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Wedding Speech Nerves I was asked to give a speech at a relative's wedding this weekend gone by. It was one of those things that I couldn't refuse as it was with other people and I stupidly said before that I was fine with it. The speech itself went OK - I stumbled a couple of times but the adrenaline pushed me through it. I got decent feedback on it as well and everyone seemed to like it which was nice! My main issue is the 2 weeks leading up to the speech. I don't think I've ever been more of a nervous wreck in my life. I could barely eat, barely sleep and I always had this knot in my stomach to the extent that multiple times I felt like I was going to pass out. It was like that knot you get where you're going round the room and it's coming to you but I had that for 2 weeks straight. The worst thing was that I knew that nerves always made my stutter worse so I imagined various scenarios of it going horribly wrong which didn't help. Does anyone else sometimes think that the nerves of a potential stutter is even worse than the process of stuttering itself? There is no way that I want to go through that again and for some reason I seem to continue having that knot in my stomach. Also had a massive headache after which shows how much it took out of me.