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1. There is such a thing as biological resiliency or simply having more biological likelihood of happiness. Two people can experience the exact same horrible event, but based in their biological re...

I was running every day & practiced conscious breathing throughout the day for about 2 weeks. It improved my stutter significantly...

“Take a breath” probably makes it worse, as it does for most people who get the suggestion by misinformed therapists of all kinds. (Unless you are a yogi master, your breath will be high and tight i...

Being comfortable with yourself as a person who stutters takes time and a lot of work. It isn't something that you can just "choose" to feel better about. I didn't really start to feel ok about mysel...

Current speech therapy practices for treating stuttering now focus on mindfulness, emotions, and taking that “path” toward the top of the mountain. Keep on mind, one person’s summit may be vastly dif...

Hey, I had a stutter when I was younger because of my insecurities,but regulated my life and basically worked out and ate healthy with the help of someone else. But with Covid I’ve become very unhealt...

I feel that doing meditation and breathing exercises consistently can have similar or better effect compared to these drugs, and with no dependency or side effects. However, one has to put lot of work...

I'm 19M. What I found really important was making sure my lungs were full with air before starting any conversation. I always spoke fast growing up and forgot to inhale. Causing me to make weird faces...

Talk on not letting the stutter define you, when you start stuttering, don’t say sorry. Let people know you have a stutter and you can repeat yourself, but keep from saying sorry as much as possible. ...

Almost no one can use “take a deep breath” in a moment of fear effectively. The scientifically sound practice is to start talking on a regular exhale and let your lungs modulate air pressure as you t...

I personally believe speech therapy and medication just mask the root cause. They don’t solve it. But it’s important to mention that for extreme cases, an alternated speech might be help to get starte...

Don’t give up that positivity. It’s a great step already to talk about it. That always helps. I guess everyone has their ups and downs, partly depending on your general mental state, influenced by the...

Setbacks are hard. Especially since we develop negative thought patterns towards stuttering in our childhood, and it's a big task to reverse that thinking. I try to reflect on how far I have come in ...

Breathing. Focus on your breathing. That doesn't mean you need to slow down but when you really focus on calming your nerves and coming from a place of peace it makes it easier to accept when a block ...

To sum up. Again, I agree with you. Breathing doesn’t solve the issue. But there’s some evidence that it helps with MORE fluent speech. And it helps me most of the time when I refocus and breath slowl...

We're not sure what causes stuttering, but something between genetics, neurology, and motor function is miscoordinated. Blocking or other avoidance are what comes from fear/embarrassment/desire not to...

I know where you’re coming from. And I agree, stuttering is almost exclusively caused by the fear/ anticipation of it. However, it seems a lot of stutterers benefit from these kinds of breathing exerc...

Interesting that it still works when it makes you light headed. Light-headedness comes from an increase in oxygen in your body but a decrease in carbon. Since carbon is necessary to get the oxygen to ...

You GOT this. A few things that always (and still) help me: 1. Practice infront of a mirror and/or with of family and friends as an audience. It will allow you to know what sounds you’ll be saying, t...

Hey :). This is what I’m always yapping on about - nice to see it from a specialist. Since we get soooo many posts mentioning breathing, any chance you could do a mod thing where this automatically p...