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Big presentation coming up, need tips

Big presentation coming up, need tips Hey all, I have to do a 20 minute presentation for school on a project I’m doing. Its in about a month and a half, its on zoom so I can read off a script and I’m ...

I cured my anxiety and fear of public speaking with a grounding technique shared in the Facebook group “Anxiety Relief/Support - Perpetual Grounding” [Grounding Technique ](https://www.facebook.com/gr...

Maybe add some psychological things too. Tell yourself a loud twenty times that you're confident in your speech and you speak fluent automatically. Or something similar. Or close your eyes and I pictu...

For me meditation and/or breathing exercise (like the one by Wim Hof) helps. For important meetings/presentations, I take 'very' small dose of beta-blocker, combined with meditation to conjure a zen-l...

Hit the gym. When you see improvements on yourself it will feel great and you'll get addicted to it. It helped me with self esteem. About social anxiety try to socialize, like joining a club or a band...

How to control fear/anxiety while speaking? Breathing exercise?

How to control fear/anxiety while speaking? Breathing exercise? What I think about myself is that I can reduce my stammering when I become more calm/normal while speaking to stranger. At this point of...

What are some fluency tips/tricks you’ve learned along the way?

What are some fluency tips/tricks you’ve learned along the way? There clearly isn’t a cure, but I think that we all know a few tips and tricks that (sometimes) help us be fluent. One that I learned ...

I used to struggle with this big time and sometimes now as well. This would work for me. Lie down - hand on tummy - inhale into tummy - exhale slowly and start an aah sound as you exhale. Slowly and ...

How I Became Fluent

How I Became Fluent A fellow member asked me about my experience so I thought I'd share it with everyone. Perhaps someone can take something from it. *** This is MY experience, it may or may not wor...

Sorry for your loss.I completely relate with everything that you said,I’m at similar place in life right now.I would give the same advice to young people to really fail forward and use it as fuel.You ...

Agree with this. Years of speech therapy did mostly nothing for me. Regular ‘Therapy’ was and is more beneficial for me....

Same to me bro now the seventh month and still not an improvement, now I am not going anymore, now I am visiting a psychologist I think it is helping me a lot in self-confidence...

Lack of sleep affects my speech a lot. Mindfulness meditation and/or breathing practice for 5-10 minutes right before meetings/speaking engagements helps quite a bit. In a long run, if I keep on speak...

My stammer surfaces usually in the middle of a sentence I am trying to say. My go to technique to get through it is to just restart the whole sentence and kind of speed through the part of the sentenc...

Glad to hear that you've had positive results with this. Saying that you stutter at the beginning gives you the upper hand. It's like you took the power and strength that not admitting had over you. ...

Practice and dots in your speech so you know when to pause for a breathe. That’s helped me. Good luck!...

Hi my love, First of all, don’t worry. Whether you stutter or not, I’m so proud of you already. :) This is what I do to manage my stutter. Sometimes I deliver the whole thing without stuttering or ...

Have you tried doing a breathing / relaxing excersise the moment you wake up? It may be worth to set your alarm clock ten minutes orso earlier....

A book I read that I found really helpful was "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Branch. If you look over some of the more hippie-ish undertones, the actual messages are very good....

First of all, know that you are COURAGEOUS!!! I am in the same boat. Since Covid, I was removed from all human interaction and placed at home working remotely through Zoom and Teams. I give 3 to 5...