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The Identity you Built to Survive
14/07/2026 | 44 mins.
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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.

Episode summary
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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Have We Made Spirituality Too Complicated?
07/07/2026 | 46 mins.
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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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Ego Both Ways - Is it better to be there - than always right?
30/06/2026 | 1h
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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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You Trained Them to Treat You This Way
23/06/2026 | 38 mins.
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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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The Language of Spirit - Are you Listening?
16/06/2026 | 36 mins.
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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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The Podcast that talks about Life, Sprit and Everything In Between.Beyond This..... is a chart-topping spiritual podcast for seekers, sensitives and the spiritually curious who are ready to understand life on a deeper level. Hosted by Psychic Medium Matilda, the show explores the real, raw and transformational sides of spiritual growth - far beyond cliches and surface level advice.With episodes that blend grounded teaching, compassionate guidance, and powerful lived experience, Beyond This..... helps listeners navigate intuition, healing, self-concept, signs from spirit, boundaries, manifestation, grief, and the everyday magic we often overlook.Whether you're awakening to your gifts or strengthening your connection to your guides, this is the space where spirituality becomes practical, welcoming and deeply human.Hosted by Matilda - an international recognised psychic medium, spiritual educator who has more than 20 years of lived experience connecting with spirit. Matilda ahas guided thousands of people through healing, intuition, self-growth, and profound personal transformation.known for her grounded approach to spirituality, Matilda balances compassion with clarity, weaving together real-life wisdom, intuitive insight, and practical teaching that supports listeners at every stage of their spiritual journey. Her work has attracted a global audience, with followers across TikTok, YouTube and her thriving online community she continues to be booked months in advance for her sessions, workshops and mentorship. Matilda's mission is simple - to make spirituality accessible, ethical, and empowering.Through Beyond This..... she helps people understand their guides, navigate signs from spirit, expand their self0concept and reconnect with the deeper meaning running beneath everyday life.Whether you're new to spirituality or well on your path, Matilda offers a space where curiosity is welcomed, transformation is possible and you're reminded that you're never walking your journey alone.Matilda TikTokInstagramYouTubeWebsitePatreon

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