Hi. You're describing costal breathing, yes? What happened to you is common. It works. You feel great for a couple of months; life is very different, almost like a new life. Then you don't want to/think you need to practice anymore. (Or, for some people, other things in life just take over and they cannot keep up.) Then you're speech starts getting more stuttery again, and all the awful accompanying feelings come back, but in some ways worse, because, as you say, you're supposed to be "cured" now. Well, you do not say "cured" because you know it's not that. But, in a sense, people who don't fully understand see it that way. Or, maybe even worse, as a moral failing of some sort: "you're not taking it seriously anymore." It sucks. I do not stutter myself. I happen to know a little more than many who don't stutter because thru a few friends who do stutter, I ended up doing a lot of reading, research. Also, this is hard to put into words, but I have an affinity for things that the rest of the world do not take seriously, but are very serious to the person who is living with the thing. This is often (not always, as you'll hear from some very confident people on this sub), dramatically true with stuttering, right. Anyway, from what I've read, most people, IF they do want to use the techniques you've described, and things have slipped away like they have with you, must go back and do a refresher course of some sort. I know McGuire offers them for free or significantly less than for the first-time course. I'm not sure if you did McGuire tho, since you said it was a ten day program? Listen, you already know there is a lot of debate among stutterers about using techniques at all. I am not advocating one way or another. I do not feel it is respectful to tell another person what is best for them. But, with this technique and some others (tho my feeling is costal breath techniques are somewhat more effective in being able to keep up long term; the others just seem too difficult; too unnatural; but that's just my non-scientific opinion; haven't done any studies, ha) -- with this technique, especially for a good long time in the beginning, if you do not do the exercises, yeah, your speech will start to revert. And even with the people who have done the breathing technique for so long that the sound almost fluent, I know they still practice every day (or, you know, with the usual life exceptions, but essentially every day). I'm sure some people have done it, but for some reason, it seems like just picking up the practice again is often not enough. It seems most have to go back to whatever course they took and sort of redo it. Maybe you'll want to do that at some point? Or maybe not. Of course you could try going back to the daily practice and see what happens. You know, it seems fairly common what happened to you, that people, for whatever reason, don't do the practice anymore. It's like...human nature. This is, after all, a kind of unnatural thing you're doing. For many it becomes so habitual that it comes to feel natural, but it's not actually, is it. I'm most familiar with the McGuire program. For many who have success with it, it took two times. They "take it seriously" the second time, as your mother would say (I'm sorry she put it that way; that didn't help; it's hard for people to see the whole picture, you know? And parents just want their kids to be "better," sometimes without understanding the nuances....). But, it could be it's just not for you. I don't know.... Maybe you don't know yet. You're still so young, even though it probably doesn't feel like it. But your feelings about all this *will* change again, your perspective will change. I don't know in what ways, but it definitely will. A path will emerge. I am not just saying this, OP. I feel it from what you've written here.