Barri: “We are born, when somebody is lost, to find them.”

The one and only, Barri Leiner Grant is here. Barri is the Chief Grief Officer and a Certified Grief Coach with The Memory Circle, a space and place to be with your grief.

When Barri’s own beautiful mother died in 1993, there were no resources available to help her family through the pain. Nobody said grief or grieving. She knew motherless daughters deserved better. So, she created and opened a door where there wasn't one before and eventually started The Memory Circle. 

Barri said “I want grief to be normalized. It needs a better place to live in modern day society. Let’s work on becoming more grief literate in our daily lives.”

In this episode, we chat about her mother’s final days in a beach chair eating plums, writing to the dead, how to reframe big milestones in our lives, and menopause.

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Links mentioned in the episode 

• The Memory Circle - Barri’s organization 
• Purchase Barri’s “Remember and Reflect” Deck 
• David Kessler’s book “Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief”  
• Claire Bidwell Smith’s book “Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief” 
• Steve Leder’s book “The Beauty of What Remains” 
• Hope Edelman’s book “Motherless Daughters” and others
  

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