This! In my opinion stutterers have become too relient on negatively pre-evaluation (like anticipatory anxiety) and post-evaluating. So I agree in that either we should: * stop focusing on the bad experience i.e. "See? I can't breathe out during a block." - **basically stopping or reframing** * or learn to live with the bad experience. Even if we think and feel the bad experience, we should breathe out during a block regardless - **basically not stopping and not reframing but being aware of the bad experience to become tolerant and learn from successes that bad experiences are less probable than you initially thought** Forgiveness also means to allow mistakes (i.e. speech blocks). See it like a game. Suppose a 3-years old plays a jigsaw puzzle and 10x times he tried out the wrong puzzle piece (aka mistake), then he won't see the mistake as a problem or disorder. If we forgive our speech mistakes in the same way we could reduce (or stop) stuttering