Carrying Them Forward: Grief, Ritual, and the Enduring Bond of Love

In this deeply moving Mother’s Day episode, Kara sits down with grief advocate Barry Leiner Grant to explore what it means to carry someone forward after loss.

After losing her mother, Barri has transformed her personal grief into a life’s work—helping others navigate loss with honesty, ritual, and connection.

This conversation moves beyond grief as an ending and reframes it as an ongoing relationship—one that evolves, deepens, and continues to shape who we are.

Barri Leiner Grant is the Chief Grief Officer™ of The Memory Circle. Grant has studied with the leading names in the grief space, including grief certification with Claire Bidwell Smith, Hope Edelman, David Kessler, and Dora Carpenter.

BARRI LEINER GRANT

Substack - Permission Granted

Instagram - @thememorycircle

KARA KAVENSKY

Website: Kara Kavensky

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Record Scratch with Kara is sponsored by Adam Gibson Design and Remain Relevant, a corporate storytelling masterclass

Produced by Marilou Marosz

Original music written and performed by Adam W. Gibson

TIMESTAMPS

[01:10] Introduction: Barri Leiner Grant

[02:13] Losing her mom

[04:20] Despising Mother's Day

[05:42] Tell me your mom's name

[07:36] Advice from a grief coach

[14:24] Camp Wicosuta