Nice post! I've been trying to tell people this very thing for a while now. I like how the article mentions Claire Weekes. I've read her books and know her work quite well. I ended up in a accute panic disorder back in 2019 - which was the most horrendous part of my whole life. I ended up coming across her books, and through her work I discovered the truth behind panic/anxiety and it gave me courage to face panic - which then cured me in 1 evening by choosing to absolute allow the panic to do all the bad stuff it was promising me. I could go really deep on this subject, but I won't do that right now. Claire Weekes will forever be a hero in my eyes. Her books saved me before it was too late. Literally. And a lot of her work regarding anxiety, fear, panic can be applied to daily life stuff. You'll come to realize how anxious and fearful we are in daily life in general... Sidenote: some people tend to use the word panic, without actually being real panic - the one where you feel you're literally about to die and/or go insane any second. The one where you feel you need to go to the hospital *right now.* The same type of panic you'd feel when suddenly face to face with a bear or whatever. It did lead me to have all sorts of other realizations about my stutter, as well as what you said here: >A stutter anticipation thought arises ----> I panic ----> I automatically react to inhibit that thought by trying to so hard to get the words out smoothly----> manifests as a block When I decided to face my fear of "others hearing me stutter," and allowed myself to stutter freely, the blocks completely disappeared. I still stuttered, but no more blocking. Blocking was a huge part of how I spoke back then. But it was all due to resistance. Resisting the idea that others might hear me stutter and what they might think. When I dropped that fear, the stuttering even became less. All that now remains, is a speech pattern, like an accent. Let's say you have a British accent, and you move to the US. It can take many years to relearn a new accent - a new way of speaking - *IF* you put in the work. Otherwise you'll still keep the accent. If I focus and put the energy in the right place, I can speak quite fluently. But in some situations, fear can still creep up, and this is where resistance comes back in. >Neither celebrate fluency nor fight stuttering. Forget progress bar. >Putting fluency on a pedestal and the strong desperation for fluency prevented me from being in the present moment and connecting all my life. Truth's. Thanks for your post.