(Disclaimer that I don’t have a stutter and am only speaking from my perspective as a current SLP grad student, so feel free to tell me to get lost!) This is great advice OP, it seems to be this paradoxical cycle for most people, where worrying about your fluency will make you less fluent. Many SLPs encourage pseudo-stuttering on purpose for that reason. I will recommend anyone to check out the book Advice to Those Who Stutter, which is free in it’s entirety [right here](https://www.stutteringhelp.org/Portals/English/book0009_may2010.pdf) **The best part is that each chapter is written by an SLP who stutters themselves** and it results in a combination of some really good clinical and personal advice. The main take aways I got from it: 1) Every single person experiences normal instances of disfluency, so try not to think of yourself as a “stutterer”, and others as “non-stutterers”. 2) Allow yourself to acknowledge even partial successes. A stutter at 50% tension is better than one at 100%, no? If you try a fluency method or technique and it doesn’t work flawlessly, but you can tell it helps you to manage it, run with that. 3) THE MOST IMPORTANT IMO: If you really want to “get rid of it” (ie. be as consistently fluent as possible) you will absolutely have to accept and commit to the fact that you will need to make yourself uncomfortable. This means pseudo-stutters around increasingly more high-anxiety situations/people, deciding in the moment that you will not allow avoidance behaviors: every single time the opportunity presents itself, put yourself in that feared social situation anyway, even if it’s the last thing you want to do. Don’t just endure it but welcome it as a challenge to practice your new techniques. You need to experience yourself performing fluency even in your most dreaded scenarios. And you will if you keep practicing in them. But you gotta be there and do it. Repeatedly. Keep #2 very much in mind while you do this. The book is really great and accessible, each SLP/PWS contributes a little something different. Which is great because different techniques work for different folks.