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Contact Us
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Company:
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Clear Path Counseling
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Katharine Marsh M.A., L.A.D.C.
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Address:
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4601 Excelsior Blvd Suite 507A
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City, State, Zip:
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St Louis Park, MN 55416
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Phone:
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952-220-9712
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Conveniently located across from Trader
Joe’s & Pier One, free parking, handicap accessible.
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"Addiction exists wherever
persons are internally compelled to give energy to things that are not their true desires." Gerald
G. May
Dr. Guy Corneau, a Jungian Psychoanalyst,
has proposed that we learn to tolerate a "comfortable unhappiness." We compensate for our unhappy
state by working too much, watching too much TV, spending too much time on computers, and excessive drinking.
“ The addict tries to escape the tension
of existence. The creative person honors the tension by living in it and creating out of it. When uncomfortable
feelings come up, the addict reaches for drinks, or drugs or food or romance or power or buys possessions -
what ever erases the tension - instead of living through the tension, looking at the uncomfortable feelings,
naming them, recording them, and sharing the insights with others as does the creative person. Creative transformation
is guided by the wholeness of the psyche and centers the individual, leading to a new relationship with the
self, the higher power and the cosmos.
Addiction
leads to possession because it reduces the person’s wholeness to a monomaniacal obsession. The same energy
that serves addiction can be transformed into creative fire. ...In the creative process there is also a sort
of “possession,” a giving oneself over to the call of creativity. This kind of possession can be ....deepening
and transformative.” Witness to the Fire by Linda Schierse Leonard.
"A life or a culture, based on sensation
has no choice but to continually escalate the sensations, for we quickly grow desensitized to their incessant
drumbeat and their failed promise...... Stuck as we seem to be with the limits of our sensations, and
lacking a relationship to our own reality, we now are left to create the artifice of "realty TV.".....
Where we relinquish hope for connection, for depth, for meaning, we find only sensation,
and therefore we must do more of it, more often. ..... The culture of sensation can only produce
addiction and broken hopes........ Few if any of us are free of addictions, if we look closely enough,
and none of us are free of broken hopes and anxiety-generating issues. The more we seek to control these aspects
of our humanity, the further we drive from consciousness the essential mystery in which we walk" James
Hollis PH.D.
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