 at Arsenal?
It remains to be seen if Guendouzi will go straight into the Arsenal first team or spend time out on loan, although the price tag would suggest he could go into the senior set-up despite the step up from Ligue 2 to the Premier League.
He can play as a defensive or central midfielder and it is an area that Arsenal have needed to improve upon for a few seasons, and he could partner fellow new signing Torreira in that area.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Mohamed Elneny will also be competing for spots, and any combination of the four could be deployed by Emery, although Guendouzi’s age and lack of top-level football could see him further down the pecking order at the start of his Arsenal career.
But Lorient have a history of producing good quality players – including Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny, who made the same move as Guendouzi in 2010 – and the midfielder is certainly a player the Gunners can bank for the future.
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* Please note visitors to our school are required to be fully vaccinated.I think it might be important to note that unless someone asks for advice, they’re very unlikely to follow it. Even if someone asks for advice, it might not be appropriate to give it. Most psychotherapists avoid giving clients advice because it takes away from the client’s autonomy and makes it seem like the therapist, not the client, knows what’s best for the client. 

Furthermore, even if someone is upset or struggling, that doesn’t mean they even want advice. They might just want to feel heard. Jumping into advice giving doesn’t make people feel heard— it makes them feel analyzed or like they are a problem to you. 

I’d say that advice for a friend crosses the line to psychological advice if you are ‘playing therapist’ and are giving advice in such a way that your friend feels like YOU know what’s best for THEM. For example, if your friend says, “I don’t know how to cope with how I’m feeling,” and you were playing therapist, you might say something inappropriate like, “try going to the gym to distract yourself” or “you just have to feel through the pain.” Although this is reasonable advice, it’s not really helpful, and isn’t something a good friend or a good therapist would say to their client. You’d definitely cross the line if you said “let’s try practicing [x CBT technique] together.” But if you were giving him advice on how to build a deck or who he can call to find a new family doctor, then that type of advice is what a normal friend would give. 

Just be a friend. Listen to them. Avoid advice. They just need someone to listen to them and sit with them in their pain— that’s why most struggling people go to friends (and psychologists!) in the first-place.Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak is Professor of Theatre and Director of the Asian Theatre Program in the University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Theatre and Dance. She earned bachelors degrees at the University of Iowa in both theatre and Chinese, and then attended graduate school at the University of Hawaii. While carrying out the field research for her doctoral dissertation on the performance structure and aesthetics of Jingju (sometimes called ‘Beijing/Peking opera’ in English), she became the first non-Chinese to perform Jingju in the People’s Republic of China, playing the role of Yang Guifei in the Mei Lanfang classic, Guifei Zui Jiu - The Favorite Concubine Becomes Intoxicated. Since that time she has written and published on 20th and 21st century Jingju performance, including numerous encyclopedia entries, journal articles, and books including Listening to Theatre -The Aural Dimension of Jingju Performance, now being published in Chinese translation in Shanghai.
At the University of Hawaii Professor Wichmann-Walczak has also organised numerous Jingju Resident Training Programmes with culminating full-scale English-language productions of major Jingju plays. These training programmes have been taught by master performers and musicians from China, and have been attended by students from around the world. The Jingju plays that Professor Wichmann-Walczak has translated and directed for these training programmes include one modern play, Shajiabang - Spark Amid the Reeds, one ‘newly-written historical’ play, Yang Men Nü Jiang - Women Generals of the Yang Family, and four classical plays: Feng Huan Chao - The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest; Yu Tangchun – The Jade Hall of Spring; Si Lang Tan Mu - Si Lang Visits His Mother; and Qin Xianglian - The Case of Judge Bao and Qin Xianglian. At Chinese invitation, the productions of three classical plays have been given performance tours of Mainland China, playing in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Wuxi, and Nanjing.
Dr Wichmann-Walczak was on the 1983 advisory panel for the formation of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ School of Drama. She is the first honorary (and first non-Chinese) member of the National Institute of Xiqu (sometimes called ‘Chinese opera’ in English), as well as the Chinese Theatre Artists Associations of Shanghai and of Jiangsu Province. She has been awarded the National Xiqu Music Association’s award for excellence in research, creation, and performance, as well as the National Festival of Jingju’s Golden Chrysanthemum Award for outstanding achievements in promoting and developing Jingju.Years later prayers are, “make me more me than ever.” I no longer fear who I am, but rather stand in awe of it.
In the slow, agonizing throes of resurrection I am becoming who I am. That is the only possible way to exist with any shred of authenticity in a world that demands we wear masks, binding ourselves in the shrouds we use to protect ourselves from one another’s wills, demands, expectations, insults, and prejudices.
We hide because the world demands it, telling us who we can and who we can’t be if we expect to live under the world’s bankrupt conception of “peace.” We case ourselves in layer upon layer of falsehood as we pray and pretend, “God, make me successful; God, make me at peace with my body; God, make me straight; God, change me to make me acceptable; God, don’t abandon me in my worthlessness.” The prayers echo in silence.
But we take that silence to mean that God doesn’t care, or isn’t there at all. Can that be true at the end of the day? I say no—I scream it; God is desirous, voluptuous, persistent and perplexing, who, even as we wait in silence, is making all things new, including a core deep within each of us that must be dug out and fanned into brilliant flame. That is who God makes each of us, that part of us that will be raised from the dead in spite of the death of our egos and wrongdoings and defense mechanisms, to make us one with God.
It’s only when we die that we can be raised from the dead. Something will break us, and only when that crack is there and we lay in shards on the floor can we be pieced together again radiant with light and gold.
The frenzied love of a God in the business of raising the dead will have nothing to do with anything but our truest selves. To wit, no one was ever saved by pretending; it could be that the Advocate who leads us into all truth does so by showing us who we are, by showing us how God sees us: of infinite worth, no longer dead but alive. Because this is the only reason I understand humans to exist: to radiate with love, dancing with God, and pulling all the world into the dance alongside us.
 We, dappled things, are desired, are beloved, are sustained and sanctified by the Ground of All that Is. Queers and Christians alike should know this: we are a people undergoing resurrection, even if we don’t know it is Christ raising us, making us who we were meant to be all along and had lost in the fray. And heaven trembles with joy at the sight.
Heaven trembles, falling at our feet.
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