Beyond This.....
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.
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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