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January 19, 2021 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Hello Everyone, I’m Shubham, Here to share my experiences after becoming a PWSS #28706
JavierModeratorHi Shubham,
thanks for sharing your story with us, and for the lovely comments about us!!
Stories liek yours is why we do this. You’re a living proof of that stuttering can be stopped!!
I’ve watched many of your coaching sessions with Lee and Prathusha, and it’s amazing how much you’ve improved and how good your speech is. I really enjoyed your speech in the SAM meeting. It was a very good example of how to speak passionately.
Hope to see you in the upcoming SAM meetings!!JavierModeratorHi Mirko,
as you said, using the Crutches as much as you can will surely help you. Use them even when you don’t need them. This is how you acquire the habit of speaking using the Crutches. As you know, the Crutches help us stop thinking words (and planning stutters) when we speak, because we’re focused on using the Crutches. Once we get used to using them when we speak, we will have gotten used to speak without thinking words. This is how will stop feeling like that.
The Auto-Suggestions (or self hypnosis) and reading aloud will make this process easier.JavierModeratorHi Jennifer. Gábor is right here. One of these days it should be released. Anyway, if you’re a stuttering member, you can watch many coaching sessions (in the Video section of this website) and use the filters: “Crutches overview”, “Crutch 1”, “crutch 2”, etc. In the video course of the Stuttering book there are several lessons that focus on the Crutches too (Lessons 4 to 9).
If you need further assistance, don’t hesitate to contact me (I’m a PWSS and one of the Certified Speech Coaches, by the way): [email protected]January 13, 2021 at 8:00 am in reply to: How relaxed have you gotten yourself using hypnoses? #28658JavierModeratorThat’s the one I was referring to. Glad you found it helpful 🙂
January 12, 2021 at 2:18 pm in reply to: How relaxed have you gotten yourself using hypnoses? #28647JavierModeratorHi John. Exactly. It’s a matter of patience. Give it time. Try to get as relaxed as you can. This is extremely important. Have you watched some of the latest videos of coaching sessions by Prathusha. She explains relaxation extremely well.
January 12, 2021 at 10:15 am in reply to: How relaxed have you gotten yourself using hypnoses? #28645JavierModeratorHi Clifton. I’ve been doing SH for a year or maybe more. And I’ve learnt how to do it thanks to Melvin Power’s book too. The thing is that I think I’ve never been able to get past a 3 or so, probably (anyway, I don’t know how to grade it, so I’ve probably gone further; I don’t know if this makes sense).
But in any case, I feel it helps me a lot, and I find it more effective than ASTs, although I still do them too.
From the first time I began doing self-hypnosis, until the moment I began to feel the effects, it might have taken 2 or 3 weeks. So we must be patient and keep on doing it. Even if we’re not sure we’re doing it right (if so, this is the place to ask!). We have to keep on doing it, we will start feeling the effects sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time.JavierModeratorHi Mirko! I’ve heard you speak in the SAM meetings, and, honestly, I’ve never detected any bad incidents, as we define them: clearly appearing speech disabled. So that’s definitely something good.
As you said, we will never be perfect, nobody will ever be, but we can give our best to continue improving.
Mirko, since I’ve never seen you stutter, I can’t give you any specific advice, but as you’ll surely know by now, speaking like a King will always elevate our speech. Using other Crutches, like Crutches 8, 9 or 10 will also help. Speaking more slowly will always make the use of the Crutches a lot easier.
Self hypnosis, in my case, has also helped me a lot, especially dealing with pressured situations and anxiety.
Reading aloud is also a great help. If you feel more nervous than usual, try reading passionately, using the Crutches, for 30-60 minutes and do an AST/SHT. This helps a lot.
And of course, we must always be a Speech Cop and make sure we won’t allow ourselves to force words.As you might know, Mirko, if you’re a Stuttering member of WSSA, you can ask for your 3 free coaching sessions with any of us, the Coaches.
Feel free to ask us anything! Have a great day
JavierModeratorHi Greg. I’m glad to see that you enjoyed the last SAM meeting. Please do come to as many SAM meetings as you can, you can learn a lot from these, and I find them incredibly motivating.
As Leah suggested, once you finish the book, if you become a member of WSSA, you should start the video courses of the book and the Crutches. They will help you immensely. And of course, the 3 free coaching sessions are also of great help 🙂See you next Saturday!!!
January 8, 2021 at 6:22 pm in reply to: For those thinkin stuttering is a habit…is blindness deafness dyselexia habits #28620JavierModeratorVery well said. I’ve read Doidge’s book too, and I found it amazing. If those people, with much worse problems than those of PWS have been able to overcome them, or almost, we can definitely stop stuttering, as many of us have proved, and many others are proving month after month.
JavierModeratorHi Greg! Welcome to WSSA! My name is Javier, and I’m one of the Certified Coaches of WSSA, and a PWSS. About when does the SAM meetings, they start, from now on, at 15:00h UK time. Hope to see you there!
JavierModeratorExactly, if something isn’t working for you, you should probably make sure you’re using it correctly. If you’re not doing it right, you can either try to learn to use it correctly or, try something else.
January 4, 2021 at 9:06 am in reply to: Why is so important to classify ow bad stuttering is??? #28593JavierModeratorAdam, I am not a speech pathologist or anything like that. I’m a PWSS who studied Economics actually. Probably the medical community has more specific terms to define it. But I’m not here for the semantics. Call it how you want. I’m sure you got my point. PWS stutter in various ways, some more frequently, some less, some in more intense/clear/evident ways than others.
Anyone who talked to me for two minutes would have clearly see that I had a speech problem. On the other hand, this friend of mine who was a covert stutterer, very few people knew that the stuttered. We were classmates in university, so I met with him almost every day, and I didn’t know that he was a PWS until he told me, months later after we first met.JavierModeratorThere’s a difference between being deaf or blind and being a stutterer, Adam. The first two have that disability all the time. Stutterers (or at least 99% of them) can speak fluently in some situations (when alone, when singing…). This is a big difference, isn’t it? So why does this happen. Because when we’re under pressure, fear stuttering, so we plan our words, and when we do that, we also plan our stutters. I’m sure you don’t do that when you’re singing or when you’re speaking to yourself, alone, am I right? All the people who I’ve coached so far have agreed with me on this.
JavierModeratorI fully agree with Prathusha. I would also like to add that when we stutter, we normally feel ashamed, humiliated…. we definitely don’t feel good. It’s extremely unpleasant. So the way I see it, someone who stutters when they speak, they can’t get to enjoy it, as long as they keep on stuttering. At least that has been my experience.
But as soon as our speech begins to improve and become smoother and more fluent, we begin to enjoy it more and more.
When we stop stuttering (become PWSS), at the beginning we will still be feeling fears and pressure, so because of this, we might still not enjoy speaking as much as we’d like to, but, just like before, as the fears and anxiety start to disappear, our love for speaking will increase.JavierModeratorThat’s fantastic! In that case, I look forward to hearing about your progress!
Feel free to ask any questions too. We will try to help you the best way we can 🙂 -
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