>Now it's even harder for me to speak, I have longer blocks and more frequent repetitions. I agree, it's the same with me I'm also reading in books how to deal with speech blocks and frequent repetitions. According to this free [book](https://www.freestutteringbooks.com/uploads/3/2/1/1/32111425/dr._bob_bodenhamer.pdf) by Bodenhammer, a block is similar to a panic attack that changes your breathing or (speech) muscles. So, the book states, that stutterers can approach blocks and repetitions in a similar way as panic attacks: * Analyze your stuttering: What emotions are behind and within my blocking and repetition? Where in my body do I feel these emotions? Where in my body do I feel the fear and anxiety as I anticipate the possibility of blocking? What do I feel about these feelings? * Analyze your stuttering beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings and behavior versus a non-stutterer * Reinforce your non-blocking mentality (instead of your stuttering mentality). PWS already have a non-blocking mentality, i.e. when voiceless mouthing 'sentences' there is no problem with moving articulators (page 12) * Foster a healthy belief system * Experience self-acceptance and love * Intention sends your mind or directional-izes your mind to the created **meanings** of your concepts of Self, Power, Time, Others and World (page 15) * When a person who blocks anticipates an upcoming conversation, she may fear that she will block based on past experiences (Time Matrix). But, she does not want to repeat the past behavior of blocking (Intention Matrix) due to all the negative **meanings** that she has associated with blocking (**Meaning** Matrix). These **meanings** find expression in the other matrices such as, “I don’t want to appear like I am a weirdo because I block” (Self Matrix). Or, “I am powerless to overcome this” (Power Matrix). In my opinion, the term '**meaning**' is incorrectly used here, rather acknowledge (say: accept) the **meaning** of stopping one's breathe/articulation during a block.