>*"How do i stop feeling the blockage on my throat when i speak. i feel the block in my throat and it’s just so hard for me to spit the word out. i felt so embarrassed after and felt like i’m not good enough to pursue my dreams. idk how to improve the way i speak, the feeling of the blockage always hunt me"* Often we know or feel that we will block e.g., an anticipation feeling in the throat. After all, we have associated anticipatory fear with such body sensations. You can watch these [YT videos](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anticipatory+anxiety). And use these [worksheets](https://www.google.com/search?q=anticipatory+anxiety+worksheet) yourself (self-therapy) or with a therapist, to deal with your anticipatory anxiety. In a new [research](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7213478/) study, researchers succeeded in eliciting a near-equal distribution of unambiguously stuttered and fluent utterances during the production of single words by leveraging stuttering anticipation. This could highlight the importance of approaching anticipatory anxiety to reduce disruptions in the forward flow of speech. Therapists and psychologists who specialize in anticipatory fear, may give you different exercises, such as: * Focus on the throat (or other body sensations) that anticipate your speech block - without trying to reduce this feeling. Just mindfully be with it and learn that the anticipation feeling is not dangerous, that you are safe, aim for removing the meaning of this sensation that you associated with it * Accepting anticipatory feelings and thoughts by acknowledging they exist in your mind, and letting go of them by keeping them in your mind and body whilst moving your attention away to calm breathing