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For when you want to hear the whole story - not just the headlines.
Stories are meant to be spoken as much as written
These are conversations I’ve been invited into,
where grief, suicide, and what comes after are spoken out loud.
Featured across national media and international podcasts.
NZ Herald Feature
Wellington Mum on Losing Daughter to Suicide and Why Grief Has No Timeline
In this NZ Herald feature, I share the reality of losing my daughter, Kahlia, and what life looks like after.
We talk about the shock, the disconnection, and how grief doesn’t follow stages or end. It stays, because the love stays.
An honest reflection on suicide loss, and why we need to stop avoiding grief and learn how to sit with it.
Emotionally Unavailable with Malisa Hepner
A Conversation About Grief, Mental Health, and Carrying Both Pain and Peace
In this conversation, I speak openly about life after losing my daughter, Kahlia.
We talk about the reality of grief, the trauma, the pressure to appear “okay,” and how loss reshapes everything. Including the parts of suicide loss that don’t get said out loud.
And the truth I keep coming back to, that grief isn’t something you move on from. It’s something you learn to carry. Pain and peace, side by side.
An honest conversation about living when everything has changed.
Eavesdropping with Spencer Wise
A Conversation About Grief, Suicide Loss, and What Comes After
In this conversation with Spencer Wise on Eavesdropping, I speak openly about the reality of life after losing my daughter, Kahlia.
We talk about grief that doesn’t resolve, the impact of suicide loss, and what it means to keep living when everything has changed. Not as a story of “moving on,” but as a truth about learning to live alongside what cannot be fixed.
This is an honest, unfiltered conversation about love, loss, and the parts of grief people don’t often say out loud.
Healthy Meaning, Healthy Life
Making Meaning After Loss: Living With Grief Without “Moving On” with Kirsten O’Connor
In this conversation with Avik Chakraborty from Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, I talk about what it really means to live with grief after the loss of my daughter Kahlia - and why “moving on” isn’t the goal.
RNZ - Feature Article
A Year of Coping With the Grief of Losing a Daughter
Published by RNZ Life & Books February 2026
A thoughtful RNZ feature on The Year After Kahlia, grief after suicide loss, and the lived reality behind the book.
The piece explores memory, identity, and the continuing bond between parent and child.
RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
Talking About Grief, Love, and What Continues
A grounded radio conversation about grief after suicide loss, ongoing bonds, and how love doesn’t end when a life does.
We talk about the realities of grief, what helps, what harms, and how we can show up better for each other.
Book 101 Review - Interview with Kirsten O’Connor
A conversation about writing through grief, telling the truth about suicide loss, and why honest language matters. An interview with Daniel Lucas on Book 101 Review.
Unsilence Grief with Kirsten O’Connor on losing her Adult Daughter
A conversation about suicide grief, love, and the truth we rarely speak out loud. Recorded 26th November 2025
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The Gift of the Grief - The Deeper with Zoë Marshall
In this deeply personal episode, Kirsten speaks with Zoë Marshall about what it means to survive the unthinkable and to keep living after her daughter, Kahlia’s, death.
“Grief isn’t something to get over - it’s something we learn to live alongside.”
Listen on The Deeper with Zoë Marshall
(Subscriber-only episode titled “The Gift of the Grief,” available Apple Podcasts under The Deeper+)
