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Episode Description (long — for podcast platforms)
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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