Ep. 481 Help Texts: Text-Based Grief Support with Emma Payne

End-of-Life University

Learn about effective, personalized grief support that arrives via text message and how this innovation is a game changer for caregivers, healthcare workers, and the bereaved.

My guest Emma Payne is the founder and CEO of Help Texts, which provides private grief, caregiver, or mental health support via personalized text messages. On this episode, Emma’s second guest appearance, she will discuss what’s new on the Help Texts platform and the data they’ve been gathering about the efficacy of grief-informed texting. You need to know about this tool if you work anywhere in the end of life as a means of offering support to people who are grieving, caregivers and healthcare workers. This is a game-changer! Learn more at the website:

helptexts.com

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This episode includes:

• What inspired Emma to create Help Texts
• Why text messaging is an ideal delivery method for grief support, as validated by neuroscience
• How Help Texts messages are customized and personalized to each person who signs up by many different experts in this space
• Why the cost of Help Texts is less than one hour of therapy
• Research shows remarkable efficacy of these messages
• Why people supporting grievers are also included in receiving helpful messages and reminders by text
• The ripple effect of helping people become “grief literate” one text message at a time
• How hospices and other organizations are signing up to gift Help Texts to the families they work with
• Help Texts for healthcare workers and caregivers
• Support is also now available for pregnancy loss, pet loss, and mental health issues

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