Episode 08: Inevitable grief with Wendyl Nissen and Te Waka McLeod
A conversation about our parents, loss and navigating grief 🖤
Time has flown by and we are now at the final episode of Season 01! 🤯
It has been an enormous joy journeying with you all and building this community over this season and I can’t wait to keep the kōrero we have started going in the time to come. Thank you for all the kind words and encouragement - they have meant more than you know! 💛
Today, I’d love for you to join me for Episode 08: Inevitable grief.
Death, grief and loss are universal experiences - including the inevitable grief that accompanies the loss of our parents - an unavoidable season that comes in many different forms.
In this episode, I speak with journalist, broadcaster and former magazine editor, Wendyl Nissen, about her relationship and journey with her late mother who suffered from Alzheimer's, and whose story she wrote about in her book My Mother and Other Secrets.
I’m then joined by my friend, Te Waka McLeod (Ngāti Mutunga, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi), who shares vulnerably about navigating grief since losing both her parents in her 20s. She also gives/gifts us an insight into the way tangihanga are carried out in Taranaki, where she is from - and how these traditions have supported her grief.
🎧 Listen on the rova app, Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Song credit: Korimako, Performed by Aro, Written by Emily Looker and Charles Looker and published by Songbroker.
I’m keen to hear from you… What are some of your fondest memories of your parents?