Dr. Christa Evangelisto, PhD, author of Still Open: Choosing Life After Repeated Loss, founder of Black Horse Learning, LLC and creator of the Still Open™ Framework.
Author Publishes Story and Signature Healing Framework After Surviving and Rebuilding from Decades of Loss
DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX, UNITED STATES, October 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Adult learning expert, keynote speaker and author Dr. Christa Evangelisto, PhD announces the release of Still Open: Choosing Life After Repeated Loss, a book that challenges the notion that healing requires reaching an endpoint in grief. Drawing on nearly two decades in adult education and her personal experience of repeated loss, Evangelisto introduces an approach to resilience centered on remaining open to life, connection and purpose. The book also underpins her six-month Still Open™ Framework and signature keynote presentation, offered through her Texas-based company, Black Horse Learning, LLC. Still Open: Choosing Life After Repeated Loss is available through Amazon.
Evangelisto says, “After experiencing repeated loss, I realized that so much of the conversation around grief focuses on moving on or finding closure. But what happens when loss changes your life again and again? I wrote Still Open because I believe healing isn’t about returning to who we were before. It’s about discovering how to remain open to life, love and possibility—while carrying everything we’ve lost.”
Evangelisto’s perspective draws from experiences that profoundly changed her understanding of grief. Across three decades, she experienced the deaths of five children, a grandson and her husband. Rather than presenting resilience as the ability to withstand pain without changing, she examines how people can keep learning, maintain meaningful relationships, and find purpose while carrying profound loss.
Her approach also reflects nearly two decades of studying how adults learn, grow and adapt. As biology department chair at Dallas College, Evangelisto applies adult-learning principles to teaching and faculty development. In Still Open, she brings that educational perspective to the experience of grief, emphasizing reflection, personal agency and practical steps people can take as they navigate significant life changes.
The book’s central ideas extend into the Still Open™ Framework, a six-month educational program that features the ASHES™ Method. The method guides participants through acknowledging difficult realities, recognizing what remains, honoring loss, embracing new possibilities and taking intentional steps forward. A final integration phase helps participants incorporate these practices into everyday life, including developing a personalized plan for continued growth and resilience.
Through Black Horse Learning and the Dr. E Speaks banner, Evangelisto offers keynote presentations, workshops and educational programs informed by adult learning research and lived experience. While the book addresses people navigating repeated loss, the framework also serves educators, leaders and medical professionals seeking practical ways to navigate adversity, change and uncertainty.
More information about Evangelisto’s book, speaking engagements and educational programs is available at dr-e-speaks.com. Still Open is available for purchase on Amazon and through Ingram Spark, with links on Evangelisto’s homepage.
About Dr. Christa Evangelisto
Dr. Christa Evangelisto, PhD, is an adult learning expert, keynote speaker and author of Still Open: Choosing Life After Repeated Loss. She chairs the Biology Department at Dallas College, holds a PhD in Postsecondary and Adult Education and has published research on teaching critical thinking in STEM in three peer-reviewed journals. Drawing on nearly two decades in adult education and her personal experience of repeated loss, she created the Still Open™ Framework to help educators, leaders and medical professionals navigate adversity with resilience, connection and purpose. Evangelisto is the founder of Black Horse Learning, LLC, a Texas-based education, speaking and professional development company that delivers keynote presentations, workshops and educational programs through the Dr. E Speaks banner.
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