>Are you saying your head pain is related somehow to your stuttering? Yes, I experience that I stop '*instructing to execute speech movements*' in order to temporarily reduce this mind-body sympathetic headache (which causes a block). Now, one month later, I still feel a light headache sometimes, but it's much less due to mindfulness. Whenever I feel the headache at this moment of time, I apply this strategy: * I tell myself: 'stop hurting myself' (and this usually dissipates the headache) * or, I tell myself: 'I will ONLY make speech mistakes' so don't be on guard, don't scan, don't anticipate, don't evaluate, just instruct motor movements. This also helps to alleviate this mind-body headache * if I tell myself "choose to be a non-stutterer" this headache reduces also