with a gentle five-minute guided meditation to help you release parental guilt, practise self-compassion and reconnect with the love behind your intentions.

Because your children don't need a perfect parent. They need a loving, present and authentic one.

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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.

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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?"

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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…

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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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