Just Bring It, Stutter or No Stutter (Podcast episode)

Just Bring It, Stutter or No Stutter (Podcast episode) Stutter with Confidence #63 with Gina Corley Just Bring It, Stutter or No Stutter I had a lot of fun speaking with pharmacist Gina Corley from West Virginia. We discussed how she was a confident kid in part because her parents never made her feel like her stutter was a bad thing and how she actually enjoyed getting up and speaking in front of people in those years; how she developed her Stuttering Iceberg (shame, embarrassment, etc) more when she got into pharmacy school and a couple of professors started docking points on her presentations because of her stutter; her feeling in her body that she doesn’t take in enough air when she speaks and her related sense that the longer she talks the more dysfluent she gets; the adverse effect that Gina feels like wearing a mask has had on her breathing and her speech; Mike demonstrates the costal breathing style that he uses and how it differs from the typical “belly“ breathing that has been taught to many people who stutter over the generations; the mindfulness benefit that comes from monitoring our breathing throughout much of the day; the idea that befriending our stutter can be of great benefit (and then remembering that if we had a friend who stuttered we wouldn’t get mad at them every time they stutter so why do we get mad at ourself); Mike’s peer mentorship program and how everybody who joins goes out(together as a group over Zoom) to talk to random strangers and tell them that we stutter; the lack of stuttering awareness in the general population and the idea that a lot of non-stuttering people mistakenly seem to think that they understand stuttering because they think it is similar to their disfluent moments; how to advocate for ourselves and simultaneously be an advocate for stuttering education; and a whole lot more. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/JcQ1HVxv9p8