Becoming conscious of your thoughts and feelings is an incredibly important step. Often, we just feel the feeling (e.g. fear) and run before we are even fully aware why. It's hard to explain this in a few seconds but maybe this helps you: at the root of every single one of our feelings is a THOUGHT. Every thought leads to a FEELING. Every feeling leads to an ACTION. So if you notice a feeling, try to trace it back to that thought. Then look at the thought and think "Is this true? Is this helpful?" Let's say you are thinking "I will only be successful if I don't stutter". Is this true? How can you know that, you are not able to look into the future. And there are many extremely successful people with a stutter. But most importantly: is this helpful? Absolutely not because you can't control your stutter. Unfortunately there are a lot of hidden, habitual thoughts knocking about in our subconscious that sound like they want to keep us safe but are actually holding us back. Notice your feelings, trace them back to the thought that caused them and look at that thought. Our thoughts are not THE truth. They are just an opinion. Another really helpful question when looking at that thought is "Would my best friend say this to me?" Nope. Your best friend would want to encourage you, not bring you down. Don't beat yourself up about any of this. We all have unhelpful thoughts, just about different things. You are way ahead of most people if you start understanding the Think - Feel - Act cycle.