How to Overcome Stuttering in 10 Steps

Truly enjoy speaking interaction: https://www.freefromstutter.com/

Free From Stutter Facebook Group:   / freefromstutter  

How to Overcome Stuttering in 10 Steps: https://www.freefromstutter.com/overc...

Here is a recap of this video:

0:37 STEP #1: Check Your Goal

If your goal is to stop stuttering (probably a common one), it’s not a good one. Instead of thinking about what you want to avoid, start thinking about what you want to achieve.

Take a couple of minutes to write it down—and let me know! Leave a comment, and I’d be happy to give my feedback!

1:40 STEP #2: Embrace Learning Again

Stuttering feels mysterious because it seems like there’s nothing to learn. I can pronounce every sound. I can say anything, but… sometimes I can’t. It feels weird and strange to think about learning to speak when, technically, I know I can speak.

What should we learn then?

3:08 STEP #3: Feel the Rhythmical Structure

People who stutter can, in principle, say every word, every sound—but the rhythm of speech, the rhythmical structure of speech is distorted. The hand technique that I’ve been using myself as a person who stutters, and that I teach my students solves this rhythmical problem, first of all.

4:34 STEP #4: Learn to Relax

I always say that the hand technique isn’t quite a technique—it’s not about avoiding stuttering, but rather a foundation (you want to see it as a foundation) for speaking on your terms. Let’s call it training speech. And the training speech starts with the first sound. How you get to the first vowel sound in your phrase. Whether it’s already a block, tension, difficulty or not.

With the hand technique, the first sound becomes an anchor for a confident, calming, but assertive start.

5:55 STEP #5: Feel the Connections

The second fundamental of the training speech is feeling that airflow in a phrase from start to finish. The hand gives us a foundation to feel how we can go in a phrase from a vowel sound to the vowel sound with a continuous airflow.

7:07 STEP #6: Learn to Express

So fundamentals of the training speech 1 and 2 are the first sound (how you start the airflow) and connections (how you feel the airflow in the phrase). Now, we need to finish the phrase, to make the point. That is splitting and expression. Fundamentals 3 and 4. That’s it. That’s the whole training speech. You start, go with the phrase, you finish, make a point and you create space for a pause.

8:50 STEP #7: Learn to Deal with Fear

When I attended my speech therapy as a person who stutters back in the day I thought that after the intensive part of the program I would learn the hand technique, so I would learn how not to stutter. Yet, I realized that what we really want, what we really need, is to truly enjoy being in the spotlight.

11:34 STEP #8: Get Proactive

Let’s imagine a picture of a wolf chasing a rabbit. Seemingly, they do the same thing. They run. But for a rabbit, it’s pure stress, triggering a certain set of hormones, like adrenaline. For a wolf, it’s more of an excitement and a different set of hormones, like noradrenaline – a more goal-oriented hormone.

Let’s apply this analogy to our speaking. In one situation, you receive a phone call and you have to speak, you need to react and there’s panic in your eyes. In another situation, you proactively make a phone call using the training speech and recording yourself.

13:29 STEP #9: Learn to Deal with Shame

Stuttering feels like a bad thing. So we try to hide it. And it causes tension, anxiety - exactly the emotional state we want to change. Stuttering shame has many forms and dimensions, it’s a way bigger problem than you think. I would say this is the problem we need to solve.

A great way to solve it is embracing a new identity of a person who is learning a skill of self-expression.

15:16 STEP #10: Enjoy the Journey

Your progress is not measured by how many times you stuttered. It is measured by how many speaking experiences you created proactively where you were open, active and positive about it, not trying to be someone else. It’s a skill you can learn. It’s a muscle you can develop.

It is a beautiful journey of self-exploration, growth and creating new connections. Where you’re expanding your land, breaking the limitations that stuttering brings, feeling that stuttering is no longer stopping you or holding you back in your life. That’s what I call freedom from stuttering.

===========================================

**Click Below to SUBSCRIBE for More Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/c/Freefromstut...

=======================================

Free From Stutter
Your way to freedom from stuttering
http://www.freefromstutter.com

=======================================

   • How to Overcome Stuttering in 10 Steps