At A Loss - with Timothy Giles

At A Loss - with Timothy Giles

Kai ora nau mai, haere mai. Welcome to the home of At a Loss podcast. A podcast series, created to help normalise grief, loss and death as part of everyday life. A collection of conversations to help us life full, happy lives, aware of and in the presence of death. A way of building community and individual resilience. Each conversation has TImothy GIles, host and creator of At a Loss, talking about the experience of grief, death and loss with everyday people and exploring how to live a full happy life, when death, grief and loss are present. We record regular new episodes, mostly from our Auckland podcast studio. Listen and please let us know what you think and feel of our work. If you would like to come tribute or commend someone you know as a contributing guest, get in touch. Timothy Giles works as a resilience facilitator and works in grief, if you’d like to speak to him abut workplace, community or interest groups hosting his programmes on resilience or talk and workshops on grief, read his bio page or just contact him directly.

Episodes

Episode 12 - A sad truth or a miss truth - Nic Russell

August 26, 2021 • 29 mins
When Kenzie, Nic Russell’s daughter was 2 she was diagnosed with cancer and sadly 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 talks about how important it is to be honest and open with children about death and how she founded Kenzie’s Gift, a research-based support resource especially for children and young people.
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Episode 11 - Righteous Anger - Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua

August 26, 2021 • 30 mins
Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua has 30 years ministry serving generations through life, and loss. As host Timothy Giles seeks tips from Rev Mua on surviving and thriving, emotions arise, anger and tears, ending in a moment of magic.
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Episode 10 - Host in the hot seat - Timothy Giles

August 26, 2021 • 30 mins
Our host Timothy Giles swaps seats this week to share his grief. Guest Aston Wells returns. Having shared his devastation and adaptation to life without his treasured brother Sean, he's back to check on Timothy after the sudden death of his big brother Paul.
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Episode 9 - My Mentor in Mourning - Jill Goldson

August 26, 2021 • 30 mins
Jill Goldson of Family Matters has in an earlier episode, coached us through coping with the losses that come with Covid. Today she shares the more personal and profound struggles she faces, since the death of her husband Malcolm. Has her personal professional skill set as a highly credentialed counselor, researcher and academic eased her grief reflex? Host TImothy Giles is surprised by the answer.
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Episode 8 - Brother where art thou - Aston Wells

August 26, 2021 • 30 mins
Fighting Fit. Perfectly describes Sean Wells. Sean's older brother Aston, discovered Sean in bed one morning, cold and dead. He died of natural but still unclear causes. Aston's life collapsed and he tells our host and Wells' family friend Timothy Giles of ten years grief driven risk taking and addiction, a life on the edge, until finally finding acceptance and peace with the grief for his lost and deeply loved brother.
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Episode 7 - When grief isn't caused by death - Maria Millar

August 26, 2021 • 27 mins
Can you grieve something other than the loss of a loved one? What is this strange feeling of lethargy and sadness if no one had died? In Maria Millar's second episode, she talks to our host Timothy Giles about understanding feelings of grief that are due to a loss other than death. Loss of a job, a dream, a career, a relationship, we grieve all those things and allowing ourselves to can make all the difference.
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Episode 6 - By her own hand - Mark Wilson

August 26, 2021 • 28 mins
Suicide touches so many. Leaving wounds and wonderings that are hard to heal. Difficult even to mention. So in this episode Timothy Giles talks with his friend and old workmate, Mark Wilson, about Mark’s experience of his wife’s suicide. Working in mental health communications now Mark takes us through the experiences and emotions of devastating loss. As well as personal insights into how to cope, and to help others heal.
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Episode 5 - Death did us part - Trish Guttenbeil

August 26, 2021 • 28 mins
This is not the life Trish Guttenbeil signed up for. But when husband Jason was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she lost the ability to chart her future with him. Just nine months later Trish was a widow and sole parent to their four children. In this episode Trish tells host Timothy Giles of the devastating impacts of losing a life partner. Explaining in compelling and moving detail the layers of loss that surpassed the grief prev...
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Episode 4 - Covid Stops Play - Jill Goldson

August 26, 2021 • 30 mins
Jill Goldson is our first listener that has gotten in touch with us to record her own episode. Jill is the Director of The Family Matters Centre and has over 30 years working to support families, kids and couples. Although her intention was to talk about another subject altogether, with New Zealand now returning to various levels of lockdown due to Covid-19, our host Timothy Giles asks Jill how we cope with challenges of Covid stop...
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Episode 3 - Unnatural Grief - Sara Lane

August 26, 2021 • 25 mins
No parent should bury their child. A saying heard too often and always at times of profound pain. A pain familiar to Sara Lane, who’s first baby, son Josh was stillborn. In the years since Sara has become a committed volunteer with Sands NZ, supporting bereaved parents.
In this episode Sara shares insights from years of supporting others and talks about her personal experience grieving for her child. She also schools our host Timoth...
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Episode 2 - Do not remember them - Gary Taylor

August 26, 2021 • 30 mins
When Covid came, the world changed. When funerals were banned, our grief, our normal coping, was banned too. For people who lost a loved one like host, Timothy Giles, being locked down meant also being locked out, from the social contact and support that helps us through the shock of loss.

Covid also shocked funeral professionals. The rules changed overnight. So who reacted so rapidly? Who made these crucial new rules? Gary Taylor, ...
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Episode 1 - Is it good to talk about grief - Maria Millar

August 26, 2021 • 27 mins
What should we say to a friend who’s lost a loved one? Where do we even begin? Maybe we begin by understanding what grief is. Maria Millar works the phones for The Grief Centre, helping people navigate their way through loss. She talks with people from all walks of life. Encounters every kind of reaction to grief. In this episode, Maria offers At A Loss host, Timothy Giles, the best definition of grief he’s ever heard. A definition...
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