The Goodgrief App has been featured by a variety of news outlets. Here are a few featured articles.
Nothing turns a conversation from casual to awkward faster than when a stranger asks what I do for work. “I run an app for grief,” I say with a smile. There’s a moment of silence—the kind where a person fumbles for an appropriate response. Death, after all, is a conversation killer.
“Deep breaths,” read the text message. Like usual, Kim had responded quickly to my digital S.O.S., a satisfying trait in a friend I’d never met. Three more dots blinked on my phone. “You are on your way, lady,” read the next one. “Can you tell me to where?” I thumbed back, already feeling a bit better. “To redefine your life,” she wrote.
Just as 2016 was beginning, Robynne Boyd found herself facing the end of things. The husband she loved had left, and her mother was slowly dying of breast cancer. A thousand miles away from her home in Decatur, Kimberly Libertini, a woman she didn’t even know existed, was experiencing a similar grief in Huntington, N.Y. The morning after she and her partner, Adam, returned from a trip to Vietnam, Kim awoke to find him passed away.
It’s been nearly 2 years since Robynne Boyd of Decatur said goodbye to her mother Carol, and her marriage. “For a while, the world felt more untenable, it felt shakier,” Boyd says. With time, the grief has lessened its grip. “It doesn’t feel as intense, it doesn’t felt as acute,” Boyd explains. “I don’t cry all the time.” She credits some of her healing to Kim Libertini, a single mom and high school science teacher 900 miles away in Huntington, New York. Libertini knows exactly what Boyd has been through because she’s been there herself.