Making Meaning with Barri Leiner Grant
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How do we make sense of life when we are faced with something difficult? What kind of light can we make out of darkness?
Today, Barri Leiner Grant is her to tell us how she has manage to transform the loss of her mother into something very meaningful, in this new segment, Making Meaning.
Barri is an author, stylist, yogi and self-proclaimed memory maker.
For over two decades, Grant has established herself in the editorial and commercial markets—prepping, propping and conceptualizing everything from well-curated trend stories to memorable interior design shoots. Leading architects, photographers interior designers and leading retailers to help personalize their design work often tap her.
It is this kind of story telling that led her to create The Memory Circle.
After losing her mom Ellen suddenly in 1993, at the age of 50, Barri has had a spiritual connection to those who have experienced loss and grief.
The Memory Circle is a community and events created to bring grief stories to light.
To sit shoulder to shoulder with those who have experienced loss, so that no one is ever alone in the journey.
“I am on a mission. To bring grief out of the shadows -- and out from under a cloak of sadness.” Barri believes our lost loved ones should be celebrated, talked about and remembered. And that sharing grief should not be experienced in whispers.
Leiner Grant has served as a contributor to CS Interiors, Chicago Magazine, Crain’s, Michigan Avenue Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and Country Living Magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to life, death, and the space between podcast. Today we have another new |
| 0:10.7 | segment I'm trying out called Making Meaning. This segment is going to be focused on people who have |
| 0:17.3 | experienced some sort of pain, loss, anything in their life that's caused them a |
| 0:23.2 | hardship, and how they have worked to overcome that, to make meaning out of their pain, |
| 0:29.7 | and to transform this world. Today, we have Barry Liner Grant on the show. |
| 0:40.3 | Author, St, yogi, and self-proclaimed memory maker, Barry Liner Grant has an artful |
| 0:47.6 | eye and clever knack for the new, next, and unexpected. |
| 0:53.0 | For over two decades, Grant has established herself in the editorial and commercial markets, |
| 0:59.3 | prepping, propping, and conceptualizing everything from well-c curated trend stories to memorable |
| 1:05.2 | interior design shoots, leading architects, photographers, interior designers, and retailers to help personalize their design work |
| 1:15.1 | often tap her. |
| 1:17.4 | The sudden loss of Barry's mom in 1993, when her mom was only 50, has pushed Barry to recently transform how she's using her storytelling talents. |
| 1:33.0 | The memory circle was created to bring stories of grief to light in order to sit shoulder |
| 1:40.1 | to shoulder with those who have experienced loss so that no one is ever alone in the journey. |
| 1:46.9 | Here is Barry's story about how she found this new way to use her talents. |
| 1:56.8 | I remember once telling a therapist about my mom after I lost her. She died in 1993. She had an aneurysm on the beach, healthy here one day and gone the next. And I remember telling a therapist a story about her loss and that somehow I didn't even believe that she was real in many ways |
| 2:20.4 | because her presence was so powerful when she was here that I likened it to like some kind |
| 2:26.8 | of fairy like flew in, sprinkled her dust, selling, she was a realtor selling houses to everybody |
| 2:33.6 | and being this magical mom. |
| 2:36.0 | Like it appeared that she, you know, spent her whole life talking to us and being such an important part of our lives. |
| 2:43.1 | But then realizing that her life outside of being a mom was so big and powerful that she started charities and events that continued to this day |
| 2:56.8 | at a local theater called the Count Basie Theater and homeless shelters and women's shelters. |
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