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Why do intelligent, capable people stay in unhealthy relationships, ignore red flags, seek constant reassurance, or give their power away to others?

In this deeply honest episode of Beyond This, Matilda explores the idea that hungry people eat lies—not because they're weak or naïve, but because emotional hunger changes what we're willing to accept.

Together, we unpack the difference between love and relief, why false security can feel safer than genuine self-trust, and how unmet emotional needs can keep us repeating the same patterns in relationships, spirituality, and life.

This episode explores:

✨ The difference between love and emotional relief
✨ Why we ignore red flags when we're starving for connection
✨ The hidden cost of seeking validation outside ourselves
✨ Spiritual dependency and the search for certainty
✨ Why familiar doesn't always mean safe
✨ How to stop settling for emotional crumbs
✨ Building true security from within

Plus, stay until the end for a powerful guided meditation designed to help you reconnect with your own inner wisdom, reclaim your energy, and come home to yourself.

Because the greatest freedom comes when you no longer need someone else to tell you who you are.

All predictions and spiritual insights shared are offered without context and are intended for personal reflection and entertainment purposes only.

Medium Matilda is a Psychic Medium with a Doctorate of Behavioural Economics and works with people globally connecting their loved ones in spirit, working as a teacher and spiritual guide.

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In this deeply personal and empowering episode of Beyond This, Medium Matilda explores the lifelong habit so many people carry of shrinking themselves to fit into the comfort, expectations, and limitations of others.

From dimming your personality and questioning your worth, to making yourself smaller in relationships, friendships, workplaces, and even families — this episode is a reminder that you were never “too much.” You were simply taught to take up less space.

Matilda shares honest insights into confidence, self-worth, emotional conditioning, and the subtle ways people abandon themselves to avoid rejection or judgment. This episode also includes practical tools and mindset shifts to help you stop apologising for who you are and begin stepping fully into your own power.

Also in this episode:

·      New intuitive predictions for the coming months

·      Energy surrounding the USA and Donald Trump

·      Insights connected to the World Cup and world events

·      Why collective tension is continuing to rise globally

·      A healing guided meditation for those who have spent much of their lives feeling misunderstood, overwhelming, “too emotional,” or “too much”

This is an episode about reclaiming your voice, your presence, and your right to exist fully — without guilt.

Because the truth is…
You were never too much.
You were simply surrounded by people who benefited from you believing that you were.

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Everything You've Been Wanting to Ask

This is the episode the community has been asking for. Matilda sits down solo to answer the questions that land in her inbox and DMs most — the ones about how the spirit world actually works, what mediumship really feels like from the inside, and how to begin trusting the intuition you already have.

She answers honestly, including the question she gets asked more than almost any other — am I ever wrong? — and what that means for the integrity of this work.

From there, Matilda leads listeners through a guided meditation designed to help them connect with their own intuition. Gentle, grounded, and accessible whether you've meditated before or never tried.

The episode closes with Matilda's latest predictions — new impressions she's been sitting with and what she feels is coming. For those new to Beyond This, this is the place to start paying attention.

In this episode:

— The spirit world — what it is, how it communicates, and how to recognise it in your own life — How Matilda receives messages and what that experience actually feels like — The difference between a psychic and a mediumship reading — Whether everyone has intuition — and how to develop yours — How to tell the difference between intuition, fear, and wishful thinking — Am I ever wrong? — Guided meditation: Connecting With Your Intuition — Matilda's latest predictions

Beyond This is hosted by Matilda — internationally renowned psychic medium, Evidential Medium, and Dr of Behavioural Economics.

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This week Matilda is going somewhere unexpected — and necessary.

Following on from last week’s episode on propaganda, today’s conversation zooms out to look at what propaganda is actually building toward. And why the spiritual community, of all communities, cannot afford to check out of that conversation.

Australia just had a historic Labor landslide. The UK handed Labour one of its biggest majorities in decades. And in both countries, the collective exhale that followed may be the most dangerous moment of all.

Because the right didn’t go away. It reorganised. It got smarter. It got funded. And it’s been quietly consolidating while everyone was busy feeling relieved.

Matilda calls out something she sees happening across spiritual communities — a pattern of using high-vibe thinking, manifestation culture, and the desire to “stay above the noise” to avoid engaging with political reality. She names it for what it is: spiritual bypassing. And she makes the case that genuine spiritual awareness isn’t about rising above the messy material world — it’s about being more present to it.

