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Stammering - what I believe it is. Ok, I’m someone who stammered for 28-30 years and I experienced everything people on here experienced. Now it doesn’t show up in my life too much at all. I am much happier, much more confident and much more content with where I am in life. I was never content and though people may say stammering doesn’t define you, it defined me as a person. 100%. I improved hugely at this by working with John Harrison on Skype. Many people will know his book and his work - for me, it was a lifesaver. He told me what this was all about. This was massively different from what I had been told. John worked with me for FREE! Something I have told countless other people but NO ONE has approached him! Something I find staggering. Anyway, this is an issue largely built around how small we see ourselves in the world and the things we do to maintain this. There are other things involved, but this is a big part of it and something I worked on lots and lots. We turn our volume down, we shrink ourselves to fit in. And all the while we shrink ourselves out of reality. Our perceptions are usually bang wrong - what we feel sounds odd, indifferent or bad actually sounds normal and we need to experiment and see what works. How do we do this? Public speaking groups. A safe place to experiment. People are usually TOO praising of you! No one judges. You can learn massively. Experiment with volume, expression, pausing etc. You start to enjoy speaking. There’s a lot more to this but my son is playing football soon. Happy to help anyone who is serious about this. Zero charge. This isn’t impossible no matter how old or how hard you’ve tried. Read his book anyway. It’s free online.