Wild Foxgloves Counseling, PLLC

09/03/2025

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05/10/2025

How has your story shaped your relationship with your significant other?

01/26/2025

This poem beautifully and poignantly describes the light sensitivity individuals live with after an insult to the brain.

"'Vintage' Edison LED bulbs sear my eyes and brain
to the point where I need medication to function and
sunglasses to navigate my way through the living
world, the living room.

My partner knows me. Knows that I will take months
to decide upon paint chips and upholstery fabric,

knows that I prefer the dark with a smattering of
seasonal lights strung along the mantel with few lumens,

and he thinks he understands why, though it bothers him
that I am not moved by his need for brightness.

He thinks he knows me, but he cannot know me.
He cannot see through my eyes, and though truly

I wish I could, I cannot escape my head and settle
comfortably behind the ridge of his forehead, either.

Current top relationship experts insist we should not know
everything about each other. Leave the candle of mystery lit.

Learn everything and risk dousing all the flames of passion.
Lean in too close and risk smoldering that flame.

I say fine to all this. Let's give our candle plenty of air.
May it burn hot, but--can we cover it with a lampshade?

Scintillant from Skull by Amy Baskin
PNW author and English teacher

https://www.amazon.com/Skull-Amy-Baskin/dp/1956285806/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ET5X28CJ59GA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ixOsFEGwrA-NsM8xThXIGw77moCOLlAYykaKmbdiAPqJURdung_E4via9nn3Zg3neNbe861d3XBzT7Tl1v0cSw.PNAJmJ-SGgt2rM4Tx2t9fLzeeHsQF4sWlaZToklUmLk&dib_tag=se&keywords=skull+Amy+baskin&qid=1736834528&sprefix=skull+amy+baski%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwY2xjawIDiyBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWVLFpk86GhdRWXJIXAbS9nBeDXFfRtxANAalK-IoNhU0GDZ1uENyoQm4w_aem_awnPil4HGDLtt95zeL52IA

"Amy Baskin's tight new collection Skull begins with the disorientation of an accident which then moves into its aftermath-the squint-eyed way we navigate a world of dark and light post-trauma, trying to survive what happens to, around, and inside of us. With precise and vivid language to ren...

01/14/2025

If you have suffered a brain injury, or want to understand it better, Amy Baskin (a Portland author and English teacher) has written a poignant, witty and vividly descriptive book of poetry, aptly titled Skull, that is highly worth the read.

"Amy Baskin's tight new collection Skull begins with the disorientation of an accident which then moves into its aftermath-the squint-eyed way we navigate a world of dark and light post-trauma, trying to survive what happens to, around, and inside of us. With precise and vivid language to ren...

01/12/2025

Dan Allender is one of the kindest and most insightful persons I have ever met. Which, if I may add, is an unusual combination. He has partnered with Steve Call for a new book, The Deeply-Rooted Marriage, that's worth checking out. If you pre-order (before January 21) and fill out the form on Thomas Nelson, you get access to a 2 hour webinar on January 16 from 2-4 PM, a journal, conversation starters, and a sample of the book. (I receive no kickbacks from this.)

01/08/2025

01/07/2025

Whether mild, moderate or severe, if this sounds like you or someone you know, I encourage you to begin to write out all the times you remember some impact to your head or body over your entire life. That includes car accidents, falling from a high chair or tree a a child, playing contact sports (especially football), intimate partner violence, hitting your head on a cupboard, having something fall on your head (like laundry detergent from a shelf), and consider what your cumulative history is.

01/02/2025

Were you chosen to carry the shame of your family (what they couldn’t bear about themselves)?

12/30/2024

Were you the child in the middle?

Like the Olympic National Park tree, just keep hanging in there — together, we’ve got this.
Photo by Michelle Wiese.

12/30/2024

Were you believed?

12/28/2024

For those who suffered abuse and have blamed yourselves for "not doing anything"--may this research bring your heart some rest.