Becoming Our Own Best Advocate (Podcast episode)

Becoming Our Own Best Advocate (Podcast episode) Stutter with Confidence #61 with Anita Blom Becoming Our Own Best Advocate I really enjoyed this conversation with Swedish support group leader Anita. We discussed her life-changing discovery when she was 27 years old that there were support groups with other people who stutter; the idea that some portion of speech therapists have become much more effective in recent decades as they shift their focus away from fluency and towards acceptance; how things have been changing in the stuttering therapy world from just seeing the stutter to seeing one’s entire being; how Anita and I got the impression from many of our past speech therapists that if we weren’t making a ton of progress on our stuttering that it was our own fault because we supposedly were not working hard enough to implement the techniques they were teaching; the desperation/obsession that many of us have felt to be perceived as “normal” fluent speakers; using the world’s sometimes lowered expectations of us as motivation to achieve things; the vast improvement in quality of life when we divorce our stutter from our happiness; our experience that the world was much more excepting of our stutter than we thought it would be when we were younger; her experience of speaking in front of the European Parliament; and a lot more. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/eyrmUkkI2xc