F Stuttering Experiment - Who's In?

F Stuttering Experiment - Who's In? I’m 47. I knew I was different at 5. I remember calling it stuttering by age 6. I know the struggle and it’s real, it hits deep and no one else can understand what it’s like to be me or you. Fellow stutterers, we have a unique life bond - IYKYK. Speech therapy never worked for me, until it did, which was about 15 years after a summer intensive in Boston when I was 22. A few things I learned along the way ​ * I used to make my stutter the cause for everything negative in my life. * The default mode for every human (not just stutterers) is for fear and staying “safe” to drive us. * The goal is not to never stutter. The goal is to transcend stuttering so that stuttering doesn’t stop me from doing and being me, even if I still stutter, which I do when I’m exhausted. * You’ll be amazed by what you learn about yourself when you apply focused self-awareness and peel back your stuttering from being a core driver and reason for why your life is like “this.” * Experiments are good. The younger you do this, the more life you live. I would have benefitted from this, and so, I’m passing it along. ### Self-awareness Stuttering EXPERIMENT: ​ * Commit to doing this for 3 days * Have a designated place to journal ​ 1. Let go of blaming your stutter for anything negative in your life. When you recognize a thought that thats’ what you’re doing, get it out of your head and record it in a designated notebook (digital or real). 2. Since you’re no longer blaming your stutter, define what's causing your thoughts of negativity. For me I often label it “SHAME.” So you can say “the feeling of shame is what’s stopping me.” 3. Grow your CourageMuscle: Recognize when fear comes up and stops you, then say out loud: “FEAR EQUALS OPPORTUNITY.” * Record what you’re fearful of. * Identify what action you can do to dive into that fear * Record the date you did it. You just grew another strand of your Courage Muscle. The aim for this experiment is to peel back our stutter and understand how our fears stop us. This is a way to take back our power of self from our stutter. Let me know if you have any questions or learnings you find. ​ \#StutterersOfTheWorldUnite