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Employee Support3 min read

94% of Help Texts subscribers are referred to additional resources matched to their loss. Here's why that matters.

Learn how Help Texts matches 94% of subscribers with personalized grief resources, improving care access and driving benefit utilization for organizations.

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Grief9 min read

Grief after a drug or alcohol related death

If you have lost someone to substance use, you are carrying something that few people fully understand. The grief is real and immense.

Grief after a traumatic loss is like being under water

Bereavement5 min read

Grief after a sudden, unexpected loss

I've talked to a lot of people who can tell you the exact second their life split into before and after. The phone call. The knock at the door.

Dates in the calendar that are unexpectedly hard

Bereavement4 min read

The dates you didn't circle

You're doing fine. Then, on a random Tuesday in October, for no reason you can point to, you can't get out of bed. Grief isn't supposed to work like this.

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Employee Support4 min read

How the LCBO delivers grief support to 8,000+ employees across Ontario

How the LCBO offers a full year of personalized grief support to 8,000+ employees across Ontario, with three years of steady enrollment and sustained engagement.

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Bereavement4 min read

The Overlooked Reason People Decline Grief Support

Wanting support and having the capacity to receive it are not the same thing." Why traditional support groups and counseling can feel impossible for exhausted grievers, and how to design care that actually meets them where they are.

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Grief7 min read

The 5 stages of grief and why they don’t tell the whole story

Where they came from, what they are, and what they are not.

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.

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Grief7 min read

Grief after losing a friend

Losing a friend can be one of the hardest griefs to carry, partly because so few people around you know how to hold it with you.

Grief5 min read

Losing your dad as an adult

Grief looks different for everyone, and there is no right timeline. Our post on The Grieving Process has more on how grief actually works.

A person sitting alone on the edge of a bed in the morning light, reflecting on the grief of losing a spouse.

Grief6 min read

Why the mornings and evenings can be the hardest moments after losing your spouse

All of grief is hard. The funeral. The paperwork. The first time you reach for your phone to tell them something.

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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.

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