By Benny Jasso, Sr. – as told to Terri Schexnayder The Charreada (Mexican rodeo) was an event for our whole family. My sons, Benny Jr. and Dennis, whom I began to train when they were young, would participate in the rodeo’s nine events. My wife Alice cooked and raised funds for many events. I loved …
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When University of Texas sophomore Dina Ragow called The Christi Center, she had no idea how much it would change everything – both then and in the future. Dina had just lost her mother to colon cancer, right on the heels of losing her only sibling, Dana, to leukemia just two years prior. She could …
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by Jessica W. Brown On Friday, August 26, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall at Rockport, Texas and has devastated the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas. 53 Texas counties have been impacted, with a total population of over 11 million Texans affected. That is 46% of the population of Texas. This is an unprecedented disaster, a …
On March 2-3, The Christi Center will once again participate in Amplify Austin, a citywide day of online giving. This year our goal is to raise $40,000 in 24 hours, which would support the cost of providing grief support services for 40 adults for an entire year! To reach this goal, we’re looking for ambassadors …
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Our Kids Who Kare program serves our youngest grievers (ages 5-12) and their parent/guardian with twice-monthly groups. For our children’s groups, we offer dinner for the children and their caregivers (who have concurrent meetings) to make the craziness of feeding kids and getting them to the group on time less of an issue. It also allows …
Recently, our Kids Who Kare Coordinator Christi Neville, LPC shared this information with the caregivers of children who attend these groups. Since grief affects sleep for all of us, not just in children, we thought it would be helpful to share with you. Recently at one of our groups, the kids were asked how they …
by Roque Hesson Overcoming losing my mother when I was five, my brother when I was ten, and my stepmother when I was twenty-two has shown me so much. The grief process will never be the same for everyone; the grief process will never be delicate; the grief process will never become routine. There is …
by Kathy McCleskey This holiday season marks another milestone in our grief journey. Like the journey itself, this milestone is an unexpected one. Bob and I often characterize this journey as having a yellow school bus come to our door and forcing us to get on the bus. We DO NOT want to get on, …
by Laura Barron Recently I attended the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling’s conference in San Antonio. When I saw the lineup of topics, I jumped at the chance to attend the session entitled: BRINGING BEREAVEMENT OUT OF THE CLOSET: PARTNER/SPOUSAL BEREAVEMENT AMONG LGBTQ+ INDIVIDUALS. In my short time interning at …
