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What does everything about this website? **A blog that I found with many unique takes on stuttering.** [https://understandingdysfluency.com/](https://understandingdysfluency.com/) ​ His accompany free e-book: [https://understandingdysfluency.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/revolutionizing-how-we-understand-and-treat-stuttering.pdf](https://understandingdysfluency.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/revolutionizing-how-we-understand-and-treat-stuttering.pdf) ​ Some particularly interesting articles: ​ [https://understandingdysfluency.com/2016/04/08/a-fresh-look-at-environments-role-in-stuttering/](https://understandingdysfluency.com/2016/04/08/a-fresh-look-at-environments-role-in-stuttering/) [https://understandingdysfluency.com/2017/03/26/stuttering-a-significant-illumination-through-human-connection-abandonment-social-anxiety-ostracism-shame-approval-rejection-trauma-speech-motor-movements/](https://understandingdysfluency.com/2017/03/26/stuttering-a-significant-illumination-through-human-connection-abandonment-social-anxiety-ostracism-shame-approval-rejection-trauma-speech-motor-movements/) [https://understandingdysfluency.com/2017/03/26/stuttering-a-significant-illumination-through-human-connection-abandonment-social-anxiety-ostracism-shame-approval-rejection-trauma-speech-motor-movements/](https://understandingdysfluency.com/2017/03/26/stuttering-a-significant-illumination-through-human-connection-abandonment-social-anxiety-ostracism-shame-approval-rejection-trauma-speech-motor-movements/) ​ Here is one paragraph that stood out to me (among others): *In looking towards treatment, intense cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to reframe the fear of rejection and abandonment (ultimately a fear of death) would yield positive outcomes. In conjunction with CBT, a disciplined, consistent practice of mindfulness and meditation would likely lay groundwork to reverse/diminish anxiety and shame. Both of these elements of treatment would require intensity over a long period of time to achieve lasting and impactful results. In addition, EMDR (eye movement desensitization & reprocessing) could be utilized to reprocess powerful experiences of social rejection and/or humiliation due to stuttering. Other treatment options exist. An effect of working through the underlying fears would firstly be relief from the pervasive amount of anxiety in one’s life. In addition, an effect would likely be improved fluency as one would not enter into the fight/flight/freeze state as often. This work would also likely lay a foundation to achieve better outcomes with treatments designed directly to improve the fluency of speech.*