We often hear of a good death and struggle with bad deaths. Dr Carol McAllum, believes in natural death. In this conversation, she reflects on decades in palliative care, sharing personal experience, reflection and insights. Helping us to consider how to hold the knowledge and even imminence of death, our own and those we love

Recorded in her busy hospice workplace, Carol shares the challenges she values for herself, her peers and all of us. Can we ease our community into learning how to die a natural death?

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 stories as we learn more about this too rare gift we can offer after death.

*Organ Donation NZ statistics

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 acceptance and empathy. Treza shares how supporting your loved ones in their final journey brings meaning and healing and guides along the way.

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 all find hope.

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 Centre, where she supports individuals dealing with loss. She emphasizes the significance of making emotional space for grief and maintaining connections with loved ones who have passed. The episode delves into the unpredictable nature of grief, debunking the myth of a linear process and instead describing it as an ocean with waves that come and go.

Listeners will find valuable advice on how to support themselves and others through the grieving process. Maria highlights the importance of asking, "What do you need?" as a guiding question for both those grieving and those offering support. This episode offers a compassionate and insightful perspective on navigating grief and finding ways to live an enriched life despite the presence of loss.

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 young people.