Fears & Anxieties with Stuttering - Explained

Fears & Anxieties with Stuttering - Explained I've been asked a few times to highlight how to deal with anxieties you develop through stuttering. To highlight ways to manage the fears we have and move forward. All of which I'm saying comes from personal experience - from having a severe stutter as a child/teenager to have overcome my stutter as an adult. Hope this provides some insight for you. To start, we have to realise that these fears/anxieties we have are real. Regardless of where they stem from or that "they're in our head". The truth is they're stopping you from doing everything you want to do and becoming the best version of yourself. Failing to acknowledge that these anxieties are present will make you suffer. We have to know they're there - so it gives us something to work with. I can tell you right now that there's many ways to manage your anxieties & fears. Too often people get confused by the information that's out there and it stops people in their tracks. A lot of people go so far as to see they're there - but do nothing about them. For me personally, I want any anxieties of mine to be gone. Not to linger around. Which is why I'm proactive about dealing with my issues. Which brings me to my next point about commitment. We have to be committed to changing our thinking and life for the better. Committed to going out of our comfort zone, regardless of how difficult it will be, to improve. Anything that you try has to be done with the long term in mind. It's rare that you'll find a quick fix for these things. So please be patient. Then, after you've committed to this, you do something about it. This is something that people get twisted. The only way to do something about your anxieties is to actually do something about it. Do work. Implement the changes. The only way anything gets done is when you do something. One way is to lower your expectations greatly. We all give ourselves high expectations to succeed. When we fall short of the mental image we have of ourselves, it's easy to beat ourselves up about it. We need to start celebrating the smaller successes we have! Enjoy the incremental progress we make. Remember, this is a life long process. I talk about it in a recent video I made but I wanted to offer some thoughts on what you can do today to START. Starting matters. Anyway here's the full video for anybody who's interested. Would be cool to hear your thoughts on all of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSxNAJnRxO4