Blog | Grief Coach

Making Difficult Conversations Easier: Text messages and card games that help us talk about death

Emma Payne · 23 January 2020 Death Grief Support Grief Coach Hospice Entrepreneurship 2

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.

Grief Coach on panel at Live Well Die Well Los Angeles

Emma Payne · 16 January 2020 Grief Support Bereavement Grief Coach

I can't wait to join this group of end-of-life innovators in LA. This rare event connects art, loss, grief, healing, movement, theatre, and how we all ultimately embrace life…and death.

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.

My surprise encounter with a Grief Coach subscriber: Best birthday gift EVER!

Emma Payne · 10 January 2020 Grief Support Bereavement Grief Coach

As I went to get myself a birthday cup of tea, a woman came to introduce herself. A Grief Coach subscriber!

New specialized offerings for hospices, tissue banks and funeral homes.

Emma Payne · 3 January 2020 Grief Support Hospice Funeral homes Tissue banks Eye banks

Grief Coach is working with the San Antonio Eye Bank, to deliver text-based grief support to their donor families.

My meeting with CNN's nominee for "Hero of the Year"

Emma Payne · 27 November 2019 Grief Support Founder Children's Grief

Mary Robinson still has the sympathy card she received her neighbor 40 years ago, when her Dad died. Your vote can help her win $100K for her work in childhood bereavement.

Pinch me! Investors are flocking to these 2 Seattle start-ups, led by women who are re-imagining death and grief.

Emma Payne · 20 November 2019 Grief Support Entrepreneurship End of Life Founder

Recompose and GiveInKind dominated Seattle start-up news on November 19th, with nearly $6M raised. And they're just getting started.

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).

An inspiring conversation with Ashley Jones, founder of Love Not Lost, about loss, fear and love.

Emma Payne · 29 October 2019 Grief Support Mom Entrepreneurship Loss of a Child

Like so many people who suffer a traumatic loss, Ashley was devastated when her daughter died, but also felt isolated in the aftermath, as friends struggled to find the words or - worse - stayed away.