In case christmas week has been scaring you.. with all these social gatherings. Just know this. This is the biggest challenged we are faced with. The biggest challenge is going against the grain. What I mean by this is when your brain tells you one thing "dont talk, you will stutter", the ability to go against the grain and talk anyway. Ultimately you are choosing whether you want to give power to your stutter, causing you to hide away, repress, dilute your personality, live in fear. Or if you want to give power to your authentic self, causing you to open up, be vulnerable, courageous and confident. The more power you give your stutter by listening to it everytime is says "dont talk because you will stutter", the more pain you will ultimately be in. That is where the true pain is. The pain in stuttering is not in the stutter itself but from the person you become listening to that voice. Show your stutter who's boss. Do you regardless of how it comes out. I love ya