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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.

Time Stamps

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
33:00 Close

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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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We're taught to see our soul as something incomplete — a project to fix, heal, and perfect. But what if the soul arrives whole, and everything that triggers us here on Earth isn't proof something's wrong, but an invitation to learn? In this episode, Matilda unpacks why "I'm triggered" so often becomes "I'm retreating," and offers a different way through: treating every hard moment as an opportunity instead of a threat. Includes a short guided meditation to help you meet your next trigger differently.

The soul arrives whole — you're not broken and becoming, you're whole and remembering.

• Earth isn't the punishment, it's the classroom — friction is the curriculum, not a glitch.
• "Triggered" implies something happened to you. "Opportunity" implies something is available to you. Same moment, different posture.
• Every trigger is a teacher in disguise, pointing at something worth looking at.
• Retreating doesn't remove the lesson — it postpones it, and it comes back louder.
• Flow isn't the absence of friction. It's movement through it, not around it.
• The key question to ask in a triggered moment: "What is this actually offering me?"

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Why do we trust the signs that confirm what we already believe — and ignore the ones that don't?

In this episode, Matilda takes a hard look at confirmation bias — the mental shortcut that shapes everything from the readings we trust, to the news we consume, to who we vote for, to how we read our own relationships. Drawing on her background in behavioural economics, she unpacks the psychology behind the Barnum effect, cold reading, and why so much of what passes for "evidence" in the psychic and spiritual world is really just the sitter's own mind doing the work.

From there, the conversation moves into how the same bias plays out in politics and media — why facts alone rarely change a belief tied to identity — and into the quieter, more personal ways it shows up in our everyday lives and relationships.

But underneath all of it sits a bigger question: why do we reach for certainty in the first place? Matilda explores the psychology of our discomfort with not-knowing, and why a false certainty can feel safer than an honest question. The episode closes with a guided meditation on sitting with the unresolved — a practice in tolerating uncertainty without rushing to fill it.

A more reflective, personal episode — and an honest one, including a candid look at Matilda's own field.

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The self you built to stay safe was never a lie — but it has an expiry date, and its collapse isn't a breakdown. It's an invitation.

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Most people who come to Matilda for a reading aren't lost — they're still performing a version of themselves built decades ago to survive. In this extended episode, Matilda unpacks where the "survival self" comes from, why it quietly costs us access to our own intuition, and why spiritual "awakening" almost always looks like loss before it looks like light. Expect a reframe of what awakening actually is, a practical discernment tool for collapse, three journal prompts to start locating who you were before the performance began — and, new for this episode, a short guided meditation to help you meet that self directly.

Key takeaways

• The identity you built as a child to earn love and safety was adaptive, not a flaw — but it wasn't built to last forever
• Chronic self-abandonment often disguises itself as reliability and strength
• Burnout is very often self-abandonment wearing the costume of loyalty
• Real awakening tends to look like loss first, not clarity — the ego mistakes deconstruction for catastrophe
• A two-question discernment tool for telling genuine loss apart from the death of a performed identity
• Three journal prompts to begin locating the self underneath the survival strategy
• A guided meditation practice to meet that self directly, not just intellectually understand it

Timestamps 

• 00:00 — Cold open: the client who was tired of performing
• 04:30 — Segment 1: Why we build the survival self
• 16:00 — Segment 2: The cost nobody names
• 27:30 — Segment 3: Reframing "awakening" + the two-question discernment tool
• 40:00 — Segment 4: What's underneath — three journal prompts
• 50:00 — Segment 5: Guided meditation — meeting the self beneath the performance

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What if the biggest thing standing between you and your intuition... is the belief that it's difficult to access?

In this week's episode, I'm challenging one of the biggest myths in the spiritual world—that intuition is something reserved for the gifted, the chosen, or those who know the right rituals, buy the right crystals, or reach a certain level of consciousness.

The truth?

You were born intuitive.

You don't need to become someone different to connect with your guides. You don't need permission. You don't need to be "more spiritual."

