We are talking about a really important topic this week: grief. Grief is shocking in divorce. My guest Barri Leiner Grant, is a grief specialist and educator who joins me to help us understand how to process the grief we feel over an ended marriage. Barri divorced after a 17-year marriage and helps name grief and grieving for others who have experienced losing an imagined future. Putting the G-word in the D-word!  

Featured topics:

• Why do we grieve a divorce? (2:16)
• Shame is a complicating factor in grief and divorce (8:49)
• The root cause of the shame and how to move through it (17:00)
• If we don’t look at our grief head-on, it will grow like a weed
• Grief tending: what it is and how you can tend to your grief (21:18)
• Exploring who you are now and who you want to be (28:35)

Learn more about Barri Leiner Grant:

Barri Leiner Grant is a grief specialist and educator and the founder of The Memory Circle -- a place and space she created for those who have experienced both death and non-death losses. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Maria Shriver's Sunday paper, among many other media outlets. She is an author who shares her personal experiences of loss widely. She divorced after a 17-year marriage and helps name grief and grieving for others who have experienced losing a future imagined. Putting the G-word in the D-word!  

Resources & Links:

Kate’s book “The D Word

Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective

Barri's website

Barri on Instagram

The Artist’s Way

Episode link:

https://kateanthony.com/podcast/episode-266-putting-the-g-word-in-the-d-word-with-barri-leiner-grant

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