Author: Ben Ross

guest post by Ben Ross Letting Go Recently I went for a walk with someone I’m supposed to be helping in my professional role as a psychotherapist working for a community mental health agency. It was a hot day and for some reason I’d been feeling deeply drained the entire week, so drained it was Read More

by Ben Ross Names for the Unnamed There’s a pressure not to name it abuse or to claim the vulnerability and sensitivity of the heart reflective, wind-responsive as a river or to see the full ecosystem of a child’s inner life more vast and intricate than a coral reef. How it’s all still here in Read More

by Ben Ross What I Want More Than Anything Else Sometimes I think what I want more than anything else is to be rejected, and find out if love is here anyway – to fail, and find out if there’s an acceptance larger than achievement – to actually miss out on life, until I can Read More

Background of this Piece This writing is in response to a conference call held by my friend Chaya Grossberg (“Blogging Class for The Silenced”), where she outlined her vision for how expressing our voices and putting them out there can both transform our lives and rewrite the story of our culture. She invited everyone on Read More

by Ben Ross Things I Need to Speak Before I Can Fall Asleep Maybe before I can fall asleep tonight, I need to speak my truth. My truth is that grief is with me nearly every day of my life. And I’ve had to work very hard, to look deeply into my experience again and Read More