This isn't a quick-fix post; it's just something I learnt in speech therapy that worked for me (after years of practice), and I wonder if anyone else has heard of it.

This isn't a quick-fix post; it's just something I learnt in speech therapy that worked for me (after years of practice), and I wonder if anyone else has heard of it. I've commented on this a few times over the years on this subreddit but never made a post about it. Anyway, something that I learnt in speech therapy as an adult (20 at the time) was softening consonants. I'm wondering if anyone else has learnt this. Like, for example, the /k/ in "cat". Instead of a hard /k/ that fluent speakers use, I was taught to soften it to prevent my vocal cords from spasming. As I mentioned in the title, this isn't a quick fix, as it only works with these specific consonants. It won't help with vowels or consonants that are already soft, but it helped me gain a little bit of fluency, which in turn helped me gain more fluency. I still stutter, but 25 years after learning this, I have gained a level of fluency that many people don't really notice until I tell them (or if I speak for long enough, I have a bad episode).