This episode covers the rise of One Nation to historic polling highs in Australia, Reform UK’s devastating local election results in May 2026, the neuroscience of fear and how it’s weaponised by authoritarian movements, and what it actually means to be a conscious, discerning person in this political moment.

It ends with a grounding meditation designed to help you hold the weight of all of this without being crushed by it — and to find the one true thing you can do.

This isn’t a political episode. It’s a consciousness episode. And it might be the most important conversation Matilda has had on this show.

IN THIS EPISODE

- Why the exhale after an election win is the most dangerous moment — not the election itself
- One Nation’s historic polling numbers and what’s actually happening beneath Australia’s Labor majority
- Reform UK’s May 2026 local election results and the pattern emerging across the English-speaking world
- Spiritual bypassing — what it is, where it comes from, and how it shows up in our communities
- The neuroscience of fear: what propaganda does to your prefrontal cortex and why it works
- How authoritarian movements begin — not with policy, but with a manufactured enemy
- Why conscious, intuitive people are not immune — and what real discernment looks like
- What Matilda is actually asking of her listeners (it’s not what you think)
- A grounding meditation to help you stay rooted, present, and capable of action

PREDICTIONS

As with every episode predictions are talked about

CLOSING MEDITATION

This week’s episode ends with a grounding meditation focused on roots, anchoring, and finding stillness while remaining present to the world. No music — just silence and space.

The closing question to sit with: *What is one true thing I can do?*

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If this episode moved something in you — please share it. Especially with Australians. Especially with people who are feeling comfortable right now.

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Most people think propaganda is obvious.

It isn’t.

It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t force.
It quietly shapes what you believe… until it feels like your own truth.

In this episode of Beyond This, Matilda explores how propaganda operates across religion, politics, and modern spirituality—and why even the most well-meaning belief systems can influence the way we think, learn, and trust ourselves.

With insights inspired by Edward Bernays—the man who understood how to shape public perception without people realising—it becomes clear that influence is not something happening “out there”… it’s something we’re all part of.

Including an interview with Rod Smith Historian surrounding Propaganda, media and political and religious influence. 

This episode will challenge you to ask:

• Where did my beliefs come from?
• Am I thinking—or repeating?
• What does truth actually feel like for me?

Includes a guided meditation to help you reconnect with your own inner knowing and begin separating external influence from personal truth.

This is not about what to believe.

It’s about learning how to trust yourself.

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Most people think they’re seeking guidance.

But what if… you’re actually avoiding responsibility?

In this episode of Beyond This, Matilda explores the subtle but powerful difference between being guided—and quietly handing your decision-making over to something outside of you.

Because guidance isn’t here to tell you what to do.

It’s here to show you what you already know.

And often… that’s where the discomfort begins.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, going in circles, or constantly looking for confirmation before you act—this episode will challenge the way you see guidance entirely.

Inside this episode:

• The difference between true guidance and dependency
• Why you keep seeking answers you already have
• How growth is often misinterpreted as things “not working”
• Where your values may not align with the life you want
• And why nothing changes until you do

This is a grounded, honest conversation about self-trust, alignment, and what it really means to be supported—without giving your power away.

There’s also a guided meditation at the end of the episode to help you reconnect with your own inner knowing.

If you’re ready to stop waiting for answers… and start responding to them, this episode is for you.

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In this episode of Beyond This, internationally recognised psychic medium Matilda explores the concept of the unhealed healer — practitioners who may have intuitive or spiritual ability but have not yet developed the emotional maturity required to responsibly hold influence in the lives of others.

Spiritual ability does not automatically create self-awareness.

As spiritual spaces continue to grow in popularity, discernment becomes increasingly important. Not every practitioner has done the inner work required to separate ego from guidance, projection from perception, or validation from genuine service.

This episode explores:

• why spiritual roles can attract unresolved wounds
• the difference between ability and integration
• signs of grounded, ethical practitioners
• why boundaries are essential for genuine spiritual development
• how self-concept influences who we trust
• why empowerment should always be the goal
• how to recognise when external influence may be creating confusion rather than clarity

This conversation is not about judgement — it is about responsibility.

Because real spiritual growth strengthens independence, not dependence.

The episode also includes a guided meditation to help you return your attention to your own energy, recognise where you may be making life more complicated than it needs to be, and begin developing deeper trust in yourself.

