Lovingly Alice

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Successful musician Ryan wants to quit touring to spend more time at home with his young family and hopes an upcycling business will make that possible. Mentor Zoe can see that his work is high quality, but she is worried that his style doesn’t stand out from the crowd. Ryan also produces unique digital art, so can Zoe convince him to be bold and use it on his upcycled furniture? If Chloe Angyal's Turning Pointe was a bit too much modern history and not enough memoir for you, but you want something more contemplative than a standard ballet memoir—or if you're interested in hearing more stories that don't read like a litany of successful performances with the occasional worrying injury thrown in— Don't Think, Dear makes for a compelling middle ground of personal narrative and broader view. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to peruse Robb's bibliography... I think finding some connection, however big or small, goes some way to reducing the power imbalance and we both need that. We are here together, with the same aims, doing this work together.

This doesn’t need to be any grand intervention, but can be stories of meaningful conversations with parents or young people, direct work with children, light bulb moments, or simply connecting with someone in a way that you know they may never have experienced before. This is eminently readable and well-paced nonfiction, never dry or dull, and I loved this frank but loving look into the world of ballet.At some point in the conversation it felt relevant to share about my daughter having had acid reflux and how much I struggled during the first year because of this. She said her daughter also had the same. Mentalizing means you can make links between how your own thoughts and feelings influence your behaviour. We also mentalize for others – attuning to what another person may be thinking or feeling and how this may be impacting their behaviour. Born December 17, 1943 in Blenheim, New Jersey, she was the daughter of the late Raymond and Alice (Fiedler) Boyd.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch! You can just drop me a message. Looking forward to hear from you and your cats! :)As well as informing assessments, asking questions like these, which prompt a parent to consider their child’s internal states, can help develop their capacity to mentalize with their child. You can also help parents to develop mentalization by modelling it yourself towards them. Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development. The success of this intervention relies on her ability to feel seen, heard and understood by me and that gives me the best chance of helping her to do this for her daughter. A delightfully honest and entertaining peek behind the literal and figurative curtain, and a must read if you love ballet. In 1950, while working on his book The Revolt of American Women, Oliver Jensen — a thirty-six-year-old former Life magazine editor and writer — discovered 3,500 of Alice’s glass-plate negatives in the basement of the Staten Island Historical Society and was instantly taken with their uncommon genius. Leafing through phone books, he was staggered to realize that Alice was still alive, then doubly staggered to learn that she was living at a poorhouse.

As you might guess from that last quote, the book does dive into the woke, feminist mindset so prevalent among those Robb’s age (she’s in her early 30s). We hear a lot about #metoo and how NYCB founder Balanchine and NYCB choreographer Peter Martins were abusive to dancers. Balanchine claimed to choose dancers “as you would choose horses.” The book’s title comes from a Balanchine quote to a dancer: “Don’t think, dear. Just do.” As the years go on, Robb feels “guilty about harboring affection for a system that clearly harmed women.” She is thrilled to attend a ballet and see a “gender nonconforming” dancer “(who uses they/them pronouns)” in a female role. She is ecstatic when, during covid, she sees dancers performing in masks. Contribute to an open and creative learning culture in the workplace to discuss, reflect on and share best practice. Robb didn't make it as a professional dancer. Ultimately, her body was not built for the exacting requirements demanded of Balanchine's ballerinas, and she moved on to other things. Yet ballet had wrapped its pointe ribbons around her soul—she could leave ballet, but it would not leave her. Thus this book: Don't Think, Dear is part memoir of being a student, part dive into the history of Balanchine and all that surrounded him: the New York City Ballet, the School of American Ballet, the Balanchine technique (which enabled dancers to perform surprising new feats, but at a steep cost to their bodies), the way Balanchine demanded dangerous thinness and complete submission of his dancers. Yesterday I had a call to introduce myself to a client who I am going to start working with during a 12 week video based mentalization intervention. Her relationship with her 7 year old daughter is at breaking point.Dr Loving is an honorary lecturer for the Centre for Child Protection at Kent University and has published work in the Child and Family Social Work and Children England journals. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled ‘Working with cases of neglect and emotional abuse’, featured in Child Protection and the Care Continuum. Shehas previously worked with Community Care, providing social workers with effective direct work techniques and producing guidance on understanding attachment relationships and writing about this in court. She was recently commissioned by Community Care to produce a practice guide on ‘Attachment Trauma’ and parenting.