Beyond This.....
Beyond This... is the podcast that explores what happens when evidence meets intuition.
Hosted by internationally recognised evidential psychic medium Matilda, each episode dives into the mysteries of consciousness, life after death, intuition, human behaviour and the moments that challenge everything we think we know. With honesty, humour and an unwavering commitment to critical thinking, Matilda explores the extraordinary without asking you to leave your common sense at the door.
Featuring conversations with world-renowned guests, powerful personal stories, practical intuitive development and thought-provoking discussions on current events, spirituality and the unseen world, Beyond This... is for the curious, the sceptical with manners, the believers and everyone in between.
Whether you're searching for comfort after loss, wanting to strengthen your own intuition, or simply fascinated by the bigger questions of life, this podcast invites you to explore them with openness, discernment and courage.
Because sometimes the greatest discoveries begin just... Beyond This...
About Matilda
Matilda is an internationally recognised evidential psychic medium, teacher, speaker and podcast host whose work has helped hundreds of thousands of people reconnect with their intuition, navigate grief and discover that they already possess far more inner wisdom than they realise.
For more than two decades, Matilda has dedicated her life to demonstrating that the connection between this life and the next can be explored with integrity, evidence and compassion. Her demonstrations and teachings have attracted audiences around the world, while her podcast, Beyond This..., reaches listeners across dozens of countries through conversations that challenge, inspire and empower.
Known for her practical, down-to-earth approach, Matilda encourages people not to place anyone on a pedestal—including herself. Instead, she teaches discernment, critical thinking and self-trust, helping people recognise the intuitive guidance that has always been within them.
Whether delivering evidential mediumship, making global predictions, mentoring developing mediums or speaking on intuition and consciousness, Matilda's mission remains the same: to empower people to trust themselves, find meaning in life's most profound moments and discover that love, connection and wisdom extend far beyond what we can see.
Her work is built on one simple belief:
You don't need to become intuitive. You simply need to remember what you've always known.
Beyond This.....
The Identity you Built to Survive
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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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