Sorry. Feel you. I used to think stuttering also killed my life. Then I started to explore that reality, and what I learned was that stuttering killed living in flow. Living in flow is where the authenticity is tapped. As a voice actor, as a human engaging in people <> people relationships - being in flow is what my stutter was killing. My desired life target around my stutter shifted. I became obsessed with the question “why was I able to be in flow and other times not?” Once I shifted or let go of making the stutter the root cause of all things negative, I began to see how fear of putting myself is situations was stoping me. Fear of shame mainly, but fear of what if [xyz] happened. Exploring fear, and finding the concept of the CourageMuscle. The idea is - everyone’s default mode is that fear drives us. What if when we recognize something we’re fearful of we say a mantra out loud “ Fear Equals Opportunity.” And we recognize a way to dive into this fear. When we take intentional action we build another strand of our courage muscle 💪. Doing this, and even stating - “this is me flexing my CourageMuscle” before speaking as an example, changed everything for. From here I was able to make real progress in figuring out the quest for living in flow. I’m 47. It’s taken years on the journey. I’m proud to say I’ve conquered, or really, I’ve transcended my stutter. I still stutter, but it doesn’t stop me from loving, living and doing. I’m not living in flow all the time, even when my fluency is there. I have systems and life guidance frameworks that I depend on daily with the aim of keeping the flow (and often fluency( easily accessible. That led me to create whatsyourstutter.com to concretize this idea for me. Happy to share some of these concepts like EnergyFarming, StoryWatch and CourageMuscle which act tools on my tool belt on my daily quest for flow. Language is important. Stuttering has severely impacted your life. I’m hopeful it hasn’t killed it. #stutterersoftheworldunite