Building a bridge to fear-free speech - taming your stammer
There are probably lots of things most people on here agree with: Stammering is rubbish, it saps your strength, can be humiliating, and holds you back from achieving what you want.
The key seems to be acceptance; it can’t be cured, so you might as well suck it up and accept your lot. Once you reach this place, you can desensitise yourself to your stammer, and at this stage, everything starts to look more positive.
Wow, that sounds like such a logical approach, but for most people, it is totally unachievable, and we get stuck with the overwhelming negativity of a stammer.
What if we could build a bridge or have a guide to help us navigate from uncontrollable stammer to acceptance, desensitisation and ultimately fear-free speech?
I’d be interested in hearing from others who have made this transaction from the misery of a stammer to something approaching fear-free speech. What was your bridge, who guided you along this path, and how does it feel now that you have reached something you previously thought unattainable?
For me, the bridge was costal breathing; it took me years to reach a state of fear-free speech, and to tame my stammer.
