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Gina is the Bereavement Coordinator at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. And she's exhausted.

Emma Payne · 1 June 2021 Grief Coach Grief Support Grief Death Burnout Healthcare Providers

Healthcare providers are suffering from compassion fatigue and burnout. Gina Kornfeind, a Bereavement Coordinator and Social Worker at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, is using Grief Coach's text-based grief support program to help her keep up with the growing need for resources for patients' family members, colleagues, and her friends and neighbors too.

Grief Coach subscriptions now include text support from Megan Devine

Emma Payne · 25 February 2021 Grief Coach Grief Support Grief

Exciting news! Grief Coach has partnered with psychotherapist and grief advocate, Megan Devine, to bring deliver Megan's world-renowned grief support straight to your phones. All year long.

When my Dad died, Grief Coach helped me have open conversations with my husband

Emma Payne · 23 February 2021 Bereavement Grief Support Grief Grief Coach Loss of Parent

Sarah Khatau was only 25 when her Dad died. She felt as though her life had been turned upside down. "I didn't know what to do," Sarah shared with me. "I didn't know how to handle my emotions. I was broken and trying to grieve."

Accessibility and Privilege in Grief Support.

Emma Payne · 19 October 2020 Grief Grief Support Bereavement Grief Coach COVID-19

Most people don’t get the support they need after someone dies, and that is bad news for individual mental health, as well as for the development of healthy families and communities.

Breathing New Life Into Death: 5 Tech Companies From Female Founders Making Sure No One Grieves Alone

Emma Payne · 14 January 2020 Entrepreneurship Grief Death

After decades kept firmly backstage, people are talking about death and grief, and bringing difficult conversations into the limelight.

No-one makes me smile when they talk about death, the way Zeena makes me smile.

Emma Payne · 16 November 2019 Grief Podcast End of Life

Add this podcast to your queue. Zeena's light-hearted, poignant stories about end of life, are ones you'll remember.

Great storytelling lets grieving children know their tears are OK.

Emma Payne · 10 November 2019 Grief Support Grief Children's Grief Sympathy Gift

This Children's Grief Awareness Month I want to share my favorite grief book for children (OK, probably my favorite grief book ... period).

Grief Coach selected for Emerging Ventures Day at this year's End Well Symposium.

Emma Payne · 14 October 2019 Grief Support Grief End of Life

This year I'll be spending my birthday with entrepreneurs and investors in San Francisco, who are gathering together to stimulate innovation & investment in end of life. Perfect!

You’re Grieving. You’re Overwhelmed. But when people ask how they can help, you draw a blank.

Emma Payne · 28 August 2019 Grief

Are flowers and casseroles what you really want when you’re grieving? Probably not. Here’s how to get the invaluable support you need after a loss. I’ll never forget a conversation I had with my friend Alison the week after my husband died. I had just moved from the UK to Canada, and was getting set up in a hastily booked apartment. Alison asked me what I needed. “Nothing,” I said, unable to think straight about much of anything. “Do you have any sheets to sleep on tonight?” she asked. “No,” I said. “How about plates or utensils or food?” she continued. “No, I don’t have those either.” We laughed, and Alison proceeded to do the thinking for me. I was lucky.

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

Emma Payne · 16 July 2019 Grief Grief Support

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.