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Sample Grief Coach support text: "Tomorrow will mark the 3-month anniversary of Jamie's death, and may be a
particularly difficult day for Ally. Reach out to Ally tomorrow if you can, and give her the opportunity to talk about Jamie if she wants to."

How text messages can help hospices — and all of us — support our grieving loved ones

Now hospices can meet the growing demand for bereavement support with regular tips and reminders delivered via text Since launching Grief Coach, I’ve been asked time and time again if I find it depressing doing this work. The answer is always, always no. I don’t find this work depressing — in fact, I’ve never been happier at work than I am today.

Grief Coach social graphic over a rocky coastline: "We get it. Grief is scary. Sometimes we worry so much that we
end up saying nothing at all."

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How I learned to help the grieving one text message at a time

On my flight home from my friend's funeral, I thought about the fear and discomfort that had kept people from reaching out when my husband died a decade earlier. Their distance had hurt me, but I now knew that it had hurt them too. For over a decade, people I cared very much about had been carrying around guilt and shame. It all seemed so unnecessary. I knew we could do better.

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How text messages can help hospices — and all of us — support our grieving loved ones

How I learned to help the grieving one text message at a time

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