"I think the program that I went through did build resilience against stutter triggers." -> if true what you say, then why bother convincing yourself with positive statement about your trigger? If you really learned resilience then the result is: the trigger is in your mind but you truly don't care that it's there so you don't do the compulsion. But if you have to take the effort to convince that the trigger is not true into making it positive, then the trigger is clearly bothering you and that can only mean that you made the trigger REAL in your mind. -> can I ask, how did you learn to build resilience against the trigger (that causes your stutter expectation) in therapy?