Discernment is not scepticism.

Discernment is self-respect.

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In this deeply personal and in-depth episode, Medium Matilda explores one of the most misunderstood topics in spirituality — the spirit world itself.

Many people assume that anything connected to mediumship must be a belief system, religion, or something mysterious and even frightening. But evidential mediumship is not based on belief — it is based on evidence.

Through thousands of readings, evidence consistently demonstrates the continuation of consciousness after physical death. Personalities remain intact, relationships continue, and love does not disappear simply because the body does.

In this episode, Matilda explains why the spirit world is not something to fear, why spirituality is often misrepresented as dark or unsafe, and why evidential work shows that connection with loved ones in spirit can bring comfort, reassurance, and healing.

The conversation explores:

• Why the spirit world is not a religion or belief system
• What evidential mediumship actually demonstrates
• The continuation of personality after death
• The role of spirit guides in supporting our lives
• Why fear has been attached to spirituality
• How connection with loved ones in spirit can support healing
• The difference between evidence and opinion in spiritual work
• Why the spirit world is experienced as loving, calm, and supportive

Matilda also speaks about the way grief changes our experience of the world, and how connection does not end when someone dies — it changes form.

At the end of the episode, you will be guided through an extended meditation specifically created for those who are grieving. This meditation is designed to help you feel calmer, more supported, and more open to the possibility that love continues beyond physical life.

This episode is not about asking you to believe.

It is about understanding why so many people experience comfort, healing, and reassurance through evidential connection.

The spirit world is not something distant.

It is something that walks beside us.

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In this episode of Beyond This, Matilda is joined by medium Megan Alisa for a thoughtful and honest conversation about ethical mediumship, the responsibilities that come with spiritual work, and the common pitfalls developing and professional mediums may encounter.

Together, they explore the importance of integrity, boundaries and emotional regulation in mediumship practice, and why evidence should always come before interpretation.

Ethical mediumship is not simply about delivering information — it requires neutrality, self-awareness and the ability to recognise when pressure, expectation or ego may begin influencing the connection.

In this conversation, Matilda and Megan Alisa discuss:
• common ethical pitfalls in mediumship
• the pressure to perform and deliver information quickly
• the importance of remaining neutral during a reading
• how interpretation can unintentionally distort evidence
• maintaining professional boundaries with clients
• recognising when the desire to be right interferes with accuracy
• why silence can be an important part of evidential work
• how responsibility strengthens trust in spiritual practice

This episode also includes a guided Returning to Centre meditation, helping you reconnect with steadiness, clarity and grounded awareness — an essential skill for both professional mediums and those developing their intuition.

Ethical practice protects the sitter, the medium and the integrity of the work itself.

Because mediumship is not just about connection — it is about responsibility.

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Trusting the signal is one of the most important — and often most misunderstood — aspects of evidential mediumship.

Trust is not blind belief. It is not about assuming every thought is communication, and it is not about needing to feel completely certain before speaking. Trust develops through experience, evidence, and a willingness to allow information to unfold naturally.

In this episode, Matilda explores how mediums receive information through references, impressions, emotions and symbols which must then be translated into language. Because mediumship is interpretive, validation becomes part of the process. Spirit provides the reference, the medium communicates what they perceive, and the sitter recognises the meaning. Together, evidence becomes clearer and trust strengthens.

We discuss why doubt can interrupt perception, how the nervous system influences clarity, and why patience and concentration are essential skills for mediums at every stage of development. The episode also explores why names are not always received perfectly, yet relationships, personality traits and shared memories often provide stronger and more meaningful evidence of connection.

For those developing their abilities, this conversation offers insight into how confidence grows over time, why interpretation is part of evidential work, and how learning to trust your signal can strengthen accuracy and integrity.

For those considering a reading, this episode provides a deeper understanding of how communication with Spirit works, why validation matters, and why evidential mediumship is a collaborative process rather than a performance.

This episode emphasises ethical responsibility, humility, and the importance of allowing evidence to build naturally. Trust develops through practice, reflection, and a commitment to accuracy over assumption.

Includes a guided meditation for concentration and focus to help quiet the mind and strengthen awareness of subtle information.

Whether you are developing your abilities, curious about evidential mediumship, or seeking reassurance about the process of receiving a reading, this episode offers a grounded and practical understanding of how trust in the signal develops over time.

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