You simply need to remember what you've always known.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why "woo-woo" spirituality can unintentionally keep people dependent instead of empowered.
• How mystifying intuition convinces people they're not ready or not enough.
• Why your intuition is far more practical, grounded, and accessible than you've been led to believe.
• The powerful 90-Second Rule and how it can help you distinguish between intuitive knowing and fearful overthinking.
• Why your first instinct is often your wisest one.
• How reconnecting with yourself is an act of remembering—not learning.

This episode also includes:

✨ A guided meditation to help you reconnect with your own inner knowing and quiet the noise that has pulled you away from yourself.

✨ This week's intuitive predictions and energetic insights for the weeks ahead.

If this conversation resonates with you and you're ready to go deeper, I'll also introduce my course Are You Listening?—a practical, grounded experience designed to help you stop searching outside yourself and start trusting the wisdom that's been within you all along.

Because intuition isn't a gift given to a few.

It's your birthright.

You have always known.

Sometimes, all you need is a little help remembering.

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Something is happening in the spiritual community right now — a wave of tarot readers and intuitive practitioners are publicly walking away from their work, finding God, going viral. In this episode, Matilda looks at what's actually underneath that: the burnout that's real and under-acknowledged, the clinical reality of spiritual psychosis that almost nobody in this space will name, and the algorithm that profits from crisis content regardless of whether the crisis is genuine.

Then she brings it closer to home. Because underneath the public collapse of any identity built on being right or being the guide, there's a quieter version of the same thing happening in all of our lives — the need to be right in our relationships, the distances we've built out of pride, the people we've quietly left behind to win an argument.

This episode closes with a guided meditation on meeting your own ego — where it lives in the body, what it's protecting, and who it might be costing you.

It is better to be there than to be right. Sometimes that's the hardest lesson of all.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 — Cold open

03:00 — The pattern: tarot readers turning to God

07:00 — Burnout in public spiritual work

11:00 — Spiritual psychosis — naming what nobody will

16:00 — The algorithm of crisis

19:00 — What it does to you, the follower

22:00 — The pivot — ego in everyday life

26:00 — Ego vs integrity: who benefits from being right?

30:00 — The cost of needing to win

34:00 — The common thread

37:00 — What evidential practice taught me about being wrong

40:00 — Guided meditation: meeting your ego

47:00 — Close

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If you've ever looked at your life and wondered how you became the person who does everything for everyone — this episode is for you.

In this deeply personal and unflinching episode, Matilda explores the hidden architecture of people-pleasing: how it gets installed in childhood, how it quietly transfers into our adult relationships, and why so many women in their fifties arrive at a moment of reckoning that looks like a crisis but is actually the first honest conversation they've had with themselves in decades.

This isn’t a man-blaming episode, or a marriage-blaming episode. It’s an invitation to look at the model of love you were handed before you were old enough to question it — and to ask, honestly, whether you want to keep building on it.

A full guided meditation — “Putting The Ledger Down” — is included at the end to help you move this from your head into your body, where it can actually do something.

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What if Spirit has been speaking to you all along, but you've been expecting it to sound different?

In this deeply insightful episode of Beyond This, Medium Matilda explores the subtle and powerful language of Spirit. From intuition and synchronicities to dreams, feelings, signs, symbols, and those moments that simply cannot be explained away, Spirit is constantly communicating with us—but learning to recognise that communication is a skill.

Matilda shares her own experiences as one of the world's most recognised evidential mediums and predictive psychics, explaining how Spirit communicates, why messages are often misunderstood, and how fear, doubt, and overthinking can distort what we receive.

In this episode you'll discover:

• The difference between intuition, imagination, and Spirit communication.
• Why Spirit rarely communicates the way we expect.
• Common signs and symbols that are often overlooked.
• How to strengthen your connection to your guides.
• Why presence is the foundation of spiritual awareness.
• The biggest mistakes people make when trying to receive guidance.

The episode concludes with a powerful guided meditation designed to help you quiet the noise of the outside world, connect with your own inner wisdom, and begin recognising the unique language through which Spirit speaks to you.

Whether you're completely new to spiritual development or have been walking this path for years, this episode will help you deepen your awareness and trust the messages that may already be arriving.

Sometimes Spirit isn't silent. Sometimes we're simply not listening.

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