onwords sends grieving families one short text a week for 13 months, grounded in bereavement research and approved by bereavement professionals. It’s a simple, low-cost way to extend your bereavement program.
Families enroll once. onwords sends a message every week for 56 weeks, plus messages timed to the anniversary of their loss. Each one names what they may be feeling and offers one small, doable step. Built for compliance, so your outreach is documented for your onwords records.
One message a week, from enrollment through the full bereavement period.
Anniversary messages follow each family’s actual date of death.
Every message is logged, so onwords
Grief doesn’t follow a timeline. Every message in the 56-week library draws on the frameworks that shape onwords care today, written so a grieving person can take it in on a hard day
J.William Worden. Grief is active work, not a waiting period. Messages help people accept the loss, work through the pain, adjust, and stay connected
Margaret Stroebe & Henk Schut. Healthy grief moves between facing the loss and rebuilding daily life. Messages give permission for both, without guilt
Dennis Klass, Phyllis Silverman & Steven Nickman. Healing doesn’t require letting go. Messages encourage connection through memory, ritual, and legacy
Robert Neimeyer. Loss can break the story of a life. Messages invite small reflections that help rebuild it
Namewhat they may be feeling
Asingle, doable step
The reason, in plainlanguage
Aforward-looking note, never a promise
Messages never tell someone where they “should” be
Anniversary messages follow each family’s own date
About30 to 45 words at a sixth-grade reading level, because grief affects focus and memory
When losing a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend changes what needs validating, the message changes too
Every message is approved by the bereavement team at The Retreat
onwords runs alongside the rest of Grace, so onwords outreach sits on the samedocumented timeline as the care that came before it
