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I had a lot of gut issues which constipation, fatigue, narcolepsy, insomnia, OCD, social anxiety. I had to do some radical diet changes and ended up eliminated a lot of what I suspect was old fecal matter after 3 months. Although I don't have medical scans to prove it, I'm very confident my GI tract was very enlarged and very stiff, as it was getting hard to inhale longer than 1 second without discomfort because that area was so congested. I noticed improvements in my health. Then I added juicing into the mix, began drinking 16oz to 32 oz a day and saw some drastic improvements with regards to health and fluency. It felt like space opened up in my gut. I could breath deeper, my diaphragm could push down lower into my gut without resistance. I also learned diaphragmatic breathing, which is amazing once it clicks. I'm now able to 'breath through the gut' for the first time. It feels totally different than chest breathing (like radically different - in a good way!). Diaphragmatic breathing helps me connect to my body more, like I'm opening up new neural pathways that connect my brain to my body. I feel present in my body and it feels really good. A lot of communication comes through via body language/posturing. So I theorize it makes fluency easier the more present you are in your body. I know my unique situation is very related to diet because if I eat pizza or food that binds me up, my stuttering comes back hard. For example last week I ate a whole pizza and my stuttering came back. I had to eat high fiber vegan diet for like 10 days in order to get the fluency state back again. The last 9 days were pretty rough in terms of stuttering, but last night within the course of a few hours I regained my fluency again (at least partially, there's levels to fluency). For emotional healing stuff, it was a bit difficult to put into a step by step formula. The process just unfolded as I was doing gut healing. As my health was slowly returning, I started feeling emotions again, then crying out deep emotions that I had held for a long time. A lot of childhood trauma shit...That shit is real, even if you had a relatively stable upbringing. Really dark stuff, suppressed childhood emotions of not being loved/my pain being seen. Cannabis/cbd helped me by allowing me to experience some childhood traumas come up to the surface and feel deeply into them while at the same time practicing unconditional love for myself and being totally present with the hurt. One of the biggest fears I found out I had was a deep fear of being authentic, showing my real self to people for fear of judgement, punishment, or abandonment. Some self-love practices have helped me too. Simply looking into the mirror, looking deeply into my eyes and saying "I love you [insert name]" over and over again. I felt immense repulsion when first starting this, which made me realize how little I really love myself and how far I am from where I would like to be and spurned me to practice more self love. Here's one of my [favorite techniques](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkpngb0jFAI&ab_channel=TheDetoxDudes), but youtube is full of videos on self help/self love. I'm still working on the diet stuff. It's a theory in progress. But there's such a strong correlation that I can't deny it at all. I don't know for what percentage of people my solution would work for. It could be a very small percentage of people. Plus it's a lot to ask people to make a radical lifestyle change. I wouldn't have done it unless I was forced to by health issues.