Barri Leiner Grant is the Chief Grief Officer™ of The Memory Circle. Grant left her career as a publicist and reporter to persue full-time work as a Certified Grief Coach, ICF. “I created intimate motherless daughter events when I received my yoga and mediation training and certification, and knew I needed to make the Circle bigger.” Grant has studied with the leading names in the grief space, including grief certification and education with Claire Bidwell Smith, Hope Edelman, David Kessler and Dora Carpenter. She combines her writing background and yoga/meditation training to craft a one-of-its-kind way forward. She believes with her grief tending techniques, we can honor and learn to live with loss. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Psychology Today, essays on Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper and Zibby Magazine, on award winning podcasts, television appearances and radio shows.