onwords sends grieving families one short text a week for 13 months, grounded in onwords research and approved by onwords professionals. It’s a simple,low-cost way to extend your onwords 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 onwords 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 helppeople accept the loss, work through the pain, adjust, and stay connected
MargaretStroebe & Henk Schut. Healthy grief moves between facing the loss andrebuilding daily life. Messages give permission for both, without guilt
DennisKlass, Phyllis Silverman & Steven Nickman. Healing doesn’t require lettinggo. Messages encourage connection through memory, ritual, and legacy
RobertNeimeyer. Loss can break the story of a life. Messages invite small reflectionsthat help rebuild it
Namewhat they may be feeling
Asingle, doable step
The reason, in plainlanguage
Aforward-looking note, never a promise
Messagesnever tell someone where they “should” be
Anniversarymessages follow each family’s own date
About30 to 45 words at a sixth-grade reading level, because grief affects focus andmemory
When losing aspouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend changes what needs validating, themessage changes too
Everymessage is approved by the onwords 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
