I agree that light contacts works! I have a hard time saying ‘pathology’. So I know light contacts is the only way I can get this word out. But my habit of trying to go hard on that ‘pa’ is ingrained in my brain and so when I try and say it using light contact, it feels wrong saying it with light contact when I’m facing someone. Like my brain thinks it feels wrong and that the other person will judge me because MY perception of it is that my mouth is moving not normally when I do light contact. But actually when I look into the mirror, I look normal. So I can say it when someone doesn’t look at my mouth (not facing in front of me). Because of the habit of my lips pressing hard on the ‘pa’ is so ingrained.. should I just look at someone directly and move my articulators? Practice light contact with pathology? Again I’m holding myself back and the whole forward flow is probably what I need to focus on? Edit also, I just realised I tend to hesitate before saying a word that I stutter on and I realised that I tend to stretch the word before a word I find hard to say. For example, if I say, ‘are you interested in pathology?’ — I would stretch out ‘in’ and have a slight pause/hesitation in saying ‘pathology’. It’s like the pause is for my mouth prepping itself to say the feared word.. and that this whole process makes my mouth uncomfortable. And removing the pause/hesitation improves my stutter.