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Suppressing Emotions in Grief

Grief isn't just an emotional experience—it's a whole-body response. Supporting bereaved individuals means normalizing the full range of physical and emotional reactions they may experience.

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Outcomes6 min read

The most underrated tool in grief care is text

Why small, sustained messages of care outperform the bereavement programs most organizations pay for.

A sample text message reading "Hi, Abby. Today would have been Jason's birthday. Take a minute to send a favorite memory or story to Julie. She'll appreciate hearing a happy story, and it will be good for you too."

Death5 min read

Making difficult conversations easier: text messages and card games that help us talk about death

Whether it’s a card game or text messages, I love that there are new ways to take the awkwardness out of the moments in our lives when we most need each other.

Close up of an exhausted caregiver resting their face in their hands, representing caregiving burnout and cancer loss.

Grief6 min read

Grieving a cancer loss when you are burned out from caregiving

You did everything. The appointments. The medications. The middle-of-the-night wake-ups.

Bereavement2 min read

The Ones Who Know Us Best: Sibling Losses

When a sibling dies, it's not just the physical separation. It's also the removal of daily moments. The calls, texts, laughs, and reassurances go away. It’s the conversations that only your sibling would understand, that are lost. For adults, losing a sibling means losing a retirement buddy, support taking care of aging parents, and the ability to share childhood memories. For children and adolescents, losing a sibling young can create losing a playmate and someone to read stories and share childhood with.

A man sitting alone on a white chair looking to the side, coping with the loss of his wife and life partner.

Grief5 min read

Losing your wife or life partner

Grief looks different for everyone. There is no right way to do it, no timeline you need to keep.

An adult woman looking thoughtfully out the window with a coffee, navigating the grief of losing her mom as an adult.

Grief4 min read

Losing your mom as an adult

Grief looks different for everyone. There is no right way to grieve, and no timeline you need to keep.

Hospice3 min read

Help Texts now offers bereavement support to Canadian hospices

For more than five years, Help Texts has been working with hospices across the US to provide compassionate, clinically sound support to bereaved families. Now this support is available in Canada, and leaders at hospices including Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and Vancouver Hospice Society have adopted Help Texts as a new way to provide year-long support to the families in their care.

College students smiling while sitting on a bench

Grief Support7 min read

Why does social support drop off when you need it most?

The people in your life didn't stop caring. Here's why social support drops off after a loss, and what you can do when the silence starts to hurt.

Grief Coach4 min read

Six pain points grievers have after a death... and how HelpTexts (Grief Coach) texts can help

Grief Coach founder Emma Payne and Head of Bereavement Melissa Lunardini sat down with UK psychotherapist Liz Gleeson on her podcast, Shapes of Grief. Throughout their conversation, they touched upon six pain points grieving people have and the unique ways Grief Coach texts offer support.

Illustration of a teen with long dark hair holding a phone showing a speech bubble, with the title "3 Ways to Support a Teen Who's Grieving"

Grief Coach3 min read

Three ways to support a teen who is grieving, in partnership with the Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families

Have you ever struggled to know what to say to a teen or young adult grieving the death of a loved one? Try these three tips from Dougy Center and Grief Coach.

Grief Coach3 min read

Four ways Grief Coach (Help Texts) texts help hospice organizations support bereaved families after a death

We were recently highlighted in a Hospice News article called "The Rise of Tech-Enabled Grief Care." Here are four ways Grief Coach helps hospice organizations and their bereavement teams support people grieving a death.

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