At a Loss - It’s life and death
Funeral Celebrant Timothy Giles, guides us in compelling conversations on living when grief has left you at a loss. Guests share their stories, offering experience and insights on how to live a full, happy life in times of death, grief and loss. Comments/ideas; celebrant@ataloss.nz
Episodes
Dying Matters Week 2026 starts 7 September, bringing people across Aotearoa together to have open conversations about dying, end-of-life, grief and loss.
The week is about creating safe spaces to ask questions, learn from local experts, seek support, and make informed and meaningful decisions for ourselves and the people we care about. Across the country, there will be expert talks,...
In this episode of At a Loss, Dr. Kylie Kim (BVSc), founder of Sunset Vet Care, shares what it means to support families through one of life's hardest decisions: saying goodbye to a beloved pet. Through her work in in-home palliative care and euthanasia, she sees a peaceful farewell as one final act of love.
Together, we explore Kylie’s deep passion for animals, her own experiences of loss, and the compassion and openness she...
What is a Death Cafe? It’s a global phenomenon! Growing from a lounge room 15 years ago, to 97 nations now.
People gathering, without agenda to talk about death and all the experiences, issues and ideas around it. Dean Nottingham liked the Death Cafe he walked into so much, he started his own. What happens, why is it so popular? If you’re Death Cafe curious, this a chat for you.In this episode of At a Loss, Dame Naida Glavish reflects on Ora, Hinengaro, Wairua, and the experience of the tūroro, the person who is unwell, and how these parts of life and wellbeing remain deeply interconnected.
Through stories, insight, and lived experience, Dame Naida speaks about the relationship between the mind, body, spirit, and community, and how understanding those connections can shape the way we move through grief, i...
Natasha Plunkett loves her club, Shocking Pink, but is deeply saddened every time a new member joins. Shocking Pink is for women living with Breast Cancer, Natasha shares laughter and lessons she’s gained there. Insights for friends, family and especially spouses on how to live alongside someone you love facing this diagnosis.
She shares some "how not to" advice also. There are ways to be told bad news. Natasha&rs...
Writer, poet, and filmmaker Kevin Toolis explores a way of understanding death that feels both ancient and immediate. Raised on a remote Irish island, he reflects on a culture where the dead are not hidden away, but kept close - Seen, touched, and shared in the company of the living.
Woven through are later experiences reporting from warzones, where death takes on a different kind of presence. At the centre is the Irish wake, offer...
How to die naturally.
Carol McAllum is the doctor you meet when recovery isn’t possible. She shares thoughts, wisdom and wonder in all she has learnt about life and death. Death can be messy, but it can also be natural, here’s how.
Do tell the children
Sarah’s kids know Mum works with the dead. Because she tells them her work stories. In her old job nursing the dying, she told them all about that too. Sarah says, please talk to kids about death. Here she tells you how.
Would you live in a graveyard? Sheree Stout does. Her family home sits inside Auckland’s largest cemetery, where she leads a small team caring for thousands. Between running a busy crematorium, three funeral chapels, and a vast public park, Sheree is relentlessly practical, and deeply devoted to the place she lives and works in. She doesn’t see a graveyard as a place to fear, but one to understand, respect, and even lov...
And not just your heart. Organ donation is a gift that can change, improve and enrich the lives of many others, after your death.
But very few people donate their organs. In NZ less than 70 people a year donate their organs after death. Since 2020 the peak was 66 people donating in any one year.*
Host Timothy Giles talks with a pioneer of organ donation in NZ, Dr. Stephen Streat to demystify the process and hear some moving s...
Treza Gallogly is an End-of-life Doula with host Timothy Giles she shares her insights from helping people to die well.
Navigate fear and emotions, to celebrate life while preparing for death.
Treza offers advice on having important conversations, with people you care about, when facing end of life, care plans as death nears and growing your courage and compassion. This episode is all about transforming anxiety into acceptanc...
Meet Katrina King, the general manager of the Grief Centre, Australasia. "At A Loss," host and funeral celebrant Timothy Giles talks with Katrina about supporting people through grief. Exploring ways of creating safety, fostering empathy and evolving understanding of resilient grieving.
Katrina shares her vision and mission to build grief literacy for a society that's comfortable discussing grief and loss, and how this can help us ...
Welcome to "At A Loss," a podcast series hosted by Timothy Giles, a funeral celebrant dedicated to exploring the profound and often challenging journey of living fully with grief. In this episode, Timothy engages in a heartfelt conversation with Maria Miller, a bereavement support worker, about the complexities of grief and the importance of acknowledging and understanding it.
Maria shares her insights from her work at the Grief C...
What is this lethargy and sadness if no one died?
Loss of a job, a dream, a career, a relationship, we grieve all these things. Allowing ourselves to, can make all the difference. Counsellor Maria Millar is back telling our host, funeral celebrant Timothy Giles about understanding feelings of grief for all kinds of loss.
Therapist Jill Goldson of Family Matters has in an earlier episode, coached us through coping with the losses that come with Covid. Today, she shares more personal and profound struggles.
Since the death of her husband Malcolm, have Jill's professional skills as a counsellor, researcher and academic eased her grief? Host TImothy Giles is surprised by the answer.
When Kenzie, Nic Russell’s daughter was 2 she was diagnosed with cancer and died. But there was another challenge, Nic also had a 5 year old son that she needed to support through this journey.
In this episode, Nic tells host and funeral celebrant Timothy Giles, how important it is to be honest and open with children about death and of founding Kenzie’s Gift, a research-based support resource especially for children and...
Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua has 30 years ministry serving generations in life, and loss.
Host and funeral Celebrant Timothy Giles seeks tips from Rev Mua on surviving and thriving. Sharing more than his ministry, as a poet, parent and activist the Rev has stories to share. Emotions arise, anger and tears, ending in a moment of magic.
When you pregnant partner dies by her own hand, how do you survive, heal and hope to find a future?
Mark Wilson has experienced this loss and still achieved a life of meaning and love.
Mark tells his friend and former colleague, our host Timothy Giles how to rebuild a life after devastating loss.
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