Yep. Inherently through complex trauma, we will go through different situations that imprint feelings of shame. School children who stutter in school. Adolescence is the biggest one, there are numerous events during these times relating to stuttering (and not), which can hugely impact how we view ourselves into adulthood. Even if consciously we don’t think these situations impact us, subconsciously they very much do. I guess my point is, even consciously trying to accept yourself to push away the shame you feel about stuttering, is a much longer way of going about this process. Going directly to shame and working with it first is so much easier. Trying to force acceptance consciously to push away shame will just create further internal conflict. By working with the fundamental subconscious shame from our past experiences and how that impacts our core beliefs about ourselves we will see that acceptance of our stutter actually comes naturally without much effort. I could talk about shame for hours, but there are a lot of experts who dedicate their lives to exploring it and ways to heal. [There’s this video of Dr. Peter Levine explaining shame](https://youtu.be/SeucbAfy0WY?si=oDtWYxSlHvCrtVPB) [Also this one of Dr. Gabor Mate and Dr. Richard Schwartz discussing the cycle shame which is really good. It’s related to addiction but in a lot of stutterers cases it’s the avoidance which because the drug of choice](https://youtu.be/R17ZqgnqiAU?si=uClQwjVLCNz1VtYM)